The Tech Advocate recommends 'The Best Dark Academia Gift Ideas for Literature Lovers' including
⦁ Vintage Leather-bound Books: Classic works by authors like Edgar Allan Poe or Emily Brontë. (Matthew Lynch)
This merciful ethos transformed storytelling in the last half of the 20th century with the retconning of established villains. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) reimagined Charlotte Brontë’s Bertha Mason as a mistreated, wrongly imprisoned Caribbean heiress instead of the violent adulteress in Jane Eyre. John Gardner’s Grendel (1971) recast the monster of Beowulf as a stymied philosopher. In the years since, nearly every classic villain bent on frustrating the happily ever after of a Snow White, Little Mermaid, or Sleeping Beauty has been reconfigured as a misunderstood victim of prejudice or bad luck. (Paul Marchbanks)
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