A literary classic. A classic of literature. A great work. A work of genius. A masterpiece. A classic. The classics. You know War & Peace? It’s a classic. Les Miserables? A classic, too. And Jane Eyre. And Plato’s Republic. And Moby Dick. And Hamlet is a classic, as well. We call them all classics. It’s our [...]
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When I am considering the big question: What shall I read next? I instinctively look toward the big pile of books I have yet to read – with so little time to read in life, it makes sense to keep trying new things. But every so often, while looking for something new, I stumble across [...]
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In June The Sydney Theatre Company will perform Andrew Upton’s version of The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov Few citizens of the Soviet Union would have been audacious or foolhardy enough to write a letter of complaint to Stalin but in 1930 writer Mikhail Bulgakov did just that. After years of being harassed by the [...]
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In my inbox today was a newsletter from Penguin Classics UK in which they list the… Top Ten Cruellest Classics (wah, ha, har!) They didn’t say ‘wah, ha, har!’ that was me. I thought it needed something. They did say this, however: Despite some sunny days recently, we wouldn’t dare argue with T. S. Eliot [...]
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