Hard Times
Published originally in weekly instalments, "Hard Times" is focusing on Mr Gradgrind's flawed model of upbringing and its lifelong impact on the wellbeing and destinies of his children. The novel, in fact, follows two opposing ways an individual can...
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Utopia
Utopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign.
Using the framework of a traveller'...
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Silas Marner
Silas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber. Silas loses his sweetheart, reputation, and as a result, has to move out of the town. He...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass cultivated himself to such an extent that the listeners of his lectures doubted if his narratives were true. His autobiography is both a compelling tale of a slave and a contribution to the public discourse on slavery. His language is poetic...
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Prince
"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are".
"The Prince" is generally labelled as a cynical and overly pragmatic account of gaining and retaining political power. It is a significant deviation from the righteous medita...
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Awakening
"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth".
"The Awakening" follows Edna Pontellier, a resident of coast...
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Gulliver's Travels
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old".
As a survivor of a shipwreck, Lemuel Gulliver encounters some entirely absurd things – at first, he is in the land of Lilliputians, the tiny men; but later he ventures to the land of the...
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Mrs Dalloway
"He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink".
"Mrs Dalloway" is a novel that features two main characters and two different worldviews. On the one...
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Life of Charlotte Bronte
"As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was comparatively well. The characters were her companions...
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Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
"Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them".
Behold: a selection of short stories from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe.
From the brilliant mind of a man responsible for popularising the genres of detective fiction and scien...
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