english literature
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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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Pride & Prejudice – How to Be Bold
Jane Austen’s must-read classic ‘Pride & Prejudice’ is more than the most romantic love story of all times. It is a guidebook for how to…
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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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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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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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