7 Retellings of the Classics

For when you’ve already read Circe and The Song of Achilles

Claire Handscombe

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Photo by Susan Wilkinson on Unsplash

When classics feel a little intimidating, a good way in can be retellings. There are a lot of great ones around these days, and they introduce diversity into the often very white, very heterosexual world of Western fairylates, Greek myth, Jane Austen novels, or Shakespearean plays. Circe and Song of Achilles are two…

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Claire Handscombe

Editor of WALK WITH US: How the West Wing Changed Our Lives; author of the novel UNSCRIPTED and of CONQUERING BABEL: a Practical Guide to Learning a Language.