Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet, famous for works like Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to… Ann and Jane Taylor Ann Taylor (1782 - 1866), later Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, was an English poet and children’s author...
What we like: We have an old-fashioned preference for novels with plot, character and setting: memorable stories with memorable characters, told in a straightforward way. Genre novels (sci-fi, fantasy, erotic romance) have very little chance unless they transcend the genre to become literature....
The Mount is as much Wharton asThe Age of InnocenceorThe House of Mirth,her two most famous novels. Like a novel, it was constructed by a singular artistic vision laboring to make something grand and sublime. I asked my sons if they could see the whale yet. This time they barely bother...
The Egyptians’ medical skills were world-renowned in their day. They had observed by trial and error over millennia and written down the results of their experiments, so that a young doctor like Neferet could look in a casebook and see what her elders had done to treat those symptoms. A ...
Edith Wharton Author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence. Mark Twain Known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Iris Murdoch Irish author of A Severed Head and The Black Prince. William Shakespeare Renowned playwright of numerous classic plays. ...
“Do you think your parents will like me?” he said. He had spent the afternoon preparing for this visit as carefully as if he were preparing for an exam. He had gotten his hair cut, trimmed his nails, washed his neck and behind his ears. The outfit he had chosen, khaki pants and...