A story is a fiction with a plot, as distinguished from a tale, which is a string...
Classic Articles on Writing
Classic articles on writing art some of the most interesting and telling works by past authors. Here you will find articles from the past by authors that range from the famous to the obscure.
The reputation of the author of "Twice-Told Tales" has been confined, until very lately, to literary society;...
The intro to the book is a classic (the book is too of course), and it is...
Review of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" by Willa Cather A Creole “Bovary” is this little novel of...
The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for...
This is the first in a series of articles we are running On Writing. We thought it...
n diagnosing this disease called humanity—to assume for the nonce what seems a chief mood of the...
This interview is from Hartford Daily Courant from May 30th 1888. Twain would have been 53 years...
My acquaintance with Stephen Crane was brought about by Mr. Pawling, partner in the publishing firm of...
Born in 1770; died in 1850; graduated from Cambridge in 1791; traveled on the Continent in 1790-92;...
My First Reading by Walt Whitman From 1824 to ’28 our family lived in Brooklyn in Front,...
We once in awhile, these days, like to publish an historic piece of writing that we find...
ABOUT once in so often you are due to lie awake at night. Why this is so...
In 1909 Ambrose Bierce famous for many of his works including An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...
The. time when the intellectual affairs of America could be conducted on a monolingual basis is over....
