THE term “literature of the age of Elizabeth ” is not confined to the literature produced in the reign of Elizabeth, but is a general name for an era in literature, commencing about the middle of her ...

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Writers have used cars to invent experiences we could never imagine. When a horseless carriage hurtled down the road towards Toad, Ratty and Mole in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows, it ...

Most of the time, the untimely death of a book character isn’t cause for celebration — from Tom Robinson and Lennie Smalls to Augustus Waters and Fred Weasley, the death of a beloved fictional ...

Our favourite character has a rainbow in her personality and wardrobe. With her colourful clothes and her bright personality, she helped bring the wheelchair-ridden and depressed Will out of his shell ...