Review Index

Full list of all the books I've reviewed and the poems I've posted on Vintage Novels, arranged alphabetically by author.

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--A--

Abbott Abbott, Edward

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Adams, Douglas

• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Alcott, Lousia May

• The Chase

Anderson, Poul

• The High Crusade

Anonymous

• The Village Choir (poem)

Anstey, F

• Vice Versa

Ariosto, Ludovico

• Orlando Furioso

Ashford, Daisy

• The Young Visiters

Athanasius, Saint

• On the Incarnation

Augustine, Saint

• The City of God

Austen, Jane

• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility
• Article: Misunderstanding Mr Darcy
• Emma
• Mansfield Park 
• Persuasion

Awdry, Rev W

• The Railway Series (Thomas the Tank Engine)

Ayres, Ruby M

• The Phantom Lover

--B--

Ballantyne, RM

• Hunted and Harried: A Tale of the Covenanters

Barclay, Florence L

• The Rosary
• The Following of the Star

Barfield, Owen

• History in English Words

Bartlett, WB

• Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom
  

Belloc, Hilaire

• Joan of Arc
• Tarantella (poem) 

Benedict, Emily Ann

• Only Angels Are Bulletproof

The Bible, Authorised Version

Blackmore, RD

• Lorna Doone

Boldrewood, Rolf

•  Robbery Under Arms

Borges, Jorge Luis

• Labyrinths

Brackett, Leigh

• Black Amazon of Mars

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

• Lady Audley's Secret

Braddon, Russell

• Nancy Wake

Bradstreet, Anne

• Verses Upon the Burning of Our House (poem)

Brahms, Caryl

• No Bed for Bacon

Bronte, Charlotte

• Jane Eyre (2011 film)
• Jane Eyre

Broster, DK

•  The Flight of the Heron

 Bruce, Mary Grant

• The Billabong Series

Buchan, John

• Article: In Defence of Buchan
• The Thirty-Nine Steps
• Greenmantle
• Mr Standfast
• The Three Hostages
• Witch Wood
• Huntingtower (old review)
• The Shorter Catechism (Revised Version) (poem)
• Salute to Adventurers
• John Macnab
• Article: Providence and Greenmantle
• The Dancing Floor
• Huntingtower (re-read)
• Castle Gay 
• The House of the Four Winds 
• Sick Heart River

Bunyan, John

• The Pilgrim's Progress

Bulfinch, Thomas

• Bulfinch's Mythology

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

• Tarzan of the Apes 
• A Princess of Mars 

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

• The Corsair

--C--

Canfield, William W

• The Sign Above the Door

Chesterton, GK

• The Napoleon of Notting Hill
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• To Edmund Clerihew Bentley (poem)
• Greybeards At Play
• The Last Hero (poem)
• Mr Mandragon, the Millionaire (poem)
• The Club of Queer Trades
• The Paradoxes of Mr Pond
• The Strange Music (poem)
• A Marriage Song (poem)
• The Skeleton (poem)
• The Poet and the Lunatics
• The Secret of Father Brown
• Dolores Replies to Swinburne (poem)
• The Ball and the Cross
• Orthodoxy
• The Crusader Returns from Captivity (poem)
• The Ballad of the White Horse

Christie, Agatha

• The Secret of Chimneys
• The Man in the Brown Suit

Clarke, Marcus

• For the Term of His Natural Life

Collins, Suzanne

• The Hunger Games

Collodi, Carlo

• Pinnocchio

Colum, Padraic

• The Children's Homer

Comnena, Anna

• Alexiad

Crawforn, F Marion

• Marietta: A Maid of Venice

Cuppy, Will

• The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

--D--

Dalrymple, William

• From the Holy Mountain

The Detection Club

• The Floating Admiral

De Vries, Anne

• Journey Through the Night

Dickens, Charles

• Bleak House
• A Tale of Two Cities 

Dodge, Mary Mapes

• Hans Brinker, Or, The Silver Skates

Donne, John

• Holy Sonnet XIV (poem)
• Death Be Not Proud (poem)

