A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
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Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mother to Son", Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, Tempest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
England’s Most Humane Novel
A new bibliomemoir on “Middlemarch” shows a book shaping a life.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged bibliomemoir, Middlemarch, reader response, Vladimir Nabokov Comments closed
Will GOP Base Play the Sap Yet Again?
Is the Republican establishment simply exploiting its base, like Tom (in “Mill on the Floss”) exploits Maggie and as Brigid O’Shaughnessy (in “The Maltese Falcon”) tries to exploit Sam Spade?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Dashiell Hammett, Maltese Falcon, Mill on the Floss, Presidential politics, Tea Party Comments closed
Literature about Health Care Reform
At present I am one of those liberals in a high state of anxiety about the prospects of Obama’s attempts to bring us universal health care. I find myself careening through the highs of hope and the lows of fear. I watch the political proceedings minutely, then turn away discouraged, then read some columnist […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Emily Dickinson, health care, Hope is that thing with feathers, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Middlemarch, Old Ironsides, Oliver Wendell Holmes, politics Comments closed