Tag: Henry James

• 5 Classics for October

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. Of course, there’s one word that automatically comes to mind when thinking about the month of October: spooky! What better way to ring in the Halloween season than by reading some spooky books? Here are my…

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  October 6, 2019

  Bookish

  Bram Stoker, Classic, Classic Literature, Dracula, Emily Bronte, Frankenstein, Henry James, Mary Shelley, October, The Turn of the Screw, The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, Wuthering Heights

• A Classic Couple: The Turn of the Screw and We Were Liars

  In a past Top Ten Tuesday post I shared pairs of classic and contemporary novels that I saw parallels between. One of the spookiest pairs is Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898) and E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars (2014). These books are take place in very different time periods, settings, and under unusual circumstances; however, there are…

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  October 25, 2017

  Classic Couple

  A Classic Couple, Classics, E. Lockhart, Henry James, literature, The Turn of the Screw, We Were Liars

• AUGUST 2017 | Wrap-Up

  August has always been one of my favorite months of the year. I love the feeling of transition that it brings, mostly because for the majority of my life it has meant starting an exciting new year of school. This year my academics are starting a little later (I’m coming, Oxford!) but August nevertheless brought…

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  September 1, 2017

  Monthly Wrap-Up

  2017, August, College, Flipped, Henry James, Monthly Wrap-Up, Oscar Wilde, Summer, The Picture of Dorian Gray, William Faulkner