english literature
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Dorian Gray’s Life & Art
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a piece of classic gothic literature, but it’s also a portrait of how intricately life & art are entwined…
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Happy Returns to and in ‘Great Expectations’
Returning to ‘Great Expectations’, I read Pip’s journey of self-discovery as a dark novel of making sense of a past which slips further away.
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Creature and Creation in ‘Frankenstein’ and 19th Century Horror
‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. True terror can only lie in classic 19th century horror.
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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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Dear Reader of Jacob’s Room
Your annotated copy of Viriginia Woolf’s ‘Jacob’s Room’ ended up on my bookshelf. Thank you for enriching my reading.
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