classics
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Sunday book pick: ‘In Youth is Pleasure’ is a whimsical bildungsroman about youthful curiosity
Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: ‘Sister Carrie’, published in 1900, predicted the individualism of urban life
Sayari Debnath
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How to read the classics in an age of distraction (and three short books to get you going)
Johanna Harris, The Conversation
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‘Closely Watched Trains’: The humour in Bohumil Hrabal’s 1965 novella is a response to ruination
Ravi Shankar Shukla
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Want to understand Honoré de Balzac? Try the game Dungeons and Dragons instead of literary theory
Harsh Trivedi, The Conversation
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George Eliot is best known for ‘Middlemarch’, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction
Jessica Murray, The Conversation
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Winnie‑the‑Pooh at 100: This much‑loved classic illustrates how books can boost our wellbeing
Lucy Stone, The Conversation
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Sunday book pick: RK Narayan’s autobiographical novel ‘The English Teacher’ mourns his wife’s death
Sayari Debnath
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The story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ needs a new translation for the #MeToo era
Alison Habens, The Conversation
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Jane Austen’s world ran on gossip – and she revelled in it
Anna Walker, The Conversation Jen Cole Wright, The Conversation
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Harper Lee’s unpublished stories are not ‘thrilling’ – but offer insight into a literary legend
Paul Giles, The Conversation
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‘The Leavenworth Case’ by Anna Katharine Green: The forgotten mother of detective fiction
Swati Daftuar
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Guide to the classics: Joseph Conrad’s 1900 novel ‘Lord Jim’ sees humanity’s darkness
Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
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For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
Nada Saadaoui, The Conversation
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‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ might have been inspired by author George Orwell’s fear of drowning
Nathan Waddell, The Conversation
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Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a dark parable about coercive control
Hannah Roche, The Conversation Katy Mullin, The Conversation
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‘Literature gives you something history can’t’: Editor Mini Krishnan on classic Indian stories
Mahika Dhar
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‘Mrs Dalloway’ at 100: Virginia Woolf’s timeless novel is a work of pandemic fiction
Anna Snaith, The Conversation
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Rethinking the classics: Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ is a rap battle
Joshua Forstenzer, The Conversation
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How to live through the end of the world: Read William Shakespeare’s play ‘Cymbeline’
Michael Newton, The Conversation