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As January ends, I say farewell to that angel in gaiters, Mr. Pickwick.
Thing is, Mr. Pickwick himself was not all that important to the story. The villains set against him weren’t all that interesting, really (though Alfred Jingle was okay in small doses). Given the real villains were a pair...
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Was Modernism Meant to Keep the Working Classes Out?
In the 19th century, more working class readers started partaking in contemporary fiction. Modernist literature, however, was specifically not for them.
The first working-class libraries, which originated in Scotland, concentrated on religious books. Some banned fiction outright; into the early nineteenth century,...
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Charles Dickens didn’t start writing with Pickwick Papers — his first published pieces were short “sketches” that ran in newspapers and other periodicals, and then compiled in Sketches by Boz. While I mainly focus on Dickens’s novels, Dickens would continue to write these short pieces throughout his career,...
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As mentioned in my War and Peace post, I have a new book project for this year – and that’s going to be covering a Dickens novel each month, in chronological order of publication.
Now, Dickens had 15 novels, and I plan on only doing 12. Which will I...
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I provide my extended critique of War and Peace. Nutshell: - it is an important book that people should read - it's not boring, but it's not enjoyable in that one can't really like any of the characters, because I don't think Tolstoy liked any of his charactersby meep
I look at Dostoevsky's book The Gambler - a novella looking at the effects that obsessive gambling has on people (among other things).by meep
I look at the Renaissance Popes as profiled in Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly.by meep
I review Yevgeny Zamyatin's sci-fi dystopia We, and there's a bonus video of a fancy new toy we've got.by meep
One has often heard of the mystery niche called “cozies”.
Cozy mysteries, also referred to as “cozies”, are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Cozies thus stand...
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Two important books are currently free in kindle format on Amazon, until Saturday, September 2:
TO BUILD A CASTLE BY VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
I’ve reviewed this book in a few posts:
Never Forget: Thoughts on To Build A Castle – a Dissident Memoir by Vladimir Bukovsky
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