The Big Issue features writer Ben Okri.
I was 16 in 1975, living in Lagos. The Nigerian civil war had been ended for five years and we were all dealing with the aftermath. I had finished secondary school about two years before and was preparing for my ALevels. I did a lot of reading. I read the Russians and the French, Maupassant and Chekhov, as well as Ibsen and Somerset Maugham, Jane Austen and the Brontës. I had discovered a lot of Penguin Classics in dusty bookshops. (Jane Graham)
BuzzFeed asked readers to share the 'Book They Wish They Could Read Again For The First Time' and one of them wrote:
33. "Wuthering Heights and Call Me By Your Name. I have never read anything like the writing in these books and will never again. Each page has something that is completely unique and some of the best work in literature to date. I wish I could experience them for the first time again."
—kate dugan (Raven Ishak)
AnneBrontë.org lists several Brontë anniversaries that took place last week.
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