… so perplexing as the last words of Station Chief Kurtz. The horror, the horror. What was he speaking of? There is the obvious of course, the dread involved with losing one's sanity, the terror at what might happen when one's crimes come to light,…

… originally wrote Frankenstein as a short story in 1816. Her and three others made a bet as to who could write the best horror story, and Shelley decided to write Frankenstein based on reoccurring dreams she was having. After completing the short story,…

… la tregua pero para empezar, quiero decir que no estoy totalmente de acuerdo con el título. En efecto, en mi opinión, y aunque una tregua sea un momento bastante breve (en ese libro, se trata de un tregua en la rutina de un hombre sin esperanza),…

… Study in the Overuse of Symbolism The Scarlet Letter is considered to be the first psychological novel, dealing with the interworkings of the characters’ minds rather than with their actions. In this novel, acclaimed as Hawthorne’s masterpiece,…

… of the Heart”. I thought both stories had a lot in common but there were some differences. For instance, “Escape from Slavery” had a different setting, characters, and climax from “Journey of the Heart”. “Escape from Slavery” was setting in…

… different people. The stories are of Lena Grove, Joe Christmas, and Reverend Gail Hightower. They were all linked in one way or another, even if they never met. Lena was a simple country girl. However, she was an orphan. But this was one thing…

… with the news that a wealthy man named Mr. Bingley has arrived in a nearby town. Mrs. Bennet, whose only purpose in life is to marry off her daughters, encourages her husband to get aquainted with Mr. Bingley. Mr Bingley begins to fall in love with Jane…

… 1789-1989 Frederick S. Calhoun Smithsonian Institution Press 1989 309 pgs Frederick S. Calhoun became the first official historian for the U.S. Marshal Service in the early eighties. He attended the University of Chicago where…

… of written literature there have been times when the author perceives the characters of their story in many different ways. For instance, at the beginning of a story a character could be portrait as a hero by the author. However, as the story…

… Browning Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning accounts for the actions of the German Order Police ( more specifically the actions of Reserve Police Battalion 101in Poland) and the role they played in the Second World War during the Jewish…