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Charles Dickens’s Alternate Ending to Great Expectations
Charles Dickens’s Alternate Ending to Great Expectations
By Emma Kantor
August 01, 2014

On the anniversary of its publication, the final chapter of this Victorian classic continues to baffle.

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What Great Expectations Would Look Like Today
What Great Expectations Would Look Like Today
By Adina Applebaum
August 01, 2014

Written in 2014, Charles Dickens’s serialized novel would be released on Twitter — and be a hell of a lot shorter.

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Kill Your Darlings: 7 of the Most WTF Deaths in Literature
Kill Your Darlings: 7 of the Most WTF Deaths in Literature
By Freddie Moore
May 13, 2014

Could all of these deaths make it into a song unsoundly titled “Ironic?” See for yourself, Alanis Morissette.

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The Book Isn’t Always Better: 9 Bizarre Movie-to-Book Adaptations
The Book Isn’t Always Better: 9 Bizarre Movie-to-Book Adaptations
By Adina Applebaum
March 24, 2014

Novelizations of films based on screenplays inspired by books — what a clusterfuck.

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