Books Things Lucy Maud Montgomery Lied To Me About
That it would be impossibly romantic to live on a small island in the middle of a lake, rather than just incredibly inconvenient.
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Books Miss Havisham: A History
Carrie Frye on Miss Havisham, one of Dickens's most memorable characters, who presides over Great Expectations "like a great, ill-willed fairy queen."
Books How To Tell If You Are In A J.R.R. Tolkien Book
You have angered a tree. This ends poorly for you.
Books Children’s Stories Made Horrific: The Magic Schoolbus
Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.
Books How To Tell If You Are In A Regency-Era Novel Written After The End Of The Regency
Those were nine action-packed years!
Books Alternate Endings To Great Expectations
The numerous unpublished endings to "Great Expectations."
Books “Labor of Love”: An Interview With Moira Weigel
Nicole sits down with Moira Weigel, the author of a fascinating new book on the history of dating.
Books Great House Therapy: Lady Macbeth’s Murderous Mansion of Death
When it comes to decorating, fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Books Discovering Emma Lathen: On Fear, Family, and Comfort Reading
On Emma Lathen's John Putnam Thatcher mysteries, and the comfort they brought the author.
Books Every Meal In Great Expectations, Ranked In Order Of How Upsetting It Is
Oh my God, they just keep getting worse.
Books The Toast Looks Back: The Best Of Ayn Rand
What would we have done without her?
Books Two Linguists Explain Pseudo Old English in The Wake
In which Gretchen McCulloch, The Toast's resident linguist, teams up with medievalist and linguist Kate Wiles to discuss pseudo Old English in THE WAKE.
Books Black Like Me? Or, How I Learned to Embrace My Inner Emma
Patricia Matthew on Emma, fatal flaws, and "a white girl too far."
Books Don’t Let Anyone Tell You That You Can Read Chaucer’s Untranslated Prologue
Demand a translation and don't let anyone make you feel bad about that.
Books Horrifying Stories Made Anodyne and Comforting: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
This one troubles even me!!
