modern classic
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Orlando. He Was a Woman.
‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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A Woman in a House
Virginia Woolf writes in ‘To the Lighthouse’ about man and woman, the power one holds upon the other, the intimacy which binds them together. But…
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The Quartet of Unity and Dispersion in ‘Between the Acts’
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Between the Acts’ could be read and imagined as a play. But what does this say about its characters, who are plain to…
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House in the Light of Time
The story of a house that, unlike the Ramsays’ vacation house in ‘To the Lighthouse’, wasn’t lucky enough to have people return to it.
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Old Kind World, Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro’s titles are never straightforward, but this one has really been giving me headaches. It’s been more than 8 years since I read ‘Never…
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The Forms of Memory
Stevens, the unsympathetic butler in Kazuo lshiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ lives a life full of passion and belief. He’s just telling the story…
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