modern classics
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Thomas Hardy’s ‘Jude the Obscure’ (1895) criticised university elitism. It still rings true today
Shelley Galpin, The Conversation
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Sunday book pick: The melodrama of unequal marriages in W Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Merry-Go-Round’
Sayari Debnath
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Living without the magnifying glass: A reflection on Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel, ‘Zorba the Greek’
R Sivakumar
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Sunday book pick: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by JD Salinger, a novel I have read 11 times
Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: The dangers of self-absorption in ‘Nothing But the Night’ by John Williams
Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: In Marilynne Robinson’s novel ‘Housekeeping,’ a family falls through the cracks
Sayari Debnath
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Seize the day: Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ turns one hundred
Naomi Milthorpe, The Conversation
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‘Catch-22’: Joseph Heller’s great antiwar novel whose barbs are still true, even in times of peace
Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation
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Sunday book pick: Being young and bored in Carson McCullers’s novel ‘The Member of the Wedding’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Glass Pearls’: This novel by a Jewish writer is about a Nazi fearing the net closing in on him
Jai Arjun Singh