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healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

well. Interestingly enough, when small businesses make millions other innovations and turned into larger businesses, sometimes th...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...

survived and were content with that. The little girl, however, was not happy with such a life. She wanted more. But, she never c...