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Mia Forbes looks at Edith Wharton’s mercilessly frank view of 19th-century New York society.

David Stuart Davies looks at the first, and perhaps the finest, of Dostoevsky’s great novels.

Stefania Ciocia Goes Away with the Fairies at The Bridge Theatre

‘A little higher up, the Modern began’: Sally Minogue assesses Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel ‘Sanditon’, a venture into a new world.

David Stuart Davies looks at Mary Shelley’s ‘crucial early work of post-apocalyptic science fiction’.

Mia Forbes looks at Rudyard Kipling’s tale of a child growing up in India against the backdrop of ‘The Great Game’, the political conflict between Britain and Russia.

‘I have understanding as well as you’: Sally Minogue looks at the way Thomas Hardy’s ‘Jude the Obscure’ still has resonance in the 21st century.

David Stuart Davies looks at the life and work of the French master of the short story.

Melville and His Age: Henry Claridge looks at the life of the great American author.