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Forgotten Classics: The Banality of Evil in Austen’s Northanger Abbey

Felix James Miller October 26, 2024

Jane Austen helps us to see that evil is a very ordinary thing.

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Forgotten Classics: Tradition, Modernity, and the Inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof

Felix James Miller September 29, 2024

Sholem Aleichem’s tales of faith and parenthood remain powerful stories with relevance for raising children in our troubled age.

Forgotten Classics: A Christmas Carol, Fezziwig, and Love for the Least of These

Felix James Miller December 23, 2023

Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity.

Forgotten Classics: Everyday Evils in Marie Belloc Lowndes’ The Lodger

Felix James Miller October 28, 2023

This novel, inspired by the murders of Jack the Ripper, ultimately forces readers to confront the evil that exists within their own breasts.

Forgotten Classics: Thinking About the Roman Empire? Check Out Livy’s Works

Felix James Miller September 30, 2023

Stories—whether of real or fictional events—hold a unique place in human life, delighting, causing wonder, captivating the imagination, purging the emotions, and even encouraging moral growth.

Forgotten Classics: Imagining Better Futures with Robert Hugh Benson’s The Dawn of All

Felix James Miller July 29, 2023

The future need not be bleak, as Benson’s novel reminds us.

Forgotten Classics: Interest and Presence in Tove Jansson’s Summer Book

Felix James Miller July 1, 2023

Despite her own failings, Sophia’s grandmother offers us a model of presence and love.

Forgotten Classics: Family, Wealth, and Modernity in The Magnificent Ambersons

Felix James Miller May 27, 2023

The Magnificent Ambersons engages with issues of technological and social change in modernity. But it is also a very human story, focusing on a single family, detailing the lives of its members as change rocks their way of life

Forgotten Classics: Three Men in a Boat, Humor, and Humility

Felix James Miller April 29, 2023

An honest sense of one’s own failings and shortcomings is part of what makes levity possible. One of the best books I know for inculcating humility through humor is Jerome K. Jerome’s novel, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).

Forgotten Classics: On Reading Louis De Wohl’s The Spear During Holy Week

Felix James Miller April 1, 2023

The Spear serves as a lectio divina of sorts, that is, as an opportunity to imagine oneself in the action of the Holy Scriptures.

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Forgotten Classics: The Banality of Evil in Austen’s Northanger Abbey

Forgotten Classics: Tradition, Modernity, and the Inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof

Forgotten Classics: A Christmas Carol, Fezziwig, and Love for the Least of These

Forgotten Classics: Everyday Evils in Marie Belloc Lowndes’ The Lodger

Forgotten Classics: Thinking About the Roman Empire? Check Out Livy’s Works

Forgotten Classics: Imagining Better Futures with Robert Hugh Benson’s The Dawn of All

Forgotten Classics: Interest and Presence in Tove Jansson’s Summer Book

Forgotten Classics: Family, Wealth, and Modernity in The Magnificent Ambersons

Forgotten Classics: Three Men in a Boat, Humor, and Humility

Forgotten Classics: On Reading Louis De Wohl’s The Spear During Holy Week

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