Revisiting Fyodor Dostoevsky’s compelling, original and scandalous novel – after a 60-year hiatus – is a profoundly affecting experience.
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The show is based on Verne’s classic novel
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But unlike the book, the series is derivative, didactic and not very deep.
There is a long tradition in China of associating monkeys with the mind – symbolism that has helped the novel’s most memorable character, the Monkey King, find universal resonance.
It is one of Dickens’ best loved novels and an exposé of the class system, but the book’s depiction of women has proved divisive.
A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.
When her contemporaries were engaging with European themes in their novels, Austen remained rooted in her home country.
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor, English and Linguistics, University of Otago
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Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
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