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Women Buying Flowers in the 1920s
Why do women buy flowers in fiction? Let’s ask Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner. They have different answers to give us.
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Katherine Mansfield – Something Hidden, Something Dark
How the dark and violent details of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories are hiding sparks of life.
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Katherine Mansfield Risks Everything
Awarenes of Katherine Mansfield’s personal rebellion and pursuit of freedom enhances the appreciation of her famous story The Garden Party
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Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Nostalgia”
“I will write not to construct a story, but to exorcise an obsession” (Mircea Cărtărescu, ‘The Twins’, one of the stories in ‘Nostalgia’)
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Books and Reading in Virginia Woolf’s Essays
How should one read a book? What is there to discover on an evening walk in the streets of London? Virginia Woolf comes up with…
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What the Big Deal about Katherine Mansfield Is
Katherine Mansfield is one of the best Modernist writers of the 20th century and, for many readers, still a discovery which needs to be made.
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How Literary Art Can Save Us
In ‘What is Art’ Tolstoy argues that real art insidiously carves a path into our souls and makes us better human beings.
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6 Hints on How to Read Challenging Books
Struggled with ‘Mrs Dalloway’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the like? I’ve been there. Let me show you how to read such books.
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How to Read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
D.H. Lawrence’s last novel, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, is a story of class and forbidden love, filled with explicit scenes of love-making and profane words. But…
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Stories of Tea – Comfort, Memory, Custom
I sure love my cup of tea. Maybe you do too. While enjoying your hot Darjeeling, Sencha or Oolong, have you ever thought about the…
leseriana in English
Book reviews and recommendations, literary analyses, forgotten literary treasures, hints and suggestions how to live a meaningful reader’s life. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote in English.
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