Joseph Piercy

Any written history is, to some degree, defined as much by what it chooses to omit as it is by what it chooses to include.

The great Russian/American novelist Vladimir Nabokov asserted in his famous essay Good Readers and Good Writers that ‘one cannot read a book: one can only reread it’.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’

Readers and Good Writers th

‘She wanted to die but she also wanted to live in Paris.’

It is important to stick to your principles no matter what life throws at you.

It is important to stick to your principles no matter what life throws at you.

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.’

The Spanish word for cholera is cólera, which has a dual meaning. As well as the disease that provides the background setting for the novel, cólera can also mean passionate anger

The stubborn sins of pride and prejudice can jeopardize the chance of happiness and fulfilment of the heart’s desires.