Going Above and Beyond- This Kid Told J.K Rowling That He Wanted to Be Just Like Harry Potter, so She Broke Into His House and Murdered His Parents
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Going Above and Beyond- This Kid Told J.K Rowling That He Wanted to Be Just Like Harry Potter, so She Broke Into His House and Murdered His Parents

When eleven year old Harry Potter super-fan Quentin Queck wrote a letter to J.K. Rowling late last year, he wasn’t expecting a reply. Queck, who describes himself as the ultimate Harry Potter fan, merely wanted Rowling to know how much the character meant to him, and how the themes of friendship, perseverance and the cutting … Continue reading

Epic!!! One Avid Reader Has Proven That The Characters in Paradise Lost Never Take Off Their Shoes
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Epic!!! One Avid Reader Has Proven That The Characters in Paradise Lost Never Take Off Their Shoes

I don’t use the word ‘hero’ often. Usually I only use it to describe everybody who manages to climb a hill at some point, and not even really a steep hill, but in this case I am willing to make an exception. Eric Sandcastleton loves Paradise Lost, and after thirty years of close reading of … Continue reading

Jane Eyre: Newly Unearthed Letters show That Mr. Rochester Was Originally Intended to Have Hidden a Wife in Every Room of His 416 Room Mansion
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Jane Eyre: Newly Unearthed Letters show That Mr. Rochester Was Originally Intended to Have Hidden a Wife in Every Room of His 416 Room Mansion

Charlotte Bronte’s* Jane Eyre is considered a classic in literary history, and rightly so. Its themes of dying of easily preventable diseases and women being inside rooms remain as relevant today as they were when she first wrote them. But evidence unearthed recently indicate that Jane Eyre could have been a very different novel. In … Continue reading

Great News! H.P. Lovecraft Scholar Says That The Racism In His Books Was ‘Pretty Typical For the Era, So, You Know, Don’t Worry About It’
Innovative Literary Analysis

Great News! H.P. Lovecraft Scholar Says That The Racism In His Books Was ‘Pretty Typical For the Era, So, You Know, Don’t Worry About It’

I love me some H.P. Lovecraft. His stories about weird shit happening and words I can’t pronounce have helped shape the horror genre as it is today. But in every story there’s a moment where he’s like ‘and this is the fault of black people’ or says something else incredibly racist. Awkward!!!!! This brings up … Continue reading