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    Lolita

    Narrated by the pseudonymous Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man in prison for murder, Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece Lolita takes the form of a monologue in which Humbert describes his life-long ...

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    Lolita's Publication History

    Vladimir Nabokov was born April 22, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He left the country in 1919 and lived in England, Germany, and France before settling in the United States in 1940. In 1961 he ...

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    Howl's Moving Castle

    Sophie Hatter is cursed. After the death of her father, her stepmother settles Sophie into a life at the family hat shop, but an encounter with the evil Witch of the Waste leaves Sophie magically ...

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    Hayao Miyazaki's Film Adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle

    Diana Wynne Jones' 1986 novel Howl's Moving Castle was beloved by fans but not globally known until 2004, when Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki adapted the film into an animated feature. In a 2011 ...

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    Alias Grace

    When Grace Marks was sixteen years old, she was accused of killing Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear. On the farm that Kinnear owned, Montgomery and Kinnear had snuck around in secret; they were ...

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    The True Story of Grace Marks and Why Margaret Atwood Wrote About Her

    The novel Alias Grace, handsomely written by Margaret Atwood, is based on the true life story of housemaid Grace Marks, convicted of taking part in the murder of Thomas Kinnear, who employed Marks...

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    The Fortnight in September

    "All men are equal on their holidays: all are free to dream their castles without thought of expense, or skill of architect."

    In April 2020, several weeks into a stressful nationwide ...

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    The Seaside Resort Town of Bognor Regis

    The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff takes place in 1930 at the West Sussex seaside resort town of Bognor Regis on the south coast of England. The Stevens family is spending two weeks at the ...

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    Erasure

    Erasure by Percival Everett, first published in 2001, has reached great heights with its author's escalating fame and the 2023 film adaptation American Fiction. But it retains within the confines of ...

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    A Percival Everett Starter List

    Percival Everett's 2001 novel Erasure was adapted for film as American Fiction in 2023, leading to director Cord Jefferson's Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay. The year after, Everett's new novel ...

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    The House on Buzzards Bay

    If Jim's parents hadn't died when he was a teenager, the house on Buzzards Bay would have passed to them. Instead, at age 25 and just out of law school, Jim finds himself alone with the keys. ...

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    Communal Utopias in Nineteenth-Century America

    In The House on Buzzards Bay, Dwyer Murphy's gothic thriller, a group of former college roommates reunite for their summer vacation in a beachfront mansion. The house, owned equally by all six ...

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    A great detective's young assistant yearns for glory, but first they have learn to get along in this delightful feel good mystery.

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