One of the sublime joys in my life is the making of connections. I receive an inexpressible tingle of delight each time I discover a link between two – or more – things of which I hd previously known no such linkage. Not surprisingly, more often than not, at least one of the things I am able to connect is a book.
No one, other than perhaps a specialist in the literature of the period, who has read Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection would likely ever say that its rich Victorian English prose was “an easy read.” However few would ever think to revise it into a more present-day form […]