Tony: ten novels and the feelings they evoked

1.    Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas by Walter Pater – enjoyment, absorption, sadness

2.    The magic mountain by Thomas Mann – sense of space, fear, awe

3.    A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens – tenderness, fear

4.    Tom’s midnight garden by Philippa Pearce – wistfulness, tenderness, longing, sense of intermingling of past and present

5.    Dubin’s lives by Bernard Malamud – enjoyment (of the richness of the narrative, the descriptions of nature, and the exploration of close human relationships)

6.    War and peace by Leo Tolstoy – fascination, admiration (for the ingenuity and range of the narrative), absorption (in the lives of the various characters)

7.    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf – excitement, curiosity, sadness, amusement

8.    To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf – tenderness, sadness, grief, a positive response to the end of the novel (for expressing the quality of the Ramseys’ relationship).

9.    Resurrection by William Gerhardie – wistfulness, amusement, sense of breadth (of time and location).

10. In search of lost time by Marcel Proust [still trying to read this!] – fascination, tenderness, reflection