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At the start of a short series of blogs on three nineteenth-century Russian novels, Sally Minogue considers their powerful ongoing appeal. The Golden Age of Russian Literature I have mentioned in an earlier blog on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov the fascination that the great Russian novels of the nineteenth-century exerted on me as a… Read More

Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at one of Henry James’ best-known works. What does a Henry James novella and Percy Bysshe Shelley have in common?  Well, an anecdote related to the latter inspired the former.  Whilst staying with friends in Florence during 1887, Henry James recorded in his Notebooks a story he had heard concerning Claire… Read More