Showing posts with label usedbuyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usedbuyer. Show all posts

Thursday, July 07, 2011

On the Superiority of the Fairer Sex

And, yet another selection from the great Thack.


--Usedbuyer2.0

Thursday, June 23, 2011

One Last Response to the Wall Street Journal Dustup

Our beloved UsedBuyer2.0 has his own take on Meghan Cox Gurdon's anti-YA piece.

Mrs. Humphry Ward on Sensational Fiction, Sufferage, and the Servant Problem

Contemporary fiction for domestics & humble persons is rife with explicit abuse, violence and depravity. Why is this considered a good idea?

Mrs. Albert Bunthorn-Pandowdy, wife and mother of thirteen, recently stood amidst the cheap paper novel section of her local commercial library, in Minge Lane, Worcestershire, feeling thwarted and disheartened.
More where that came from.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Age of Wisdom, by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Sorrows of Werther, by William Makepeace Thackeray

tell all your friends!