... kill his father and marry his mother. Therefore, they arranged for the child's death. However, he was rescued and grew to adulthood in another kingdom. As an adult, Oedipus meets a strange man on the road and kills him, never knowing that he is actually his father. When he reaches the next kingdom, he learns that the king has mysteriously died, and Oedipus himself becomes king, marrying ... the former king's wife, who of course is his mother. When Oedipus finds out what he has ... mystery will never lie open, naked and exposed, because there are always deeper layers to be uncovered. Fi...

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... character Victorians prized respectability, earnestness, a sense of duty and public service; most would have regarded an industrious, pious conventionality as the best road not only to material recompense but to heavenly rewards as well. Yet the fabled self-confidence of this overachieving society often rings hollow. Their literature conveys an uneasy sense that their obsession with work was in ... unostentatious, and strictly private manner". OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (1865), the second last novel Dickens wrote, started with a murder mystery. In the opening chapter a drowned man is found floati...

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