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As most of you know, I am not a fan of the way romance is treated in literature today. I like a story about a cute couple as much as anyone, but when things like rape and unhealthy obsession are portrayed as totally normal and romantic, and the book is full of so many graphic... Continue Reading →
Finally, over a year after I read this epic, I'm talking about it on the blog. Let's give three cheers for procrastination! But, on a more serious note, Beowulf is the most important work of literature in the English language. Written by an unknown author around 700-750 A.D., Beowulf is relevant for its cultural framework,... Continue Reading →
Paradise Lost by John Milton is one of the greatest works in the English Language due to its interactive structure, theological exploration, magnificent storytelling, and lasting influence on literature and media. In fact, this book even had great influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (my review of which I'll repost tomorrow). It's a retelling of the... Continue Reading →
Hamlet: a play that - if you had a good education - you were forced to read in high school or had to act in if you were in theater. Nowadays, some schools are banning this book for a variety of reasons, including the heavy themes explored throughout it. Of course, this is stupid, because... Continue Reading →
J.R.R. Tolkien once envisioned creating a body of interconnected legends that would reflect the essence of England’s mythic past, saying in a letter to Melton Waldman in 1951: “But once upon a time, (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from... Continue Reading →
I had heard it said by several of my friends that junior year was going to be the worst year of high school...and they were kind-of right. It wasn't that it was the absolute worst year of my life or anything. What made it the hardest academic year for me was just the massive workload... Continue Reading →
Two books that I was assigned for my class on British literature was Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass and Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Both are classic children's stories that I was familiar with growing up, but it wasn't until I read them this year that I realized that both... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë are two of the greatest female authors to have ever lived. Charlotte Brontë, having been born a year before Austen died, was familiar with her work and famously said of Pride and Prejudice in a letter to George Henry Lewes in January 1848: “Miss Austen being, as you say, without 'sentiment,'... Continue Reading →
If any of you guys have been with me since I first started my blog (thank you if you have been), you'll know that one of the first book reviews I ever wrote on here was a review of Charlotte Bronte's book, Jane Eyre, a book that I thoroughly disliked for what I saw to... Continue Reading →
Mary Shelley was an interesting person. Her father was an atheist and encouraged her to adhere to his anarchist political beliefs. She had a rich education and when she was a teenager, she was the mistress, then wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. That meant that she had many social connections with prominent writers... Continue Reading →
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