Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls takes place during the height of the Spanish Civil War and is roughly based on Hemingway’s experience covering the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance…
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Food in Jane Austen and Charles Dickens
As we’ve seen in both Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, food plays an important role in Dickens’ novels. But these are not the first appearances of gruel and negus in literature. In fact, earlier in the nineteenth century, Jane Austen utilized the dishes to show character development and social convention…
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Charles Dickens Part 3: A Christmas Carol
In so many ways, A Christmas Carol hit upon the zeitgeist of Victorian Britain: it successfully married Christmas history with the tragic social problems rife throughout the country. But it did so in an uplifting sense of tradition, family and goodwill…
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Charles Dickens Part 1: Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist was not your average Victorian novel – it was a brave satirical criticism of contemporary treatment of the poor and vulnerable…
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Louisa May Alcott Post 1: Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
Louisa May Alcott’s idyllic Thanksgiving feast consists of a turkey that is burnt on one side, inedible catnip stuffing and a pudding as heavy as lead…
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Hilary Mantel Part 1: Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall contains a plethora of food references throughout the novel, reflecting everything from courtly excess to Lenten austerity…
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Washington Irving Part 1: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is part romantic comedy, part horror story. It tells the tale of a love triangle quashed by the ghost of a Headless Horseman…
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Dante Alighieri Part 1: The Divine Comedy
In the Sixth Terrace of Purgatory, Dante encounters the souls guilty of gluttony, condemned to circle a fragrant, tempting fruit that can never be eaten…
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Mario Puzo Part I: The Fortunate Pilgrim
Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo is not a subservient housewife, making pasta in the background as men make plans. She is a shrewd and fearless matriarch…
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Oysters Part 3: the satire of Jonathan Swift
For the second half of our summer oyster series, we’re talking about the saucy satire of Jonathan Swift in both poetry and prose…
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Oysters Part 1: Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast is a celebration of everything Paris which, of course, includes the food, none more so than the humble yet delicious oyster…
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J.R.R. Tolkien Part 1: The Hobbit
The Hobbit is a truly beautiful story, made complex by the historic, literary, religious and anthropological references so intertwined with its quest…
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