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Alice in Wonderland.

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I can’t even remember why, but for some reason recently I had a desire to read Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. I pulled up a copy of the e-text from Project Gutenberg. I hadn’t read the little volume in years. How had it become a classic piece of literature? From all I could [...]

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His Dark Materials Trilogy (Philip Pullman).

Philip Pullman is a master in the literary genre. I have rarely read novels with such beauty and depth. His Dark Materials is a trilogy of works including the books The Golden Compass1, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. These works are rather recent but already deserve to be considered amongst the classics fantasy [...]

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