Douglas, Marjorie

• Margaret's Story

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

• The Refugees
• The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

Duigon, Lee

• The Bell Mountain Series 1-4

du Maurier, Daphne

• Rebecca

Dumas, Alexandre

• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Three Musketeers

Lord Dunsany, Edward

• The King of Elfland's Daughter 

Dwyer, John

• The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War

--E--

Eco, Umberto

• The Name of the Rose

Eliot, TS

• The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (poem)
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Evans, Augusta Jane

• St Elmo

--F--

Falkner, J Meade

• Moonfleet

Farnol, Jeffrey

• Black Bartlemy's Treasure
• Martin Conisby's Vengeance
• The Broad Highway 

Feature Weeks

• John Buchan Week
• The Theology of Stories Week
• Really, Really Bad Novels Week
• Favourite Novelists Week
• Vintage Movies Week
• Le Morte D'Arthur Week
• JRR Tolkien Week
• Shakespeare Week
• The Faerie Queen Week
• Home Educated Authors Week

Foley, Elisabeth Grace

• Corral Nocturne

Freitag, Jennifer

• The Shadow Things 
• Plenilune

French, Allen

• The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow

--G--

Gaskell, Elizabeth

• Wives and Daughters
• North and South
  

Gilbert, WS

• The Savoy Operas

Goscinny and Uderzo

• The Adventures of Asterix the Gaul

Goudge, Elizabeth

• Smoky-House
• The Rosemary Tree
• The Castle on the Hill

Green, Roger Lancelyn

• King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

--H--

Haag, Michael

• The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

Haggard, Sir Henry Rider

• Nada the Lily
• The Brethren (abridged by Christian Liberty Press)
• Heart of the World
• Queen Sheba's Ring
• The Brethren (original)
• The People of the Mist
• The World's Desire (with Andrew Lang)

Hannam, James

• God's Philosophers

Hannula, Richard M

• Radiant: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History

Heffington, Rachel

• Fly Away Home
• Anon, Sir, Anon 

Henry, O

• The Heart of the West

Henty, GA

• Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades 
• Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars 
• The Dragon and the Raven, Or, the Days of King Alfred
• Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion

Hergé

• The Adventures of Tintin

Heyer, Georgette

• The Grand Sophy
• Behold, Here's Poison 

Hodgson, William Hope

• The Night Land

Holt, Emily S

• The Harvest of Yesterday
• Lady Sybil's Choice
  

Hope, Anthony

• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Article: Zenda Revisited

Horn, John J

• The Boy Colonel and Brothers at Arms 
• Secret of the Lost Settlement

Hugo, Victor

• Les Miserables 

Hunter, Norman

• The Professor Branestawm books 

--I--

--J--

Jerome, Jerome K

• Three Men in a Boat
• Stage-Land

Johns, WE

• The Biggles Series
• Champion of the Main
• Worrals of the WAAF

Johnston, Mary

• To Have and To Hold

Joinville, J and Villehardouin, G

• Chronicles of the Crusades

--K--

Kafka, Franz

• The Metamorphosis

Kaye, MM

• Death in the Andamans

Kempis, Thomas a

• The Imitation of Christ

Kinglake, William

• Eothen

Kipling, Rudyard

• Jane's Marriage (poem)
• Cold Iron (poem)
• The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book
• Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies 

--L--

Lamb, Charles and Mary

• Tales From Shakespeare

Lear, Edward

• The Jumblies (poem)

Leighton, Margaret

•  Journey for a Princess

Leroux, Gaston

• The Phantom of the Opera

Lewis, CS

• Article: Medieval Cosmology in the Chronicles of Narnia 
• Spirits in Bondage 
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010 film) 
• The Screwtape Letters
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Cliche Came Out of Its Cage (poem)
• Out of the Silent Planet
• Perelandra
• That Hideous Strength
• Hermione in the House of Paulina (poem)

Liang Yusheng

• Bai Fa Mo Nu Zhuan (The Legend of the White Haired Maiden)

Lindsay, Norman

• The Magic Pudding 

Lönnrot, Elias

• The Kalevala 

--M--

MacDonald, George

• The Princess and the Goblin
• The Wise Woman and Other Stories
• Phantastes 
• The Princess and the Goblin (re-read)
• The Princess and Curdie 
• Mary Marston

