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David Stuart Davies looks at The Thirty-Nine Steps
David Stuart Davies looks at the first modern spy thriller.
Thirty-Nine Steps
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, B.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot…
Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’
‘The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations’ (Count Leo Tolstoy) In this final…
Book of the Week: Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first published but second written novel. Denis Hanrahan Wells takes up the story. She initially began writing it at the age of nineteen under…
Elizabeth Gaskell and ‘Wives and Daughters’
Denise Hanrahan Wells looks at Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel Elizabeth Gaskell died in 1865 leaving behind a wide range of works – novels, novellas, short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Her…
Book of the Week: Bleak House
Keep out of Chancery… it’s like being ground to bits in a slow mill; it’s like being roasted at a slow fire; it’s being stung to death by single bees;…
Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear
Although also an artist and composer, Edward Lear is deservedly best-known for his nonsense in all its many forms: songs, stories, poems, drawings, recipes, alphabets and limericks, a form which…
Empire
‘I shall try to fly by those nets’: Sally Minogue offers a final reflection on literature and Empire. If we needed a reminder of the ability of the British to…
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë (1820-1849), the sister of Charlotte and Emily, was the youngest of six children and is best known for her novels 'Agnes Grey' and 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'.