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Great works take us beyond the plot, beyond the details of the story-line, and enable us to see the world created therein, in light of our own, and vice versa — therefore allowing us to grow in ways that we otherwise may not have. In seeing the strengths and weaknesses of the characters, we can…
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“One hundred and fifty years ago this week, Victorian readers opened Dickens’s weekly magazine All the Year Round to find the concluding instalment of A Tale of Two Cities, and, immediately following it, the opening instalment of a new novel with no author ascribed. They joined a new protagonist, “Walter Hartright, by name,” on a…
Spiritual Wrestlings 