Classics
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Editors' picks
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Poetry is not merely a luxury for the middle classes - it offers a tough language for those with hard lives. As a TS Eliot festival opens in London, Jeanette Winterson remembers how his poems helped her through her troubled teenage years -
Why does Brideshead Revisited have such a strong hold on our imagination? Evelyn Waugh's beautiful dialogue plays its part, argues Christopher Hitchens, but the chief source of the novel's power is its summoning of innocence lost on the fields of Flanders. Never mind that the new film version is a travesty: go back to the book
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Julian Barnes on a bizarre 19th-century Anglo-French encounter
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John Crace's incisive pastiches of classic novels, from Joseph Conrad to Virginia Woolf
Latest reviews
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Nov 23 2008:
Review: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Day on a timeless classic of love and loss -
Nov 15 2008:
Review: Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Can another biography really surprise us? Absolutely, says Richard Eyre -
Oct 18 2008:
Review: The Jumping Frog and Other Sketches by Mark Twain
Who, after more than a century and a quarter, is as funny as they were considered originally, asks Nicholas Lezard -
Aug 23 2008:
Review: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and The Trial by Franz Kafka
Michel Faber contrasts two brave attempts to capture the spirit of a literary classic in pictures
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Aug 1 2008:
Review: The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens This is a handsome, solid little edition
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Nov 29 2008:
John Crace takes a quick trip through Alexandria
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Nov 23 2008:
Review: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Day on a timeless classic of love and loss -
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Nov 15 2008:
With Little Dorrit the BBC has dramatised a fable for our times. AS Byatt pays tribute to a terrifying, wonderful novel
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Nov 15 2008:
Review: Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Can another biography really surprise us? Absolutely, says Richard Eyre -
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Oct 20 2008:
John Crace gets to grips with Huxley's classic view of the future
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Oct 20 2008:
John Crace boils down the raunchy bits from Lawrence's classic novel
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Oct 18 2008:
Review: The Jumping Frog and Other Sketches by Mark Twain
Who, after more than a century and a quarter, is as funny as they were considered originally, asks Nicholas Lezard -
Oct 7 2008:
Great-grand-nephew to base sequel on characters and plot lines excised from original novel
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Oct 6 2008:
News: Dacre Stoker writes authorised sequel to great grand-uncle Bram's vampire classic
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Oct 4 2008:
What exactly was the nature of Henry James's 'extraordinarily intimate' injury? And what bearing, asks Elizabeth Lowry, does it have on his Venetian novella, The Aspern Papers?
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