Nothing Remains the Same

"Revisiting her favorite books after the passage of twenty or thirty years, Wendy Lesser is stirred by the changes she finds - in the books, in herself, and in the wider world. If Nothing Remains the Same is a book about reading, it is also a book about time, with rereading as a special form of time travel.". "From classic novels such as Anna Karenina and The Portrait of a Lady to a charming tale for young adults called I Capture the Castle, from nonfiction by George Orwell and Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth and Milton, from the deeply American Huckleberry Finn to works in translation…