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July 11, 2020

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — book review

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has its entertaining moments. The narrative seems intent on evoking a certain atmosphere. The people populating this novel meet up over drinks or dinner, where they divert themselves…
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March 13, 2020

The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf — book review

Throughout the course of my undergraduate degree I consistently and persistently avoided Virginia Woolf’s body of work as on the best of days I have little patience for stream of consciousness (especially of the Joycean variety) and modernist literature. When my lecturers mentioned Woolf they always seemed to confirm my impression of her being a…
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — book review

The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf — book review