George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”

It seems that the reputation of Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot (since what Victorian publisher would accept a novel by someone with a woman’s name?), just keeps growing stronger and stronger as time goes by. Already a major novelist in her own time, with acclaimed novels like Silas Marner (1861), Daniel Deronda (1876), Adam Bede (1859), and The Mill on the Floss (1860),… Continue reading George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”

Sherlock Holmes is listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most portrayed human literary figure in the history of film or television. There have been more than 25,000 publications, stage dramatizations, films or television productions featuring the world’s most famous detective, and his influence on the development of the genre of mystery cannot be… Continue reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”

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Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House”

Charles Dickens is the most prolific and popular novelist of Victorian England, and it would be impossible to conceive a list of the great English language novels without considering his contribution. But oh my, what a plethora of choices! One could simply yield to the temptation of picking a novel that everybody already loves—to pick,… Continue reading Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House”

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Wilkie Collins’ “The Woman in White”

Wilkie Collins was a struggling young Victorian novelist and playwright until 1851, when he met Charles Dickens and his life changed. Dickens became his close friend and literary mentor, and began publishing some of Collins’ efforts in his own periodicals. Particularly in the period from 1859 to 1869, Collins put out his best work, including… Continue reading Wilkie Collins’ “The Woman in White”

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