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The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot. Sep 04, 2023

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The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920.

Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bible, Marvell, Buddha, and the folklore of the Holy Grail, among other sources, the poem emphasizes the fundamental fragmentation and lack of connection that characterizes modern life and relationships.

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At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part V. Sep 04, 2023

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David Innes is a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's crust, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar. In Burroughs' concept, the Earth is a hollow shell with Pellucidar as the internal surface of that shell.

Pellucidar is inhabited by prehistoric creatures of all geological eras, and dominated by the Mahars, a species of flying reptile both intelligent and civilized, but which enslaves and preys on the local stone-age humans. Innes and Perry are captured by the Mahars' ape-like Sagoth servants and taken with other human captives to the chief Mahar city of Phutra. Among their fellow captives are the brave Ghak, the Hairy One, from the country of Sari, the shifty Hooja the Sly One and the lovely Dian the Beautiful of Amoz. (From Wikipedia.)

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At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part IV. Sep 04, 2023

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At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part III. Sep 04, 2023

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At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part II. Sep 04, 2023

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At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part I. Sep 04, 2023

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Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. Part VII. Aug 31, 2023

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Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the novel is a vehicle for a humanist critique of both utilitarian education ('Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts', says Mr. Gradgrind in the opening paragraph) and the mutual antagonism between capital and the trade union. A humanist education system, it turns out, is Dickens's solution to the class struggle.

The story is set in the fictional Coketown and was partly inspired by a visit to Preston during the factory lockout that brought the town's industry to a standstill in 1853. This version is read as it appeared in 20 issues of Dickens's weekly Household Words, from April to August 1854.

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Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. Part VI. Aug 31, 2023

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Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. Part V. Aug 31, 2023

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Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. Part IV. Aug 31, 2023

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