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4 ♦ The Golden Fleece
And my first story for the Deal Me In challenge comes from Tanglewood Tales. How appropriate! “The Golden Fleece” is the last story in Tanglewood Tales, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Through the frame plot of a young student, Eustace Bright, retelling Greek myths to his little cousins, Nathaniel Hawthorne takes… Continue reading
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The Great Gatsby – American classic?
I completely missed the Gatsby craze of last year. Of course, I knew about it, but for whatever reason, it remained out of my sphere, something to do eventually. I’ve never read the book before or seen any film adaptations, and the net benefit is being able to read the book with a fresh perspective… Continue reading
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‘Lucia’, Your First Best Worst Opera
Romeo and Juliet in Scotland. That is the easiest way to sum up Gaetano Donizetti’s dramatic opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. It is, perhaps, unfair to summarize this opera so succinctly, when it is so famous, so much a “classic” of the opera genre. Following the links on Wikipedia, I learned that Lucia was based on a… Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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