20th century
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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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Sounds of London in ‘Mrs Dalloway’
In Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, the sounds of London rise from its streets and blend past and present.
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The Darkness of ‘The Secret Agent’
Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Secret Agent’ is a dark novel of human despair set in the muddy streets of early 20th century London.
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Animal Farm (or, How Stories Make the World)
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” shows that you need only one thing to start a dictatorship: aggressive storytelling.
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‘The Waves’ – A Flower with Six Petals
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves is a tapestry of feelings and perceptions, knit together by 6 friends, a 7th absent one and a narrator who seems…
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How to Read Virginia Woolf’s Diaries
“Either I am a great writer or a nincompoop” (Virginia Woolf’s diaries, 29th October 1922)
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Virginia Woolf, the Common Reader?
Virginia Woolf comments on her reading in the second volume of ‘The Common Reader’, published in 1932.
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Children and Parents in ‘To the Lighthouse’
This fourth time reading Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ revealed to me the depths in the relations between children and parents.
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The House of Memory
‘A Sketch of the Past’ is one of Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical writings which gives us a sense of the writer’s childhood.
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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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