MacInnes, Helen

• Above Suspicion

Malory, Sir Thomas

• Le Morte D'Arthur (8-part series)

Marryat, Frederick

• The Privateersman

Masefield, John

• Poems

Mason, AEW

• The Four Feathers

 McAuley, James

• Credo (poem)
• Against the Dark (poem)
• The Convict and the Lady (poem) 
• An Art of Poetry (poem)
• One Tuesday in Summer (poem)
• Pieta (poem)
• In the Huon Valley (poem)
• Anonymous Message (poem)
• Tapestry (poem)

McCulley, Johnston

• The Curse of Capistrano (a.k.a. The Mark of Zorro)

Milne, AA

• The Old Sailor (poem)

Milton, John

• Comus

Montgomery, LM

• The Blue Castle 

Movie Reviews

• Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• Jane Eyre (2011)
• The Mark of Zorro
• Bringing Up Baby
• The Thin Man
• The Quiet Man
• The Lady Vanishes
• The General
• El Cid
• Cinderella (2015)
• The Legend of Tarzan

--N--

Norton, Andre

• Huon of the Horn

Norwich, John Julius

• A Short History of Byzantium

--O--

O'Connor, Flannery

•  Everything That Rises Must Converge

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska

• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Eldorado

--P--

Paterson, AB 'Banjo'

• Happy Dispatches
• Johnson's Antidote (poem)
• Mulga Bill's Bicycle (poem)

Paton, John G

• Autobiography

Peterson, Andrew

• On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness and North! Or Be Eaten

Pope, Elizabeth Marie

• The Perilous Gard

Porter, Gene Stratton

• Freckles

Pyle, Howard

• Men of Iron 

--Q--

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur ("Q")

• The Splendid Spur

--R--

Ransome, Arthur

• The Swallows and Amazons Series

Reid, PR

• The Colditz Story

Richardson, Henry Handel

• The Getting of Wisdom

Richmond, Grace S

• The Twenty-Fourth of June

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

• When a Man Marries
• Long Live the King!

Rosetti, Christina

• The First Spring Day (poem)
• In Progress (poem)
• Cried Out With Tears (poem)
• Uphill (poem) 
• Goblin Market
• L.E.L. (poem) 

Rossano, Rachel

• Duty and Wren

Rostand, Edmond

• Cyrano de Bergerac  

Ryle, JC

• Holiness 

--S--

Sabatini, Rafael

• Captain Blood
• The Magnificent Bardelys
• Bardelys the Magnificent 2
• Fortune's Fool
• The Gates of Doom
• The Black Swan
• Bellarion
• The Sea Hawk

Salgari, Emilio

• The Black Corsair

Sayers, Dorothy L

• Murder Must Advertise
• Strong Poison
• The Matter of Brittany (poem)
• White Magic (poem)

Sellar and Yeatman

• 1066 And All That

Scott, Sir Walter

• Ivanhoe
• The Talisman
• Quentin Durward
• The Bride of Lammermoor
• Anne of Geierstein
• Guy Mannering
• Count Robert of Paris

Scotus, John Duns

• Untitled poem

Shakespeare, William

• Romeo and Juliet
• Measure for Measure
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Othello
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Richard II
• Henry IV, Part 1
• Henry IV, Part 2
• Henry V
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Henry VI, Part 1
• Henry VI, Part 2
• Henry VI, Part 3
• Richard III

Shaw, George Bernard

• Pygmalion

Sheldon, Mrs Georgie

• The Masked Bridal

Shellabarger, Samuel

•  Lord Vanity

Sheridan, RB

• The School for Scandal and The Critic

Shute, Nevil

• So Disdained

Sidney, Sir Philip

• The Defense of Poesy

Southey, Robert

• His Books (poem)

Spenser, Edmund

• Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves
• Sonnet LXXIX (poem)
• The Faerie Queene Book I, Holiness
• The Faerie Queene Book II, Temperance
• The Faerie Queene Book III, Chastity
• The Faerie Queene Book IV, Friendship
• The Faerie Queene Book V, Justice
• The Faerie Queene Book VI, Courtesy

