So much for the more civilized apple trees (urbaniores, as Pliny calls them). I love better to...
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.
Prices for the customary kinds of winter fuel having reached an altitude which puts them out of...
The profession of letters has been lately debated in the public prints; and it has been debated,...
To interest readers is obviously the prime object in all popular writing. The basis of interest in...
Submitting Your Story Because literature is an art and you have a leaning toward it, do not...
If the Letter is to be in answer to another, begin by getting out that other letter...
My old Mayo woman told me one day that something very bad had come down the road...
have seen a quantity of things here—churches, palaces, statues, fountains, and pictures; and my brain is...
There is an old saying that God is a circle whose centre is everywhere. If that is...
A Happy Hour’s Command by Walt Whitman Down in the Woods, July 2d, 1882.-If I do it...
Growth, Health, and Work by Walt Whitman I develop’d (1833-4-5) into a healthy, strong youth (grew too...
To Mrs. Grover Cleveland, in Washington: Hartford, Nov. 6, 1887. My Dear Madam,—I do not know how...
Rules of Tragic Plot by Aristotle In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper...
The Shrinkage of the Planet What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its...
An English Critic on Mark Twain An English Critic on Mark Twain: Perhaps the most successful flights of...
