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Sally Minogue looks at Mrs Dalloway
BBC Radio 4 this week begins a 10-part reading of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Sally Minogue looks at the Modernist context as Woolf conceived and wrote her fourth novel.
Stefania Ciocia takes a look at Little Men
Home and away: Stefania Ciocia takes a look at the genesis of Alcott’s ‘Little Men’ (1871) and its place in the March family saga
David Stuart Davies looks at Lord Jim
‘You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends’. David Stuart Davies looks at Joseph Conrad’s tale of a man’s mission to gain redemption after an act of cowardice.
Sally Minogue looks at North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘North and South’ is well recognised as a radical novel about social and economic divisions. But might it also cast light on British imperialism? Sally Minogue looks at a rich and many-sided novel.
David Stuart Davies looks at Around the World in Eighty Days
David Stuart Davies looks at Jules Verne’s classic adventure, and the many TV, stage and film adaptions of it.
The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
What Ho! The Pestilence that Walketh in Darkness: On reading E.F. Benson instead of M.R. James at Christmas
Stephen Carver looks at The Phantom of the Opera
The Last Gothic Novel: Stephen Carver looks at the book behind the musical.
David Stuart Davies looks at Moonfleet
“And more than once I have stood rope in hand in that same awful place, and tried to save a struggling wretch; but never saw one come through the surf alive, in such a night as he saved me.” David Stuart Davies looks at a classic adventure story.
Sally Minogue looks at A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: a tale of Revolution, alienation, and knitting. Sally Minogue gives some pointers.