20th century
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The Waves, Virginia Woolf’s Most Challenging Novel
With ‘The Waves’, Virginia Woolf completes the experiment she began in ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’: how much life can the novel hold?
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To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s Most Personal Novel
Virginia Woolf writes in ‘To the Lighthouse’ about ghosts of the past, her mother and father, the power one holds upon the other but also…
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Spanish Literature in 4 Voices
Looking to explore Spanish literature beyond the well-known names? Here are 4 authors who each offer a different view of postwar Spain and life’s quiet…
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Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s Most-Read Novel
Virginia Woolf wrote with ‘Mrs Dalloway’ one of the most read and most enduring novels of the 20th century. But what makes her novel so…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being and a Dog Named Karenin
Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a strangely readable heavy novel about chance encounters, the weight of destiny and a dog named Karenin.
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Love, Loss and Winter in the Air
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s 1938 collection Winter in the Air is the perfect book to pick up at the turn of season.
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The Beautiful Difficulty of ‘The Heat of the Day’
Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Heat of the Day’ is a beautifully atmospheric novel, with dense prose and fragmented storytelling which require and reward patience.
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Other Worlds, Same Hauntings
Nadezhda Teffi’s anthology of short stories ‘Other Worlds’ has opened my eyes to a hidden gem of Russian literature.
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Great Italian Short Stories
If there’s something which sets Italian short stories apart from other literatures of the world it’s this: they burn with a barely contained fire.
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Christmas Ghost Stories at the Hearth
This is the third year of what is already becoming a well-established tradition in my reading year – reading ghost stories for Christmas.
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