John Welford Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Nancy in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. She is one of the most memorable characters ever created by Dickens. https://t.co/KIWpQ4HqD2

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Jerome K Jerome: a writer remembered for one well-known book. That book, “Three Men in a Boat” is an all-time classic that he was never able to match. https://t.co/OgevH1HaYI

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Mystery in A Passage to India, by E M Forster. Can English and Indian people ever really understand each other? This is the question that Forster asks. https://t.co/YNq1FZSEFs

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Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy. Arguably, the first post-classical European poet of substance and also one of the greatest of all time. https://t.co/Vc99eEGNIe

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Mrs Dalloway, a novel by Virginia Woolf. A remarkable treatment of the problem of loneliness. https://t.co/nj8MOkcL0u

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Darkness and light in A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. The interplay of darkness and light, night and day, and good and evil provide an interesting running theme in the novel. https://t.co/lYS2DjgvOh

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Who was the real Lady Macbeth? Gruoch, Queen of the Scots, was not as portrayed by William Shakespeare. https://t.co/M6PkgKWPHJ

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Pip in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The central character of the novel can be seen – at least in part – as a psychological autobiography of the author. https://t.co/p3B1JbLkDm

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The Well of Loneliness, a novel by Radclyffe Hall. This was the first novel in English to feature lesbian relationships. Click the link! https://t.co/H42KQZFMta

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Franz Kafka. A 20th-century Czech writer whose fictional descriptions of the surreal situations into which people can fall gave rise to the word “Kafkaesque”. https://t.co/ivCAoDti9j