Victorian Literature
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First 100 Words: The Picture of Dorian Gray
in 100 WordsSlowing down, noticing smell, colour, movement, temperature, perhaps touch? It’s as mindful a first sentence as you could ever wish for. But …
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First 100 Words: Wuthering Heights
in 100 WordsI don’t think I like you. And possibly not Mr Heathcliff, either. Why are you here?
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An Unexpected Literary Pilgrimage
in MarginaliaWe are too fond of putting writers on pedestals. We turn them into portraits, movements, dates, themes and quotations, until the person can almost disappear behind the literature. Literary pilgrimage has a way of re-humanising authors.
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13.08 HG Wells
Wells seems repeatedly fascinated by what happens when intelligence outruns sympathy. Are you thinking of AI when you read that?
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02.06 Thomas Hardy
Michael Henchard’s desperately unhappy ending helped shape my reading tastes.