Silas Marner and the Grace of Everyday Life
First published in 1861, Silas Marner was, in George Eliot’s own words, “a story of old-fashioned rural life.” But to read it only as a bucolic parable is to miss its deeper…
The Quiet Radicalism of a Canon: To Kill a Mockingbird
There are books that become so entrenched in the American educational canon, so lovingly embraced by…
Revisiting Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: The Lost Art of Romantic Integrity
More than two centuries after its publication, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice continues to assert itself—not…
A Garden of Good and Evil: East of Eden
Published in 1952, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is a bold, sprawling novel that stretches across…
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