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He’s kind of freed things up for us. You know, Bulgakov – is he sci-fi? Is he magic realist? Even our own tradition, George Eliot, The Lifted Veil, that’s sci-fi, isn’t it?
Stephenie Meyer cannot hold a flaming pitch torch to George Eliot. There is a Great Tradition of English Literature - a Canon of transcendent works - and Breaking Dawn is not part of it.
It's a great achievement to have secured this award from the Clore Duffield Foundation. As a borough we do have key links with number of influential authors, such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Alexander Pope and of course Virginia Woolf.More quotes »
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MELANIE PHILLIPS: The more abuse Mr Gove gets from the teachers, the more you know he's right
Sometimes, you can gauge someone’s quality from the enemies they make. By that standard, the embattled Education Secretary, Michael Gove, is a person of the highest quality. He has been attracting unprecedented amounts of flak from the teaching professio from Daily Mail - UK Read more »
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Telling It Like It Is
Like many writers, I was interested from a very early age in the relationship between the way a story was told and what it was telling. I liked the way the words in “Charlotte’s Web” made webs themselves, spinning out from one another, silken. As a teena from The New York Times Read more »
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START HERE, Vol. 2 Write-In Giveaway Finalist #1
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Michael Gove is wrong: why shouldn't students read Twilight?
At his Brighton College speech, Michael Gove said students should read Middlemarch rather than Twilight, but former headteacher Jill Berry says he's wrong Does reading Twilight over Middlemarch make you less educated as Michael Gove suggests? Jill Berry from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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TEENS: Realize what your mother does for you
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." — George Eliot. As Mother's Day just passed, it made me think about a lot of things. What would we all do without our mothers? From the day we are born, they take care of us and nurture us. It has from The Times Read more »
