"Orlando Figes rightfully says of "War and Peace" (the title itself, of course, a reputation per se) "a wonderful affirmation of human life". Hear! Hear!"
"Chinua Achebe, one of African literature's greatest sons, here tells the story of a colonial past how it should be told - by the native: the repressed representation of a lost way of life."
"Like "To the Lighthouse" and company, the publication of Dalloway signalled an utter rejection of Edwardian and Victorian literary values. It was the ushering in of the Modernist movement."
"In the unfortunate, yet understandable, shadow of "Karenina" and W&P, "The Death" is a remarkably haunting quasi-short story. A terrifying tale, sometimes overlooked as the tour de force it is."
"Sometimes this play does not receive the deserved acknowledgement due - it is one of the most important plays of the 20th Century and the first of the late Pinter; a pioneer: a modern Shakespeare."
