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May 25, 2025 Emma – Jane Austen The second reading of Emma pleasantly surprised me. After the initial embarrassment of having underappreciated this amazing work of Austen, I managed to wallow…
May 17, 2025 The Ladies’ Paradise – Émile Zola The Ladies’ Paradise, the 11th novel of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, is a story of the coming of the modern age and the rise…
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May 8, 2025 Hamlet – William Shakespeare Hamlet is the best psychological play of Shakespeare. Most of his tragedies penetrate into the characters’ psychologies, but no one comes close to Hamlet…