Madame Bovary, French Realism Novel
By Lechi Eke
Madame Bovary is a
tragic story of adultery written and published in series in the Revue de...
Identifying Literary Realism
By Lechi Eke
In this edition of Inside Literature, we will show how a reader or a student of...
INSIDE LITERATURE: The Victorian Era
By Lechi Eke
The Victorian Era was like the Elizabethan Era, a golden age for Britain. The period witnessed...
George Eliot’s Middlemarch, a Novel for Grown-ups
By Lechi Eke
Middlemarch is George Eliot’s magnum opus: a novel she wrote when she was in her 50s....
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Premier Poet-Critic from the Romantic School
By Lechi Eke
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a lay preacher, a
dissenting pamphleteer at the beginning of the French...
Waiting for an Angel
Waiting for an Angel explores the themes of literary naturalism of survival, determinism, violence and taboo
Awards-winning Helon Habila’s...
Setting, Structure and Meaning in Jude Idada’s award-winning Boom Boom
Jude Idada’s award-winning Boom Boom is a story told in a linear structure, with setting in Lagos
The Storyline
Akachi Adimora-Ezigbo’s Award-Winning My Cousin Sammy
Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s My Cousin Sammy is written for younger teenagers. It is made up of 101 pages of narration in ten chapters...
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
By Lechi Eke
Jane Eyre is a Victorian novel of 38 chapters published in series (three volumes). It was...
My grandmother, her gods and I (1)
My grandmother, her gods and I
By Okey Anueyiagu
When I was about eight years old...