Books
Matilda has read a variety of books, especially at the age of four, when she read many books in six months:
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Gone to Earth by Mary Webb
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
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“There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may be nothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only.”
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