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David Stuart Davies looks at Tom Jones
David Stuart Davies looks at another great comic novel, Henry Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’.
David Stuart Davies looks at Tristram Shandy
This unique and extraordinary novel has entertained readers since its first publication in 1759. David Stuart Davies takes up the story.
Private passions and Italian families
Stefania Ciocia takes a sideways look at Dante
Mia Forbes looks at The Karamazov Brothers
The Devil is in the Details: Mia Forbes looks at Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, considered by many to be his finest.
Stephen Carver looks at Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stephen Carver looks at Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of ‘the duality of man’.
Sally Minogue looks at Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier
‘At least I could go amongst these people, see what their lives were like’: Sally Minogue looks at George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier.
Janet Brown looks at The Descent of Man
On the 150th anniversary of its publication, Janet Browne looks at the initial controversy over Charles Darwin’s ‘The Descent of Man’ and its subsequent political consequences
‘It’s a Sin’
As ‘It’s a Sin’ comes to the end of its run on Channel 4, and we celebrate LGBTQ+ History month, Sally Minogue looks at the sometimes hidden history of diverse sexualities in literature.
Dante 2021 and the hills we climb
Stefania Ciocia basks in the light of two radiant literary visions