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““The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.” With To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf presents us with an examination on perspective and experience, built upon highly autobiographical scenes at a family retreat in the coast of Scotland. The novel deftly…
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““And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” Scott Fitzgerald is known as the definitive author of the Jazz Age – the glittering, alcohol-fuelled, and outrageously freewheeling era of post-war euphoria. The Great Gatsby in turn is seen as his magnum opus, as the peak of his artistry…
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““If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.” Emily Brontë stunned the world in 1847 with her wild and psychologically penetrating mix of romance and…
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““It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people.” The Wealth of Nations is according to many the foundational text of the discipline of economics,…
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Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” In Prague at the start of the 20th century, Josef K. finds himself involved in a strange legal process. The Trial presents the byzantine and bewildering journey K. is subjected to by the…
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Even for me, life had its gleams of sunshine.” Originally and tellingly titled Jane Eyre: an autobiography – the book follows the growth of the eponymous Jane Eyre from age ten to about thirty, and the story of her life. During the years she experiences more than a fair share of cruelty and misfortune, but…
