Orwell: An Author Profile
OrwellAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Honesty is not always welcome, in either the halls of power or the salons of culture; but there can be no art […]
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Hemingway: An Author Profile
HemingwayAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Hemingway’s matter and style both have proven some of the most profound influences upon American literature. The novelist Gertrude Stein, twenty-five years
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Student Essay: Resurrection in “A Tale of Two Cities”
Student Essay: Resurrection in A Tale of Two Cities By Katie Holford Both central and secondary characters in Dickens’ novel are defined in terms of miraculous restorations to
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Sartre: An Author Profile
SartreAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In Sartre, we meet an enigma—and a firebrand. Jean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the single most prominent existentialist philosopher in history. This is
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The Great Conversation: Love—Part III
The Great Conversation:Love—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard Romantic love has had a fascinating history in our intellectual tradition. Go here for Part I and Part II. Now we
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Solzhenitsyn: An Author Profile
SolzhenitsynAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard An author who saw most of the twentieth century from the vantage point of two of the greatest world powers, Solzhenitsyn offers
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Student Essay: The Spirit of “Macbeth”
Student Essay: The Spirit of Macbeth By Chizaram Ugochuku Macbeth not only ignores, but exactly reverses, the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount—and reaps the inevitable consequences.
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Proust: An Author Profile
ProustAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Proust shaped twentieth-century literature not only in his native France, but throughout the English-speaking world. The nineteenth century was a period of
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Student Essay: In Search of “The King’s Gold”
Student Essay: In Search of The King’s Gold By Alexa Atkinson The vicissitudes of the devout life are masterfully portrayed in Cheney’s novel. Edyth Wilsey has spent her
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Student Essay: A Chorus of Murders
Student Essay: A Chorus of Murders By Aurora Muggeridge What makes for a sympathetic villain in Greek tragedy? Æschylus’ Clytemnestra and Euripides’ Medea are two wrathful women who
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