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Summer Will Show, Women in Revolution
In ’Summer Will Show’, Sylvia Townsend Warner writes two heroines, Sophia and Minna, who, in the heat of the 1848 Parisian revolution, break and remake…
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Blindness by José Saramago, an Allegory of Unseeing
In ‘Blindness’, José Saramago strips humanity of sight to expose its moral failures, but also its raw and tender unnamed insides.
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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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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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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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Sara Stridsberg and her Beckomberga
Sara Stridsberg’s ‘The Gravity of Love’ is the story of a father and daughter, as well as the story of Beckomberga, the former mental institution…
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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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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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