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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility (Abridged) ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Read by Kate Winslet The Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances when their father dies and they see the family estate pass to their half brother Joh… more →
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Sense and Sensibility
parisgirl wrote 5 days ago: Sense and Sensibility (Abridged) ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Read by Kate Winslet The Dashwood women are left in reduced … more →
The Last Liberal
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Darryl Peterkin wrote 4 weeks ago: “The University brings out all abilities, including stupidity.” — Anton Chekhov … more →
article review: "The Age of Mass Intelligence"
mconrsullivan wrote 1 month ago: a few weeks back, I reviewed Susan Jacoby’s brief article titled “The Dumbing of America … more →
The Root Rewrites the Western Canon
anotefrommel wrote 1 month ago: The Root Rewrites the Western Canon http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/root-rewrites-western-canon … more →
Literature: Quid Est? (II)
jenecrit wrote 2 months ago: Lately, I’ve been exploring the questions, what is literature? and what does it mean to study … more →
Jane Eyre
parisgirl wrote 5 months ago: Jane Eyre ♥ ♥ ♥ Read by Flo Gibson In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman acce … more →
Lolita
parisgirl wrote 5 months ago: Lolita ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Read by Jeremy Irons Nabokov’s wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its sta … more →
Where are the great books?
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William Blake wrote 5 months ago: I have been collecting all the great books since most “institutions of higher learning” … more →
Bloom on Canonical Strangeness
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Christopher wrote 6 months ago: I’m making my way through Bloom’s The Western Canon and one of his recurring themes concerning the c … more →
What use the Western Canon?
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adairjones wrote 9 months ago: An Era of Inclusion With the advances in feminist and civil rights issues in the middle of the last … more →
The fleeting sense of pudicitia
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Max wrote 9 months ago: Spurred on by a production of the Flying Dutchman in the Royal Opera House quite recently, I started … more →
Selected Aphorisms #20
Cistulli wrote 10 months ago: The twentieth installment in our decades-long new series. Comedy: an animated bee with the voice of … more →
Re-thinking my Reading Plan
Eric wrote 1 year ago: So after much deliberation I decided to rethink my reading plan for the year and the subsequent year … more →
Desert Island Reading
Tim Nichols wrote 1 year ago: If you had to be stuck on a desert island for [life, ten years, or some other long period of time], … more →
Is there any substitute for the Bible?
Elizabeth McCullough wrote 1 year ago: Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading raises what must be a common dilemma: how can a student or … more →
ISHMAEL REED INTERVIEW (3 OF 3): JABS, LOW BLOWS, AND KNOCKOUT PUNCHES
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Wajahat Ali wrote 1 year ago: ****( THE FINAL PART OF AN UNEDITED INTERVIEW WITH ISHMAEL REED EXCLUSIVELY WITH “GOATMILK. … more →
Hemingway's Blank Verse
