In V.E. Schwab’s wonderful novel “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue”, the eponymous character enters into a Faustian bargain with a dark god, exchanging her soul for immortality. What follows is a deeply thoughtful exploration of identity and memory – exactly how much do we need people to remember

😍Recommended Level: 4.5 out of 5 Language is a tool of communication, but it is also a force for constructing our understanding of reality and our experience of our own humanity. In R.F. Kuang’s gripping novel, ‘‘Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the

😍Recommended Level: 4.2 out of 5 In a world where knowledge is power, and power is control, the quest for truth can be both a dangerous and revelatory expedition. In his Wool Omnibus, Hugh Howey has placed the reader in a dystopian future where humans eke out an existence

In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong. 在中国，任何超脱飞扬的思想都会砰然坠地的，现实的引力太沉重了。 ——Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" Set during the Cultural Revolution of China, The Three-Body Problem traces the story of Ye

In his 2021 novel of speculative fiction, Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir whisks the reader on a grand tour of the galaxy that is as much a hymn to the power of human intelligence and the scientific method as it is a moving reflection on heroism, friendship and the search

1. Introduction The core concept of the Age of Enlightenment is "reason" which triggered considerable philosophical and other intellectual outcomes (Outram, 2006; Weber, 1992). In this respect, academia obtained an opportunity to develop in not only humanity and arts but also science (Zafirovski, 2010). In the Enlightenment discourse,

Introduction Throughout the Industrial Revolution, the manual labour mode of production on manufacturing and agriculture has been transforming into a mechanisedpattern (Stearns, 2012). The capitalist classes, who acquire considerable wealth compared with the lower poor class, emerges from this trend (Stearns, 2012). With relatively new political opinions and significant fortune,

Since its publication in 1898, the Turn of the Screw has been interpreted in diversified approaches by different schools. Multiple individuals (Heilman, 1947, Elliot, 1981) regard it as a pure supernatural thriller, but the majority of the rest (Goddard, 1957, Wilson, 1991) utilises psychoanalysis method to decipher it. In this

To what extent does Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ complement feminist theory? Your essay should include detailed analysis of the text, as well as references to specific works of feminist theory. Introduction The Yellow Wallpaper, a novella presented in the first person by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The United States of America faced a rapid growth in the economy after industrialization occurred in 1860. This material prosperity and economic development had been unmatched from the end of World War I (1918) until the Great Depression (1929) which is known as the Jazz Age (Maier et al., 2006)

In ‘A Stone Woman’, Ines was gradually turning to stone after her mother’s death. The short story details two things in Ines: her flesh and her stone. In the life of Ines, there is a constant process of transformation and her sense of the world changes. Therefore, Ines has

Medusa, a poem by Carol Ann Duffy, will be the piece of poetry selected for discussion. The poem describes Medusa undergoing the change to a gorgon and turning a number of living things to stone. Medusa starts with a ‘buzzing bee’ and goes on to the creatures escalating in size