Finished. To celebrate I ordered a bottle of pineapple rum, Plantation Pineapple Stiggin's Fancy. Mr Stiggins was the non-conformist lay preacher who...
When I read that statement by St Paul, he seemed to contradict Jesus when he said whoever could not accept the kingdom of heaven like a little child...
I doubt JA would ever have written a heroine like Becky Sharp. Might she have written a heroine like Cathy Earnshaw or Tess Durbeyfield? Most of her...
"Her depiction of spinsters such as Miss Bates and the hopeless case, Nancy Steele, make the condition sound like lingering death."
I think you have...
Interesting point about Fanny Price. The more likeable heroines, Elizabeth, Catherine, Marianne and Emma, were all wrong about something. In the case...
Pickwick Papers was a early novel, so it was natural enough that Dickens experimented with several themes he would take up later and expand in other...
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