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The True Redemption of Jean Valjean: A ‘Les Misérables’ Character Study

29 Dec 2012
Why Hemingway Would Hate ‘The Toilers of the Sea’: A Review

16 Dec 2012
‘A Clergyman’s Daughter’: Did Orwell Use Dorothy as a Philosophical Experiment?

21 Oct 2012
Why Richard Parker Matters: Symbolism and Soul in ‘Life of Pi’

5 Oct 2012
‘Omerta’ Book Analysis: Can Mafia Honor Survive Modern Corruption?

30 Sep 2012
Why Read ‘Lolita’? Deciphering Nabokov’s Hidden Meaning & Message

21 Sep 2012
The Trauma of the Pulpit: Analyzing Baldwin’s ‘Go Tell It On The Mountain’

18 Jun 2012
Why ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a Psychological Masterpiece (Not Just a Romance)

30 May 2012
The Art of Tragedy: Why You Must Read Hemingway’s ‘Death in the Afternoon’

15 May 2012
Did Oliver Deserve His Ending? Fate and Satire in ‘Oliver Twist’

8 May 2012
Why ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ Defied My Expectations | Book Review

25 Apr 2012
Beyond Tree-Hugging: The Violent Love & Satire of ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’

25 Apr 2012
Is Stein’s Style Genius or Bogus? A Review of ‘Ida’ by Gertrude Stein

25 Apr 2012
‘Steppenwolf’ by Hermann Hesse: Shattering the Bourgeois Compromise

25 Apr 2012
Beyond the Warren: The Hidden Philosophy of ‘Watership Down’

25 Apr 2012
Crushed by the Academy: A Critical Analysis of Hesse’s ‘Beneath the Wheel’

25 Apr 2012
Why I Was Wrong About F. Scott Fitzgerald: ‘This Side of Paradise’ Review

25 Apr 2012
‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ Review: Crafty Prose, But Is It a Masterpiece?

25 Apr 2012
‘A Moveable Feast’ Review: A “Like-Hate” Look at Hemingway’s Style

25 Apr 2012
‘1984’ by George Orwell: Why I Both Love and Utterly Despise It

25 Apr 2012
The Literary Grunge of ‘Tales from The Thousand and One Nights’

25 Apr 2012
Is True Socialism Actually Anarchy? An Analysis of Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’

25 Apr 2012
Is ‘Siddhartha’ a True Story? Analyzing Fiction vs. Philosophy in Hesse’s Classic

25 Apr 2012
Frederick Douglass Narrative: Religious Hypocrisy & The Psychology of Slavery

25 Apr 2012
Does Death Exist? Unpacking the Ending of ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’

25 Apr 2012
Cheap Happiness or Exalted Suffering? Analyzing ‘Notes from the Underground’

25 Apr 2012
‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A Critical Review & Character Analysis

25 Apr 2012
When “Good Business” Kills Humanity: Analyzing ‘The Winter of Our Discontent’

25 Apr 2012
Illusion of Class: Analyzing ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’

25 Apr 2012
Mack vs. Doc: Why We Envy Failure in Steinbeck’s ‘Cannery Row’

25 Apr 2012