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Sally Minogue assesses Sanditon
‘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 The Last Man
David Stuart Davies looks at Mary Shelley’s ‘crucial early work of post-apocalyptic science fiction’.
Mia Forbes looks at Kim
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.
Sally Minogue looks at Jude the Obscure
‘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 Guy de Maupassant
David Stuart Davies looks at the life and work of the French master of the short story.
Herman Melville 200
Melville and His Age: Henry Claridge looks at the life of the great American author.
Primo Levi and Dante’s ‘Inferno’
Il Canto di Ulisse: Primo Levi’s ‘If This is a Man’ and Dante’s ‘Inferno’
Mia Forbes looks at The Odyssey
Time in the Odyssey – Mia Forbes looks at the second epic ancient Greek poem attributed to Homer
Sally Minogue looks at Daniel Deronda
In the bicentenary year of George Eliot’s birth, Sally Minogue looks at her final and most controversial novel, Daniel Deronda.