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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...

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...

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

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)...

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

same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

eventually escapes with the same hopes that one day he may win the love of Emelye. While hiding in the bushes he sees Arcite and h...

life was perhaps like in Medieval times. Looking at each individual story, however, would take a considerable amount of time an...

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

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 ...

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

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

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

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

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...

relishes the fact that he finally has the opportunity to share what he considers to be his innate brilliance. He knows that this ...

but more than that he is dedicated to God in his heart. The Parson is an example of a man who lives in accordance with what he pr...

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

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...

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

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

told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...