Thursday, 23 May 2019

The Invisible Man: a short story by G K Chesterton

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English critic, poet and novelist who was well known as one of the most colourful and pr...

A Tradition of 1804: a short story by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy is known as the author of a series of lengthy novels, which are not always an easy read. However, he also wrote a conside...
Thursday, 20 December 2018

The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell

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George Orwell (real name Eric Blair, 1903-50) is best known for two classic works, namely Animal Farm and 1984. However, he wrote a gr...
Thursday, 13 September 2018

The launch of Penguin Books

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According to the founder of Penguin Books, Allen Lane, he was inspired to start publishing cheap paperbacks when he had time to kill on...
Saturday, 11 August 2018

Poets of the 1930s: what inspired them?

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The 1930s saw an explosion of poetic activity in Great Britain , with poets such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice and...
Tuesday, 26 June 2018

There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe: what does it mean?

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn’t know what to do; So she gave them some broth with...
Monday, 7 May 2018

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: a play by Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard took the title of his 1966 play from a line towards the end of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. All the main characters are dead, w...