Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston, the child of actors who died while he was...
Historic Articles by Authors
I Am Not An Animal Expert! by Jack London This is one of our historical articles from...
But it was on a bench in Washington Square that I saw the most of Louis Stevenson....
A story is a fiction with a plot, as distinguished from a tale, which is a string...
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,...
So from time to time we love finding things like this. It’s a little piece of history,...
