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Bookhugger is all about the best new books – but it’s important to remember the books to which they owe so much, and which are still loved by so many people – so in association with Oxford University Press, enjoy an insight in to some great English classics.
Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
Posted On: January 25, 2010Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Oxford University talks about Charles Dickens’ life at the time he started writing his classic Great Expectations, and the reason he started writing the book.
Read More...Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle
Posted On: January 22, 2010Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
James A. Secord talks about the purpose of the famous voyage of the Beagle, on which the young Charles Darwin was exposed to many of the sights and experiences which led him to formulate his ground-breaking theories.
Read More...The early years of Anton Chekhov
Posted On: January 13, 2010Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) came from an unlikely background for a future literary celebrity. Unlike most of his fellow writers, he wasn’t from an aristocratic family but a conservative, merchant one. Rosamund Bartlett, who edited and translated the stories in the collection About Love, introduces Chekhov
Read More...Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Posted On: January 6, 2010Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Josephine McDonagh, who has written a new introduction to the Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, introduces the novel, and talks about Anne’s life and the imaginative world she and her siblings – Emily, Charlotte, and Branwell – inhabited
Read More...Jane Austen and making an impression
Posted On: December 21, 2009Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
In the classic Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen invites her readers to form judgments of her characters as they read the book – and then to revise them as the story unfolds. Fiona Stafford explains why this may in part account for the book’s enduring appeal.
Read More...Oscar Wilde, a “Jester at the Court of English Literature”?
Posted On: December 3, 2009Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Though perhaps better known for his plays and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde published three collections of short stories during his lifetime. John Sloan introduces Oscar Wilde’s literary career and the place of the short story within it.
Read More...Michael Slater on Charles Dickens
Posted On: December 2, 2009Posted In: Audio, Classics
Publisher: Yale University Press
In this Bookhugger exclusive, Michael Slater reads from his new biography of Charles Dickens, the first major life of the novelist to appear in nearly twenty years.
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