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Literature Clock: Tell Time By Story [Shared]

Literature Clock Towards four o’clock the condition of the English army was serious. The Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, … Continue reading

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Why should you read Charles Dickens? by Iseult Gillespie via TedEd [Video] [Shared]

The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past. More than a century after his death, these remain recognizable figures from … Continue reading

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What I’m Reading: Mythos by Stephen Fry

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William Blake’s 102 Illustrations of The Divine Comedy Collected in a Beautiful Book from Taschen | Open Culture [Shared]

I am making my way through The Inferno section of Divine Comedy at the moment and it was a bit serendipitous that I happened across this article. Sometimes that’s the way things work. You start looking in One Direction and … Continue reading

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Two Stanzas From The Divine Comedy: Inferno

THE DIVINE COMEDY: INFERNO In the world this man was filled with arrogance,and nothing good about him decks his memory;for this, his shade is filled with fury here. Many in life esteem themselves great menwho then will wallow here like … Continue reading

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Everything you need to know to read “Frankenstein” – Iseult Gillespie via TedEd [Video] [Shared]

In 1815, Lord Byron proposed a challenge to a few literary guests he had gathered in his house on Lake Geneva: Who could write the most chilling ghost story? This question sparked an idea in eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley who, over … Continue reading

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Lego Christmas Carol Set via Instagram and with time lapse video [Video]

Lego Christmas Carol Set Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite and this year we held our annual live reading of the story with friends via zoom. For my birthday, the family gifted me this special Lego set. … Continue reading

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