The good news has just come through that the Cleveland Street Workhouse, one of the very few surviving 18th-century workhouses, has been listed, and gained therefore a stay of execution. Instead of being turned into another (yawn) block of ‘luxury’ flats (does anyone ever put up flats that are projected
Tag: English literature
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Goodreads is a website that was set up so people could share their views about books. In web terms, it is just a larger group of friends, all with a common enthusiasm. So far, so uncontentious. But now Goodreads has decided that 4.6m ‘friends’ is not enough. It has bought
Reviews, it should be unnecessary to state, are not generally libellous, even when they are sour, bad-tempered and malign. Sounds uncontentious, no? But in France, a case has been working its way through the courts, attempting to prove just the opposite. In 2007 a professor at NYU’s School of Law,
According to Renaissance Learning, an ‘education company’ (no, I don’t know what that means either. They sell books? Blackboards? Teachers?), who surveyed over 150,000 children’s reading habits in primary and secondary schools, the twelfth favourite book of 14-16-year-old girls was The Very Hungry Caterpillar, that cardboard-backed thriller for the ankle-biter
The BBC has provided a list of 100 books, and asks how many you have read, adding the helpful suggestion that the average person will have read 6 out of the 100. Which doesn’t sound very average to me. And what is with this list anyway? The Complete Works of
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