I’ll twine ‘mid the ringlets Of my raven black hair, The lilies so pale And the roses so fair. Without argument one of the most charming, intriguing, and captivating of all early American folk poems and songs is The Wildwood Flower. Its haunting tale has arrested the fascination and loyalty of untold thousands. A major feature of [...]
Before you drop $300 on that Garmin automobile navigation system, you may be wondering if you should stick with free online driving directions. After all, Yahoo and Google map developers are ambitiously working with cell phone application developers and carriers to offer mapping capabilities right on your mobile phone. In a few years’ time, a [...]
Thomas Paine shocked early America with his writing, almost to the point of getting himself in trouble or killed. What possesses a man to do such a thing? Was it his strong convictions, why did he attack the bible, point out its contradictions and print his findings? Why was he so adamant about this endeavor [...]
Undoubtedly, we would have all come across the life and the work of the famous writer Ernest Hemingway. Certainly, nobody could make a connection between Hemingway and a hunting expedition in the wilderness. All those who read his books will be more familiar with his swashbuckling stories on bull fighting, hard living and drinking. He [...]
Charles Dickens is one of the best known authors of the 19th Century and probably one of the best all time story tellers. His imagination has given birth to classics such as A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and many more. The amazing thing about the stories of Dickens is the messages with in [...]
Waiting for Godot is indeed a traditional farce and burlesque. Burlesque by definition is “A literary or dramatic work that ridicules a subject either by presenting a solemn subject in an undignified style or an inconsequential subject in a dignified style” and it is marvelously depicted in waiting for Godot. Farce is such dramatic work [...]
Literature is a world of “artificial” constructions, built to have us experience something. Language is the main construction tool but in this language we find all kinds of symbolic constructions. In fact it is not too different than symbols in (business) life. The first scene of a novel often marks the setting, the opening is [...]
Samuel Clemens, more popularly known as Mark Twain, had written a number of great novels including many in the spirits of adventures. However, no other novel either by Twain or by any other author ever matches the unique flavor of two of Twain’s novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom [...]
‘Dracula,’ one of the most famous novels ever written, had been produced as a movie in 1931. The movie in itself earned a lot of fame till Frankenstein eclipsed it. However, there are significant differences among the characters in the movie with the original novel. The primary character Count Dracula remains the same. Bela Lugosi [...]
Daniel Defoe was born in 1659 at St. Gille’s, Cripplegate in London. He was a man of many shades. These different personal traits are reflected in his literary contribution. He had done a numerous occupation during his life time. Some of his important masterpieces like “Essay on Progects “(1698), “The True born English Man” (1701), [...]