Harry Potter has just turned 25 in print! That is, millions of readers are celebrating 25 years of magic and fantasy in this wizarding world. Continue reading
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“Have you ever considered transporting yourself to another era, a totally different life from the one you are used to?” (Celia Sánchez, 4ESO)
“What would you do if you had to live in the middle of the Industrial Revolution?” (Yaiza Mayo, 4ESO) Continue reading
On February 1922 , Ulysses was published as a novel for the first time. And it had to be in Paris, not in Joyce´s own country, Ireland, where it was forbidden for being considered too obscene. Continue reading
On this 8th of March, 4th year ESO students have reflected on what it meant to be a woman in the 18th and 19th centuries. They have done it through the eyes of the female characters in the three historical novels they have read:
We all know injustices still sadly being part of our world nowadays. Even though the society has changed, imagine how women´s lives could have been two or three centuries ago. (Lucía Wasiluk) Continue reading
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of loneliness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity… 
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These words, which could have been written in this day and age, were written in the 19th century and certainly provide food for thought.. With one of the most famous and promising opening sentences in literature, Dickens sets A tale of two cities at times of the French Revolution; in an epoch of aristocratic corruption and outrageous luxury while common people starved… It was such an unbearable situation that it led revolutionaries to rise up against the powerful. Continue reading
North and South is a remarkable piece of Victorian literature which features relevant social issues regarding industrialization and class struggle in mid-19th century England.
The author, Elizabeth Gaskell, based the fictional industrial town of Milton and its factory workers´ hardship on Manchester, where she spent many years, and on her own neighbours’ lives. But this book is also a novel of contrasts and she highlights the disparities between life in the smoky and dusty north and life in the refined southern countryside. Continue reading
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