One night, about the close of my fifth year at the school, and immediately after the altercation just mentioned, finding every one wrapped in sleep, I arose from bed, and, lamp in hand, stole through a wilderness of narrow passages from my own bedroom to that of my rival. I had long ...
Lots of stuff annoys readers—long passages in italics, omitting quotation marks, yada, yada—reported the WashingtonPostlast year. I wrote up these reader pet peeveshereandhere. One I share with thePostkvetchers is the tendency of authors to describe even the most incidental female character i...
However, Ruskin contributed to the English prose without employing the grand style or the antithesis and similes of Lylyan and the balance and parallelism of Johnson. Ruskin employed a flexible language and bent it according to his use. He used simple language in the eulogy, picture description,...
Today, however, I meandered around the port, taking the tiny passages and paths that lie in wait, hiding beside hedges and shuttered houses that look like they might lead me to some splendid secret cove or short cut home but instead weave and dive and leave me elsewhere altogether. So, I...
The BirdsBoth Alfred Hitchcock and Daphne du Maurier had a version of a story titled The Birds. Though both stories share a name theyre are completely...