Tag: #classics
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Who Are You Calling Vermin
by Pam Ayres ‘Maybe the polluters will purify our streams.Purify our waterways? In your bloomin’ dreams!All will be rewilded, all will be renewed,The country will look lovely,But we won’t have any food.Our stocks will be sustainable,The French will be our friends,We shall live in harmony, until the bitter end.’ Hidden beyond the bluebell woods and…
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agathe Christie Sneak Peek: “Poirot’s eyes sparkled with an extraordinary brilliance. ‘It is a riddle, Hastings, a riddle to be solved—by the little grey cells, and the grey cells alone.’” This gripping scene marks the moment when Poirot takes charge of the investigation into the mysterious death of Emily Inglethorp, setting the stage for…
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Persuasion
by Jane Austen ‘In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed’ Virginia Woolf Jane Austen’s moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded…
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only…