Understanding of literary texts can be greatly enhanced by an appreciation of the context within which their authors lived and worked. Each of these volumes focuses on an individual writer, offering ...

Yet, while it's a romantic notion to claim that Dostoevsky alone possessed such incisive self-awareness, his revival on ...

This gothic tale revolves around an unnamed young ... Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. “I hope she will be a beautiful fool” is a direct reference to Daisy Buchanan ...

For fans of TTW, here’s another helping of kooky Gothic, this time with more horror than romance, set in and around Highgate cemetery in London. Middle-aged Elspeth, a rare-book dealer, dies of ...

It not only strengthens the bonds between parents and their children but also promotes cognitive and emotional development. This collection of reading quotes features great literary figures such as Dr ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and ...

The Gothic period, spanning roughly from the 12th to the 16th century, remains one of the most significant epochs in the development of Western arts, literature, and architecture. Emerging in the ...

Centuries of grime has been wiped away to reveal an immaculate but aesthetically dissonant house of worship: a Gothic church that glistens. “The world will find again this cathedral rebuilt and ...