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Category: Classic Books

Beauty and The Beholder: A Review of ‘The Bluest Eye’ by Toni Morrison

On the very first page, we are told that Pecola Breedlove, an 11 year old girl with only the desire of seeing the world through blue eyes, is impregnated by her own father, and that Pecola will live and her child will die. “There is really nothing more to say,” writes Morrison, “except why. But…

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To Be or Not To Be ‘Persuaded’: A Review of ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen

Ralph Waldo Emerson said about Jane Austen’s novels that they were ‘’imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English Society, without genius, wit or knowledge of the world.’’ It’s true that her books were set in the traditional Victorian society, but Austen’s study and satire of this very society is genius, and full of wit and…

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