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Victorian Novels That Would Make Great TV Dramas
Here’s a truth universally acknowledged: Television and the Victorian novel are two wholly different media. Make as many comparisons as you will, but the 19th-century English novel will never...
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7 Better-Than-Beach-Reads About Famous Writers
Though a great many literary novels have novelists as protagonists — e.g. Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman, or Chabon’s Grady Tripp, and that’s just for starters — much fewer explicitly take their inspiration...
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Then and Now: Photos of Real Places Mentioned in Fiction
Looking through Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Lesley Adkins, it’s difficult not to compare the way things were during England’s Georgian and Regency eras with the England of today. The book gives a...
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Working Class Books: A Labor Day Reading List
You can spend this upcoming weekend grilling and mourning the death of summer, or you can spend the day that was first nationally recognized in 1894 to try and calm down the unionists following the...
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The 50 Scariest Books of All Time
The air is getting crisper, the nights are getting longer, and All Hallow’s Eve draws near. You know what that means: it’s time to curl up with a book guaranteed to give you the shivers — or at least...
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20 Photos of Famous Authors in Awesome Costumes
Halloween is fast approaching, and if you’re the writerly (read: introverted, inside-cat) type, you may be experiencing some anxiety about dressing up in a costume and walking the streets. But take...
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Great Literary Christmas Tales That Aren’t ‘A Christmas Carol’
Charles Dickens has pretty much dominated the Christmas story game for the last 170 years as of this week, since that’s when his famous novella A Christmas Carol was released. To break that down:...
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The 25 Greatest Homes in Literature
Great characters in literature get all the credit, but the fictional spaces they occupy are often just as interesting and can provide an opportunity for the reader to go even deeper into a story. What...
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Read This Before This: 10 Great Books Based on Other Great Books
Literature is a never-ending, overlapping, sometimes circular conversation — between writers, between readers, between books themselves. Especially when viewed from a vantage, and despite what Vonnegut...
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19 Novels About Politics for Election Day (and the Revolution, Too)
Has Election Day brought out your inner pundit, organizer, or revolutionary — or, after tonight’s news, depressed person who wants to escape reality via reading? If so, here’s a starter list of novels...
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30 Legendary Literary Mean Girls We Love to Hate
There’s a special place in hell for women who refuse to support other women, right? Or, if not hell, at least a central role in a classic novel. Yes, literature (particularly “classic” literature for...
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Notoriously Difficult Literary Classics, Transformed Into Popular Page-Turners
British novelist Fay Weldon may have come up with a solution to the ever-simmering genre wars. Writers, she said, should simply write two versions of their books, one meaty and contemplative for print,...
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“An Endless Succession of Magnificent Possibilities”: Why We Love Vacation...
“Something tells me we’re not going to like this place,” declares Rosemary Hoyt’s mother in the first spoken words of Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night. “I want to go home anyway,” Rosemary replies....
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From ‘True Detective’ to Henry James, When Should We Give Up On a Story?
The best place to go to find an unfiltered critical take on today’s hottest novels is the book-oriented social network Goodreads. Goodreads users, I’ve noticed, tend to be a group of serious pleasure...
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How Prohibition Turned American Writers Into Drinkers: From Susan Cheever’s...
America’s history with alcohol is volatile, almost like a binge drinker’s. In one era, we can be among the drunkest countries in the world; in another, we have no problem banning the substance almost...
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20 of the Creepiest Haunted Houses, Castles, and Mansions in Literature
The best haunted houses don’t necessarily charge an admission fee or feature electronic bats and actors in zombie makeup; often, they are found in between the covers of books, where our own vulnerable...
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25 Excellent Novels About Americans Abroad
I don’t know about you, but this is about the time in the election cycle when I start dreaming of escaping across the ocean, camping out in Berlin or Paris or Copenhagen and resolving never to pay...
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Literary Links: More Shriver Fallout — and Henry James, Postmodernist?
Here at Flavorwire, we pride ourselves on not only writing some of the best content on the internet, but keeping an eye on all of the great writing that other folks on the ‘net are doing, too. And...
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