Aspects of Literature

Of all Charles Dickens’s treatments of social class in his novels, that presented in “Great Expectations” is the most radical and tho...

A review of a short book that is a joy to read, and which was made into a highly successful stage play and film. 84 Charing Cross...

Barnaby Rudge was the fifth novel published by Charles Dickens (1812-70). It appeared in weekly parts in his short-lived journal Maste...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer end on a rather strange note, namely 350 words (or thereabouts) under the heading “Heere tak...

The Parson’s Tale has to be the least approachable of all the Canterbury Tales, with the possible exception of Chaucer’s Tale of Meli...

A medieval manciple was in effect the quartermaster of an Inn of Court, responsible for buying and looking after the food supplies fo...

David Copperfield was the novel of which Charles Dickens was most fond among his works, and it is not difficult to see why. It was th...