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Friday, 26 April 2013

Love is Russian... Wider Reading 10: Doctor Zhivago

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Doctor Zhivago is an epic, a romance, and a history. In the course of Yuri’s life, the modern history of Russia is revealed. He is born unde...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Love is Enduring... Wider Reading 9: Birdsong

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Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens, France in 1910. After a passionate love affair with hi...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Love is Trouble... Wider Reading 8: Leda and the Swan

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Leda and the Swan" was published in Yeats's 1928 collection “The Tower,” after being rejected for publication by The Irish Statesma...
Monday, 11 March 2013

Love is Scandalous... Wider Reading 7: The School for Scandal

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Richard Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the superficial intrigues and scandals of the overfed, underworked ...
Monday, 10 December 2012

Love is a Journey... Wider Reading 6: Song of Achilles

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Greece - in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles....
Friday, 14 September 2012

Love is Unquantifiable... Wider Reading 5: Sonnet 43

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Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was initially unwilling to publish her collection of 44 love sonnets, feeling that they were too p...
Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Love is Dangerous... Wider Reading 4: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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"The business of the novelist," author Thomas Hardy once wrote, "is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and...