Unlit Lamp
Digitally narrated using a synthesized voice

Radclyffe Hall is one of my guilty pleasures. I just can't resist those honest, intense, miserable lesbians. The Unlit Lamp is the usual early 20th-Century tale of gay women who sacrifice their happiness to satisfy the wants and expectations of others, resulting in unhappiness all round and painful......more

Exquisitely written. Completely depressing. I loved it.......more

El título original que Radclyffe Hall dio a Casi un amor fue The Unlit Lamp; no suelo entrar en la cuestión de la traducción de títulos, pero en este caso me ha llamado la atención, y no porque piense que esta no refleje, aunque sea en parte, la esencia del libro, sino porque creo que el original en......more

My second outing reading Radclyffe Hall (I had previously read the infamous The Well of Loneliness) and as with the other novel, I loved this book. So much feels preordained as the novel begins, but it's a page-turner nonetheless. Grappling head-on with the subjugation of women (within their own fam......more