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Bram Stoker’s Dracula
People may forget that before the days of True Blood and Twilight vampires were considered scary creatures of the night with unusually purple and pale tinted skin. they were able to transform into...
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Utopia and Dystopia: A Quick Review
Utopian and dystopian classic literature is commonly used for satire and societal critique. Ambiguity and irony are common modes of syntax for novels in this fashion. This genre was first identified...
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Will The Hunger Games Become A Classic?
When a book series hits it big it is very hard to tell whether or not it is a passing fad or if it has the driving force to be added to the classic literature canon. It will take years before we can...
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The Original Winnie The Pooh
Before Disney took these characters and made them beloved household names, A. A. Milne had a classic literature book series for children. His lead character, Winnie-the-Pooh (yes, hyphenated) also...
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The Anime Adventures of Tom Sawyer
As I have explored on this blog before I am something of a dolt. Sure I can spin a sentence in a favorable direction and in conversation I can act like I know a lot of junk about literature but in...
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No Fear Shakespeare
Last year I had seen Shakespeare in the Park with two of my friends. I had a fantastic time and so did they. After the show had ended and I had asked my two friends what they thought, one declared, “I...
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The Denial of Death
Books have the power to inspire and make people feel like they can accomplish things. People read stories of heroism and of brave souls accomplishing huge things against tremendous odds. Books both...
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Dave Eggers Genius?
When Dave Eggers named his semi autobiographical literary debut A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius it should have been a preemptive critical suicide mission. Instead the literary community got...
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Number One Desert Island Book Of All Time: High Fidelity
Nick Hornby was a middle aged British guy before I entered college. Yet somehow when I read the book High Fidelity in 1997 long before I ever had anything like a real girlfriend it seemed to predict...
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The White Whale And Me
Recently I have thought a lot about Moby Dick. The analogy of the “White Whale” is something many of us are fixated on whether we have read the epic piece of classic literature or not. It is a vital...
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