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Stephen Carver looks at Treasure Island
Gentlemen o’ Fortune and Boys Smart as Paint: Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’
Shelley and the Peterloo Massacre
On the 202nd anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, Sally Minogue looks at Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetic responses to it.
Stephen Carver looks at Moby Dick – Part Two
“From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale”
Stephen Carver looks at Moby Dick – Part One
‘One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world’: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
Sally Minogue looks at W.B. Yeats’ Collected Poems
In the centenary year of Irish Partition, Sally Minogue looks at The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats in the light of the poet’s relationship to Irish history and identity.
David Stuart Davies looks at The Awakening
David Stuart Davies looks at Kate Chopin’s influential novel, first published in 1899.
Mia Forbes looks at Silas Marner
Mia Forbes looks at George Eliot’s (Mary Anne Evans) third novel.
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.