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The Mill on the Floss

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Author: George Eliot (Marian Evans) First published: 1860, by William Blackwood & Sons When Marian Evans began writing The Mill on the Floss during the first few months of 1859, the world did not yet know her as the famously cerebral George Eliot. Up until around June of that year, Evans was “in the closet,” [...]

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The Woman in White

Friday, April 23, 2010

Author: Wilkie Collins First Published: 1859-60, in All the Year Round The below is adapted  from an essay I wrote for The Guardian UK online. Often singled out as the foundation text of “sensation fiction”—a genre distinguished by its electrifying, suspenseful, and sometimes horrific plots, as well as its unsavoury themes of intrigue, jealousy, murder, [...]

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Dracula

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Author: Bram Stoker First Published: 1897, by Archibald Constable and Co. “Denn die Todten reiten Schnell” — (“For the dead travel fast.”) I love the opening chapter of Dracula—it’s like walking with someone through their own dark dream that they may or may not be remembering correctly. Jonathan Harker is travelling through a grim region [...]

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