Sproul Jr, RC

• When You Rise Up

Spyri, Johanna

• Heidi

Stark, Rodney

• God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades

Stengl, Anne Elisabeth

• Heartless, Veiled Rose, and Moonblood

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• The Black Arrow

Stewart, Mary

• The Moon-spinners, The Ivy Tree, Nine Coaches Waiting, Touch Not the Cat, This Rough Magic, Thunder on the Right, Airs Above the Ground, Madam, Will You Talk?
• My Brother Michael (at Goodreads)  

Stoker, Bram

• Dracula

Sutcliff, Rosemary

• The Queen Elizabeth Story
• The Rider of the White Horse

Sutter, Julie

• The Princess Adelina

Symington, William

• Messiah the Prince

--T--

Tarkington, Booth

• Gentle Julia
• The Magnificent Ambersons

Tasso, Torquato

• Jerusalem Delivered

Tennyson, Alfred

• The Idylls of the King

Tey, Josephine

• The Daughter of Time

Thackeray, William Makepeace

• The Rose and the Ring

Tolkien, JRR

• The Hobbit
• The Hobbit 2
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Lord of the Rings 2
• The Silmarillion
• The Lays of Beleriand
• Leaf by Niggle
• Article: Tolkien's Burning Bush
• Farmer Giles of Ham
• The Fall of Arthur 
• The Mewlips (poem)

Tolstoy, Leo

• Anna Karenina

Trease, Geoffrey

• The Seas of Morning
• The Snared Nightingale

Trollope, Anthony

• The Warden
• Barchester Towers
• Doctor Thorne
• Framley Parsonage  
• The Small House at Allington
• The Last Chronicle of Barset
• The Way We Live Now

Tyerman, Christopher (ed)

• Chronicles of the First Crusade

--U--

Unknown Author

• Beowulf (review)
• Beowulf (comparative review: trans Heaney, Rebsamen, Wilson, Tolkien)
• Njal's Saga
• The Saga of the Volsungs 
• The Song of Roland (trans. Dorothy Sayers)
• The Mabinogion
• The Song of the Cid (trans. Burton Raffel)
• The Elder Edda (trans. Andy Orchard)

Updike, John

• Seven Stanzas at Easter (poem) 

--V--

Verne, Jules

• Around the World in Eighty Days

Von Armin, Elizabeth

• The Enchanted April

--W--

Wallace, Edgar

• The Four Just Men 

Wallace, Lew

• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ward, Michael

• Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of CS Lewis

Watson, Winifred

• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Waugh, Evelyn

• Brideshead Revisited

Webster, Jean

• Daddy-Long-Legs

Webster, John

• The Duchess of Malfi

Weiland, KM

•  Dreamlander

Welch, Ronald

• Knight Crusader
• Captain of Dragoons
• Tank Commander
• Mohawk Valley
• Escape from France
• Nicholas Carey
• Ensign Carey

Weyman, Stanley J

• A Gentleman of France
• Under the Red Robe

White, Ethel Lina

• Some Must Watch
• The Wheel Spins, aka The Lady Vanishes

Widdemer, Margaret

• The Rose-Garden Husband

Willans, Geoffrey and Searle, Ronald

• Down With Skool!

Willemse, YK

• Rafen

Williams, Charles

• Descent Into Hell
• All Hallows' Eve 
• Witchcraft

Wilson, ND

• Leepike Ridge, The 100 Cupboards, Notes From the Tilt-A-Whirl, The Ashtown Burials
• Boys of Blur

Wodehouse, PG

• Right Ho, Jeeves
• The Code of the Woosters
• Laughing Gas
• Untitled Poem
• Louder and Funnier
• Bachelors Anonymous
• Psmith, Journalist
• The Happy Marriage (poem)
• Leave It to Psmith
• Do Butlers Burgle Banks?

Wren, PC

• Beau Geste
• Beau Sabreur

--X--

--Y--

Yonge, Charlotte

• The Heir of Redclyffe
• The Dove in the Eagle's Nest

--Z--