Tag: classics
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Keeping Christmas
The Ghosts of Christmas taught Scrooge to keep Christmas with charity; they also taught him to keep it with joy.
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Two Classics
I read two classics this past summer: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Dostoevsky’s Devils. I was maybe two hundred pages into Devils when I realized, with a measure of surprise, that the book reminded me of Jane Austen. Not the political revolution, of course, or the atheism and murder; the book’s conclusion, in which Dostoevsky…