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Month: October 2016

Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone: A cornerstone in the development of crime fiction

David Stuart Davies looks at ‘The first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels’.

Not Your Average Halloween Read: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’

Fans of vintage horror will find that this short story holds its own against Edgar Allan Poe’s most terrifying tales. Stefania Ciocia has a closer look for us.

Villette re-imagined.

‘As the play got into its stride’, says Sally Minogue, ‘I began to see that it was indeed true to the central spirit of Villette, and especially true to Lucy Snowe’.