Fading Memories

By Charles Dickens on Tuesday December 31, @04:28PM
You know what? I'd never actually read this one before. Like everybody who's ever been obliged to watch the telly on Christmas eve or Christmas day, I've seen the various televised plays, the movies and the Disney cartoon. But reading, that's another matter. Funny really, how Disney persists in stealing really good stories, thereby pushing the original over the brink into oblivion. If someone did to Disney, what Disney did to Dickens, he'd be sued to an inch of his life.

• Author: Charles Dickens
• In: Christmas Books
• Publisher: Collins Clear-Type Press
• Published: Ca. 1900
• Place: London & Glasgow
• Pages: 486

I'm not sure when my copy of Christmas Books was published; it doesn't contain an introduction, neither by Dickens himself, nor by a later editor. I guess about 1900, though, give or take twenty or thirty years either way. I'm reader who has a lot of books, not a bibliophile, I'm afraid.

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By Samual Pepys
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on November 03, 2003

I have two editions of Pepys famous diary; that is to say, I have got two volumes from the Everyman edition, and I've got the Concise Pepys Diary. The Everyman isn't complete, of course, and it wouldn't be complete even if I had all volumes. The Concise Pepys is a cheap Wordsworth reprint of the original 1825 abridged publication.

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By Arthur Waley
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on September 11, 2003

As Dorothy L. Sayers has a woman say in Gaudy Night, once I was a scholar. I went to the University of Leyden to study sinology, capping my studies with an attempt at comparative linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area. During my five years in Leyden, I acquired, amongst others, this translation of the Analects. I never quite got round to reading it — I always preferred Mencius to Confucius.

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By Ξενοφον
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on May 15, 2003

It is seldom that I read a classic work from beginning to end, every page without skipping. The Anabasis is one such work. It's the story of how the author, Xenophon, managed to get command of ten thousand Greek soldiers (and their slaves, wives, boyfriends and cattle) and lead them around Anatolia back to Greece.

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By Boëthius
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on March 26, 2003

It's Lent, and I thought I'd give this book another try. And again I foundered.

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By Homeros
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on March 15, 2003

A fresh an fun read about a ferocious battle.

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By Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on February 04, 2003

I've already done a review of the text of Vegetius Epitoma Rei Militaris, so this is merely a review of the Dutch translation by Fik Meijer, Professor Oude Geschiedenis at the University of Amsterdam.

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