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The Most Dangerous Woman Jane Austen Ever Created: Why Lady Susan Still Feels Shockingly Modern

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Jane Austin’s Lady Susan is a wonderful little book that casts a significant shadow (for something so "thin"). What...

The Book Every Tyrant Hopes You Never Read: George Orwell’s Animal Farm

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Authors write many books to entertain or inform us. In contrast, there are a select few that linger on...

Gulliver’s Travels: The Great Adventure That Secretly Exposes the Absurdity of Humanity

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Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels has been published for more than 300 years since it was originally published in 1726....

Where Nonsense Meets Genius: The Enduring Enigma of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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A small number of works of literature throughout history have ever so skilfully blurred and confused the boundaries between...

A World Trapped in Red Tape and Debt: Rethinking Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit

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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is more than just a piece of fiction; it presents ideas and actions about...

What Happens When Facts Replace Feelings? Dickens Answers in Hard Times

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Charles Dickens' Hard Times is a very concise but incisively well-written book that reflects criticism toward industrial society in...
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The Wickedly Humorous Teenage Writings of Jane Austen before Pride and Prejudice

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Some books help you learn to read about the author; others allow you to actually hear the author's presence....

Behind the Hedge: J.K. Rowling’s Dark Autopsy of a Small Town

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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling demonstrates her freedom from genre constraints. In this novel, she has taken a...

When Ghosts Gossip: Dickens’s Haunted House as a Comedy of Fear and Fellowship

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There are quite a few ghost stories, and then there is The Haunted House, which is a machine created...

Malgudi’s Charming Rogue: Gossip, Identity, and the Quiet Sting of Narayan’s The Talkative Man

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R.K. Narayan’s "The Talkative Man" conveys the sentiments of friendship through the voice of its central character, the titular...