Something Korean

In an alternative universe of 1832, against the background of a great house of Sir Willoughby, a distant, cruel cousin makes the young heroines go through abusive hardships and fearful tears are wept on the way, until the situation radically changes and comforting words and plucky, adventurous actions take us through to the very end.

You can compare The Spider Grandmother of the American Navajo and Hopi, with this book’s author Hugh Casson, who became a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge in 1928. He became a prestigious Director of Architecture for the Festival of Britain at 38, in 1951. A prolific architect, he made a bestseller out of his book Hugh Casson’s Oxford. As with it, in Hugh Casson’s Cambridge he has saved bi..