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In many ways, Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an early example of an Irony, a precursor...

Graham Greene’s novel Brighton Rock is an interesting example of an Irony, a story which draws its power from the classic patterns and...

Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) an English novelist and poet, regarded himself primarily as a poet, though his first collection was not...

Philip Larkin has been called the other English poet laureate, though he is widely read in Europe and in the United States. Larkin’s idea...

Imagine a story which begins with death. A young man who has lost his father is being brought up by a close family member, but encounters...

H. G. Wells. the scientific rationalist and author, famous for the novels The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine and...

In Charles Dickens' Ironic masterpiece Great Expectations, it's not difficult to spot our protagonist. The opening of the novel labours...

’Initially, Watchmen gained a lot of its readership because it was taking an unusual look at superheroes, but actually it was more about...

Endings in stories are incredibly important, but many would-be writers get lost in a labyrinth soon after starting and never make it to...

It’s peculiar that V’s mask from Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel V for Vendetta has become an iconic representation of the ‘Anonymous’...