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At Home with Dickens

Eleanor Bourg Donlon

From Disney movies to the most recent bestseller, children are born to escape the confines of familial failure. No hero is worth his salt unless and until he casts...

Hard Times for Great Books

Eleanor Bourg Donlon

In November 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts published a report titled To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence . Building on its earlier...