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Mia Forbes looks at The Death of Ivan Ilyich
“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
Sally Minogue reflects on Hard Times
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.
J.S. Le Fanu and the Golden Age of the Ghost Story
Stephen Carver looks at the work of the influential Irish author.
Halloween – The Night of Dark Spirits
David Stuart Davies selects some titles that suit All Hallows’ Eve
Stephen Carver looks at The Time Machine
‘Heirs to the Ages’ – ‘The Time Machine’, History, and the Class War
Mia Forbes looks at The Poetry of Oscar Wilde
“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.” Mia Forbes looks at the poetry of Oscar Wilde.
Sally Minogue looks at The Canterbury Tales
On National Poetry Day, Sally Minogue salutes the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, and his seminal work, ‘The Canterbury Tales’.
Mia Forbes looks at the poetry of Christina Rossetti
“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.” Mia Forbes looks the poetry of Christina Rossetti.
Steven Carver looks at The Island of Dr. Moreau
‘Are we not Men?’ – Evolution and Degeneration on ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’