One Thursday evening, four or five men assembled for dinner at a friend's home near London. But as the evening passed, their host failed to appear. Finally, at half past sev...
One Thursday evening, four or five men assembled for dinner at a friend's home near London. But as the evening passed, their host failed to appear. Finally, at half past seve...
Rizal, for all the agitation his writings produced, never called for outright revolt against the Spanish colonizers. On the contrary, his explicit statements never ceased to s...
Conforming Opinions
In the early 1950's a few young writers started a movement that was carefree and rebellious, it was considered anti-establishment. These writers bec...
Utopian Texts
Chronological List of Utopian Texts
Note: not all of these texts are necessarily 'utopias' in the strict sense (whether there can be said to be a stric...
Andrew Wiggin, the third in a family of geniuses, is selected by the international military forces to save the world from assured destruction. Although Valenti...
Those of you who are familiar with the work of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. have surely come across the name Kilgore Trout in his novels. He is one of the author's favorite fictional ch...
This book is fictional, yet based on fact. It is an entertaining mystery by Candace
Robb. When Candace Robb was a child she loved books. She promised herself
that she wou...
This book is fictional, yet based on fact. It is an entertaining mystery by Candace
Robb. When Candace Robb was a child she loved books. She promised herself
that she w...
This book is fictional, yet based on fact. It is an entertaining mystery by Candace
Robb. When Candace Robb was a child she loved books. She promised herself
that she wou...
was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine and is of Scots-Irish ancestry. When King was two years old, his father deserted his family. His mother, Nellie Ruth Pillsbury...
Date: January 10, 2006
The War of the World Final Essay
H.G Wells was a scientific thinker and social mystic. One of the most widely read writers of his times; he explored t...
One of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories, The Tell-Tale Heart,'' was first published in the January, 1843 edition of James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer and was r...
For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. Bradbury offered an insight into what t...
For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. Bradbury offered an insight into what t...
This book is fictional, yet based on fact. It is an entertaining mystery by Candace
Robb. When Candace Robb was a child she loved books. She promised herself
that she w...
Discourses in a novel often allow people in the know, to understand particular meaning within certain topics or issues. For instance, a discourse of Calculus in a novel would...