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Stephen Carver looks at Orlando
‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’ – Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’
David Stuart Davies looks at The Old Curiosity Shop
David Stuart Davies looks at Dickens’s fourth novel, containing his familiar mix of comedy and drama.
Sally Minogue looks at D.H. Lawrence
Sally Minogue picks a path through ‘The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence’
Angels in the poetry of William Blake
Angels in the poetry of William Blake by Mia Forbes
Sally Minogue looks at The Great Gatsby
In the year when Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is released from American copyright, Sally Minogue considers the novel’s seductive power.
Stephen Carver on Huckleberry Finn
The First Great American Novel
Stephen Carver looks at Tom Sawyer
‘Church ain’t shucks to a circus’: Tom Sawyer and the literature of subversion.
Sally Minogue looks at The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Woodlanders’ is currently being serialised on BBC Radio 4. Sally Minogue looks at one of Hardy’s lesser-known novels.
Stephen Carver writes about Professor Challenger
Dinosaurs, Disintegration Machines and Talking to the Dead: The Wild World of Professor Challenger.