What Would Jane Do?
Posted November 23rd, 2009 by adminHow a 19th-century spinster serves as a moral compass in today’s world
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Book Review: ‘Charles Dickens’ - WSJ.com
Posted November 23rd, 2009 by adminThe Inimitable
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Read more >>>LOVE OF HEMINGWAY BRINGS CUBA AND THE U.S. CLOSER TOGETHER
Posted July 6th, 2009 by adminIn the political arena, the two nations have been bitter enemies since the 1960s, but a great writer’s enduring legacy has been uniting Cubans and Americans together in a peaceful and friendly endeavor.
Even 48 years after his death (in July 1961), Ernest Hemingway is doing more to improve the relations between the two countries than [...]
What Are You Reading?
Posted June 7th, 2008 by adminSummertime is sometimes equated with picking up a good book and losing yourself in another world; a bit of escape perhaps from the day-to-day rat race that is life. You may wish to delve into a classic, or you may be more interested in the newest thriller or romance novel. Whatever your fancy, the choices [...]
Read more >>>Spotlight: Simply Shakespeare
Posted March 22nd, 2008 by adminAh, Shakespeare…viewed as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) writers in the English language, Shakespeare’s works consists of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His works have been translated into almost every language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
William Shakespeare (April [...]
Spotlight: Simply Hemingway
Posted January 12th, 2008 by adminOne of the greatest novelists in history, Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor and his mother was a singing instructor who dressed him, as a toddler, in girl’s clothing to match his older sister—she badly wanted twins and he had failed to be a pair.
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Spotlight: Simply Yeats
Posted October 25th, 2007 by admin“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
The above is a quote from William Butler Yeats, a Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist. Yeats was born in 1865 and studied in London. From an early age, he was interested [...]
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