classics
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Passion, integrity and self-reliance: Why Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a heroine for our times
Matthew Sussman, The Conversation
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One hundred years of ‘The Great Gatsby’: The magnetic resonance of F Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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Jane Austen at 250: Shashi Deshpande on the ‘perfect artist’ who reinvented the novel
Shashi Deshpande
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Sunday book pick: A band of single women make sense of changing world order in 1853 novel ‘Cranford’
Sayari Debnath
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Why you should revisit the classics, even if you did not like them at school
Johanna Harris, The Conversation
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How a Henry James novel helps explain the fascination with murder suspect Luigi Mangione
Max Chapnick, The Conversation
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How global pandemics shaped ‘A Passage to India’, EM Forster’s final novel
Chris Mourant, The Conversation
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Why should we read the classics? To slow down. And to appreciate our cultural and social diversity
Srinivas Reddy
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Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Gyan Ka Gyan’, by Hridaynarayan Dikshit
Hridaynarayan Dikshit
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‘He gives life to all gods’: Krishna and his wife Satyabhama’s story from Murty Classical Library
Nandi Timmana Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Velcheru Narayana Rao
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A new book of classical Indian literature shows the connections between various literary traditions
Srinivas Reddy
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Italy’s far-right claim ‘The Lord of the Rings’ – but they’ve misread JRR Tolkien’s message
Tom Emanuel, The Conversation
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What is intelligence? For the longest time, Western literature has suggested it may be a liability
Richard van Oort, The Conversation
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‘Dangerous Pursuits’ retells ‘The Ramayana’ and ‘The Tempest’ as a social critique of modern times
Saloni Sharma
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If you loved Homer’s Greek epic ‘The Odyssey’, here are five other books you might want to read
Rachel Bryant Davies, The Conversation
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What makes the ‘Hitopadesha’ a timeless text on human behaviour? It is its playful language
Shonaleeka Kaul
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Ulysses at 100: why James Joyce was so obsessed with the perfect blue cover
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, The Conversation
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When classic stories get reinvented, can they ever be a success? Five get reviewed
Hetta Howes, The Conversation
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Born 200 years ago, what is Fyodor Dostoevsky telling us today through his novels?
Richard Herrett
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Marquis de Sade wrote violent pornographic fiction. I translated his only gothic novel into English
Will McMorran, The Conversation