Very sorry to Miss Anne but she does not have the juice her sister Emily did.

Oh the misogyny... the racism....... I can respect his prose but I do not respect him.

The indomitable spirit of humankind (although I think Hemingway would say “of man”) is captured so beautifully in this short novel. What drives us to achieve? Is it pride or is it something more ancient, more innate, coded into our genes?