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Oscar Wilde’s Wit

ByBabette February 8, 2025February 8, 2025

Oscar Wilde’s Wit: 10 Quotes That Will Make You Smirk If literary sass were an Olympic sport, Oscar Wilde would have taken home gold every time. The Irish playwright, poet, and all-around literary troublemaker was famous for his razor-sharp wit, flamboyant personality, and scathing social critiques wrapped in humor so clever it could cut glass….

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Victorian Lit Dickens

ByBabette January 30, 2025

What We Can Learn from Dickens’ Long-Windedness Ah, Charles Dickens—the undisputed king of never-ending sentences, elaborate descriptions, and characters with names that sound like inside jokes. Reading his novels can feel like running a marathon through a maze of words. But before you shake your fist at Bleak House and give up halfway through David…