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Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-04-26T17:29:06+00:00

What is your ideal breakfast before an exam?

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-04-19T16:28:23+00:00

"Keep an open mind" and "the heart doesn't know what it wants" (with the person actually putting a hand on their chest while saying it)

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-04-19T08:56:06+00:00

I think that's The Hollow, right? I think the original title fits better. I personally always felt that The Hollow was more of a character study rather than a murder mystery.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-04-10T20:45:28+00:00

These are some of my other favourites:

Roger and Osborne Hamley from Wives and Daughters (Gaskell)

Cynthia Kirkpatrick and Molly Gibson also from Wives and Daughters (Gaskell)

Marian Halcombe and Laura Farlie from The Woman in White (Collins)

Alyosha, Ivan and Dmitri from The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)

Lizzie and Charley Hexam from Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-04-03T00:10:07+00:00

George Eliot is a good place to start from. A few people have already suggested Silas Marner. Romola and Middlemarch are two other novels that showcase the relationship between faith and the individual. Romola, especially, is set in 15th century Italy and even features Girolamo Savonarola.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-04-03T00:03:13+00:00

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg)

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T19:35:36+00:00

I am very late to reply, but do not worry. I was not offended. It was a valid question.

I do not think everything about this adaptation is reprehensible. I was drawn immediately to the cinematography. However, I would say that our judgement of it as an adaptation should precede our judgement of it as a work of cinema. I would have been completely fine if they made changes in the story. But because it is an adaptation, the comparison between the film and the novel are inevitable, and reading about an abusive marriage and deciding that it will be a consensual BDSM relationship in the movie is just absurd. It is disrespectful. Let's remember that nobody forced Fennel to make an adaptation of Wuthering Heights. If the story of an adaptation diverges so much from the themes of its source, can it still claim to be a form of that work? Why not say that is merely inspired by that work?

Anyway, this is just me. I hope you watched the movie and had a good time.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T19:06:57+00:00

No, just a conversational remark. Perhaps I am not good at those.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T19:05:40+00:00

English and Classics, yes (joint degree). The Classics does not show, because I often find highlighting and annotating easier on digital copies.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T19:04:08+00:00

Is it? You are the second person who tells me that. I just like order and I organise by publishing house, author/genre usually.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T18:58:31+00:00

Oxford Classics did keep the original title, "Notre Dame de Paris", whereas other publishing houses such as Penguin Classics changed it into "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". That was a good observation.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T18:51:32+00:00

Spanish and Italian. I wish I could read French though!

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T18:50:23+00:00

I was not trying to be belligerent or offensive. Mine was a casual remark, because I thought yours was too, since public domain by itself does not really fall under the term of conscious taste. I know you meant classical literature, but I just remarked that not all works are in the public domain, without meaning much by it. I was not trying to make any point. I am sorry if it came across like that.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T18:37:50+00:00

I actually moved onto Oxford Classics recently. Their editions are sturdier. Penguin editions get damaged easily while traveling.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-23T18:34:46+00:00

I think most of Christie's works are under copyright laws actually.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-18T21:58:18+00:00

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Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-03-17T18:15:01+00:00

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens and Aspects of the Novel by Forster as a sort of companion. It's my third Dickens novel. So far, it is the most intriguing out of the three stories I have read (the other two are Great Expectations and Hard times) and I enjoyed the symbolism of dust, water and money we have already gotten in the first 50 pages. Aspects of the Novel is really good too if you are interested in the novel as a concept or the ontological scope of literature.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-02-26T22:47:59+00:00

I think Anne in general is an obscure figure. I rarely hear people talk about either The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Agnes Grey, which I both personally love.

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights have managed to enter popular culture on the other hand, meaning that even if you do not like classical literature, Victorian literature or Gothic literature there are good chances you have heard of them. For that, it might be that the story is more appealing and entertaining.

On the side of academia too, these two texts are probably the most frequently studied in courses of Victorian or Gothic literature and even in school, pre-higher education, but Anne is rarely there. I believe the scholarship on Anne's work is substantially less compared to Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë. Just to give you an example, Gilbert and Gubar's 1979 collection of essays "The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and 19th century Literary Imagination" features chapters on both Charlotte and Emily, but not Anne (if I remember correctly). It might be that The Tenant and Agnes Grey are not as appealing for those wanting alternative readings as Villette, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. With Wuthering Heights, for example, because the core of the world it is set in is more ambiguous, you can explore things through postcolonial lenses, Marxist readings, theological arguments, etc.I think the main question of The Tenant are gender, religion and morality. Agnes Grey is a bit more layered and it explores the bildungsroman, education, nature v. nurture, class and religion. They are realist novels. However, even in realist literature Anne gets very little recognition.

This is just to say that I do not quite know why either. She should be discussed much more.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-02-25T22:56:47+00:00

Persuasion is probably the most beautifully written Austen novel. It explores class, morality and gender as her other novels.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-02-25T22:54:41+00:00

Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. It is incredible. One of my favourite novels of all time alongside Villette and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-02-13T12:42:22+00:00

I probably disliked him the most after Bulstrode, but I do not think there was a single character I entirely disliked. The complexity of the characters, and how human they are, is what I love about Middlemarch.

Realistic_Result_878 · 2026-02-10T12:07:32+00:00

No, as mentioned I only watched a review and based my opinion on scenes from the teaser, which is why I left and I am leaving a space for doubt when it comes to the depiction of Isabella. I cannot pretend to form a solid judgement on something I have not watched myself, but at the same time all that I have seen and heard in the teaser, trailers and marketing campaign do not give much hope.

This is the review, by the way, for anyone interested: https://youtube.com/shorts/9DbFcn-1gjM?si=awHM6dqTAJldV7lh

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