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The latest version of Dickens' classic is a refreshingly diverse tale of the triumph of the ordinary heroism over everyday evil.
Memoirs of the morning after: because literature tells us the hangover is about so much more than physical symptoms.
When her contemporaries were engaging with European themes in their novels, Austen remained rooted in her home country.
Henry James called her a 'great, horse-faced bluestocking'. On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we celebrate George Eliot, a literary trailblazer with an endless appetite for ideas, living in a patriarchal time.
Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe was one of the first novels (in the modern sense) written in English. Some 300 years later, the complicated castaway and his misadventures continue to shape culture.
The Southern Ocean, as artists have uncovered, is also a treasure trove of cultural narratives.
What was a thoroughly English book has become a multilingual, ever-changing global text continually putting down roots in different cultures.
Even before blockbuster films and television, readers and writers hated reviewers plot-spoiling.
Study uncovers what inner-city teenagers really thing about Hamlet et al.
Her novels and essays, especially Small Island and The Long Song, brought Britain's slave-owning colonial history home to ordinary Britons, black and white alike.
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley believed that we can exercise our moral imagination 'in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb'. Here, then, are some tips for fostering empathy through art.
If you are tired of A Christmas Carol, why not try one of the few Hardy stories where all's well that ends well.
Writing is a solitary art. But authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize have to perform in public. Here's how this year's crop fared.
In the mid-16th century, William Baldwin wrote a satire on Catholicism but waited a decade before publishing it. Sensible man.
Many viewers think that the recent adaptation of Vanity Fair plays fast and loose with Thackeray's novel. But the writer was surprisingly modern.
Shakespeare can survive a little chipping away at his 400-year reputation.
The socially and ethnically diverse working classes are not being heard. A recent project aims to change that.
Sharp-eyed Victorian writers exploded the myth of tranquil village life.
The ability to speak more than one language informs many writers of fiction, but analysis of Booker Prize shortlists suggests this is not so important any more.
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