classic literature

  • The Reading Room: What Are You Reading?

    What are you reading at the moment, and is it behaving itself? Come pull up a chair in the Moorland & Mayfair Reading Room.

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  • Why Do We Always Return To Jane Austen?

    You return for Elizabeth and Darcy, perhaps, or for Emma’s meddling, Anne’s patience, Marianne’s storms of feeling; but the curious thing about Austen is how quickly the old certainties begin to loosen. Characters you once adored become exasperating, compromises you dismissed begin to make sense, and jokes you scarcely noticed acquire a little sting. The…

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