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Month: February 2022

Mia Forbes takes up the story of Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit

‘This is not the republic I came to see; this is not the republic of my imagination. Charles Dickens’ visit to America in 1842 did not go well, and his disillusionment showed in his next novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. Mia Forbes takes up the story. “The curse of our house”, said the old man, looking kindly… Read More

The Nobel Prize in Literature

As the Committee of the Swedish Academy put the Nobel Prizes for 2021 behind them and begin to consider the nominations for 2022, Sally Minogue looks at some of the past winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Adam Bede

Published in 1859, ‘Adam Bede’ was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans, writing under her pen name George Eliot. David Stuart Davies takes up the story.