Classics
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Editors' picks
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To prepare for staging Timon of Athens, which opens at the Globe today, Dominic Dromgoole went in search of the original source - the First Folio of 1623 -
With its gargantuan length and exaggerated coincidences, Les Misérables is not read for its subtlety or the cleverness of the plot ... Adam Thirlwell on why Victor Hugo's epic masterwork repays the effort
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John Crace's incisive pastiches of classic novels, from Joseph Conrad to Virginia Woolf
Latest reviews
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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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Jun 21 2008:
Tarif Khalidi's new English edition of Islam's sacred book offers valuable perspectives, says Ziauddin Sardar
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May 18 2008:
Alexandre Dumas's The Last Cavalier brings the swaggering bravado of the musketeers into the Napoleonic era, says Peter Conrad
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Mar 29 2008:
Desiderius Erasmus's Praise of Folly should be on every civilised bookshelf, says Nicholas Lezard
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Mar 29 2008:
Rereading: Everyone standing for political office should have read Gullivers Travels, according to Michael Foot. Joseph O'Connor on why it's a timely choice for Dublin's 'One city, one book'
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Aug 18 2008:
Works written in failing health, which family wished suppressed, to see light
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Aug 14 2008:
John Crace reads his cult G2 column in which he boils down essential books to 400 words
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Aug 9 2008:
Tessa Hadley was an unlikely convert to Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's lyrical elegy to the world of Scottish crofters
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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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Jul 19 2008: Digested classic: He was the first man she had heard urinate, and as the years had weakened his stallion's stream, she had come to treat him as a baby
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Jul 19 2008: Rereading: Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues
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Jul 19 2008:
Nothing can beat a classic when you're on the beach, says Nicholas Lezard
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Jul 6 2008:
Rachel Redford on Sons and Lovers
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Jun 28 2008:
The digested classic: I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, yet when I came back from the east last autumn I wanted no more privileged excursions
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Jun 21 2008:
Tarif Khalidi's new English edition of Islam's sacred book offers valuable perspectives, says Ziauddin Sardar
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Jun 21 2008:
The digested classic: 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. Bof. Who cares?'
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Jun 21 2008:
Declared unfit for military service, Dylan Thomas spent much of the war writing film and radio scripts for the Ministry of Information. One of these, The Art of Conversation, is published here for the first time. Andrew Lycett explains its significance
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Jun 14 2008:
The digested classic: 'The clocks were striking 13 as Winston Smith entered his seventh-floor flat in Victory Mansions'
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Jun 6 2008:
Charlotte Higgins: Boris Johnson is always praising classics. But he's hardly the best person to change the subject's image
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May 24 2008:
Henry James complained that Middlemarch was too messy. But it was George Eliot's 'riot of subjectivity' that made the novel so bold. Zadie Smith salutes the Victorian novelist who gave future writers the freedom to push the form to its limits
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