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Classic Literature Reading Challege

Read a classic over the holidays.

 

1)     Improve your vocabulary

2)     Increase your knowledge

3)     Read something of value

4)     Understand history and cultural context

5)     Enrich your own life

6)     Challenge your brain

7)     Knowledge is power

8)     Share in the human experience

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Victorian Christmas - Make Your Own Victorian Christmas Cards

William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' Act 1 Scene 1: Translation (1 of 60)

Frankenstein context

Animal Farm

Guardsman Tromans Simon Armitage's 'Remains'

'London' analysis

SparkNotes: Macbeth

Alexander Gordon Smith

Frankenstein: the noble savage

'Storm on the Island' analysis

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