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‘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.

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 Jules Verne’s classic adventure, and the many TV, stage and film adaptions of it.

What Ho! The Pestilence that Walketh in Darkness: On reading E.F. Benson instead of M.R. James at Christmas

The Last Gothic Novel: Stephen Carver looks at the book behind the musical.

“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.

Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: a tale of Revolution, alienation, and knitting. Sally Minogue gives some pointers.

“The very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn’t.” Mia Forbes looks at Tolstoy’s classic novella

Hard Times: For These Times: Sally Minogue reflects on hard times in 19th century England as reflected in Charles Dickens’ novel, and hard times now.