Tag: satire

What Happens When Facts Replace Feelings? Dickens Answers in Hard Times

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Charles Dickens' Hard Times is a very concise but incisively well-written book that reflects criticism toward industrial society in...

The Wickedly Humorous Teenage Writings of Jane Austen before Pride and Prejudice

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Some books help you learn to read about the author; others allow you to actually hear the author's presence....

Behind the Hedge: J.K. Rowling’s Dark Autopsy of a Small Town

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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling demonstrates her freedom from genre constraints. In this novel, she has taken a...

When Ghosts Gossip: Dickens’s Haunted House as a Comedy of Fear and Fellowship

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There are quite a few ghost stories, and then there is The Haunted House, which is a machine created...

Malgudi’s Charming Rogue: Gossip, Identity, and the Quiet Sting of Narayan’s The Talkative Man

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R.K. Narayan’s "The Talkative Man" conveys the sentiments of friendship through the voice of its central character, the titular...
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