Le Carré Uncovered?

October 19: “I never knew my mother till I was twenty-one. I act like a gent but I am wonderfully badly born. My father was a confidence trickster and a jailbird.”

Mighty Melville

October 18: “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”  

Checkmate!

October 17: “Soviet authorities must have been baffled by this kid from Brooklyn who marched toward them inexplicably, like the force of capitalism itself. Worse, he became popular in Russia,…”  

Longbourn

Belowstairs with the Bennets.  Jo Baker’s servants-eye-view of Pride & Prejudice uncovers a yearning love story  in the lives of those who invisibly attend Austen’s upper-crust lovers.