Welcome to One Bright Book! Rebecca and Frances move out of the picture for this bonus episode where Dorian gets a chance to finally discuss VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray with his one time professor and always friend, Rohan Maitzen. A rare and special opportunity to revisit the book from the syllabus that he blew off reading. "You can never entirely escape your sins!" Ready for some time well-spent in the 19th century?

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Books Mentioned:

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
• Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

You can find Rohan's blog Novel Readings here: https://rohanmaitzen.com/novelreadings/

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