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Happy Returns to and in ‘Great Expectations’
Returning to ‘Great Expectations’, I read Pip’s journey of self-discovery as a dark novel of making sense of a past…
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Ambrose Bierce – horror cu H mare
Pentru iubitorii de cărți horror clasice, “Valea bântuită” din 1893 a lui Ambrose Bierce stabilește un etalon al literaturii gotice.
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Creature and Creation in ‘Frankenstein’ and 19th Century Horror
‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. True terror can only lie in classic 19th…
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Der Steppenwolf, Meisterwerk oder Ideologie?
Hermann Hesses Roman “Der Steppenwolf” ist eine Reise durch die tiefen Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. Oder der männlichen?
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Yesterwynde by Nightwish, a Symphony of Story and Time Passing
“We are their heir, dust on their palm We are because of a million loves” (Nightwish, Yesterwynde, ‘Perfume of the…
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Jane Eyre după 25 de ani
Am o relație specială cu “Jane Eyre”, romanul din 1847 al lui Charlotte Brontë, pe care azi o redescopăr.
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The Grit and Heart of ‘Shuggie Bain’
‘Shuggie Bain’, Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize winner is a dark and heavy story which will leave you emotionally drained.…
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Animal Farm (or, How Stories Make the World)
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” shows that you need only one thing to start a dictatorship: aggressive storytelling.
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