BBC Radio 4 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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And one final recommendation (for now!), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. https://t.co/V6udW3VE7G

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The brilliance of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar https://t.co/ouHJ1ijP0M

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How well do @greg_jenner and Dr Eleanor Janega (@GoingMedieval) know their Victorian Christmas history? Comedian Miles Jupp puts them to the test... 📝 Listen to the Yule Dead To Me Christmas special on BBC Sounds 🎄 https://t.co/4F686JzOX8 https://t.co/yyHnNhTcEN

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James Joyce, born on this day in 1882, in Rathgar, near Dublin. Here's a treat for the great man's birthday: a complete story from his collection Dubliners. You'll need about 13 minutes. https://t.co/evFv1Vlzfl | @BBCSounds

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It's a transcendent masterpiece. Funny, wise, irreverent, constantly surprising. And all the action in James Joyce's Ulysses takes place in Dublin on a single day - 16 June 1904. We name today after the book's everyman hero Leopold Bloom.

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@BBCSounds Here's a #Bloomsday treat: Andrew Scott reading James Joyce's early masterpiece A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. On @BBCSounds https://t.co/Gb9oe2wreN

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"Abandon hope all you who enter here" - Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy retains its visceral impact, its relevance to our lives and our conduct, 700 years after its publication. Your guide to the Inferno is Katya Adler, BBC Europe Editor 👿 🔱 🔥

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She was a prolific and successful author but we remember her for one extraordinary work, a novel so influential as to have become part of the culture: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Mary Shelley on You're Dead to Me @BBCSounds 📚 📖 📚 📖

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"His eyes took in the proud bearing of that figure there at the blue water’s edge..." Thomas Mann’s most famous, and infamous, novella: Death in Venice.

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Herman Melville's life was dramatic and often tragic. His great masterpiece Moby Dick only became a success after his death. https://t.co/4swGPJI2Zw 🐳 🐳 🐳

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