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Billy Collins’ “Study in Orange and White”
T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King”
Probably the most popular twentieth century treatment of the King Arthur story, and the one that does least to eviscerate the traditional Arthurian legend, is T.H. White’s four-part novel The Once and Future King, published as a complete compilation in 1958 after its original parts (The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made… Continue reading T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King”
Jeanette Winterson’s “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”
Tramadol Online Prices Jeanette Winterson’s semi-autobiographical 1985 novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel that, according to Winterson herself, bookstores at first found difficult to categorize. When it first came out, they usually placed in the cookbook section. When it began to gain recognition as a “lesbian coming of age” novel, it was placed among the LGBTQ literature.… Continue reading Jeanette Winterson’s “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”
Edith Wharton’s “Age of Innocence”
Edith Wharton’s masterpiece The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1921, in just the fourth year of the prize’s existence. And she was the first woman to win the prize. But her award became controversial, not because of her gender, but because it was revealed that the three-man jury had initially voted to… Continue reading Edith Wharton’s “Age of Innocence”
