Years ago I read a novel about a poor young man, I believe the son of Jewish immigrants, who started with a pushcart and rose to become a prosperous businessman. I can't remember anything about it except his first sexual experience, when a street-wise girl put her hand down his pants and he was s...
I am reading the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the translation by Anthony Bonner published in 1962 by Bantam Books.
In chapter 20 around the 16th paragraph on pg. 163 begins:
On January 2, we had traveled 11,340 miles, or 5,250 leagues from our point...
I did some rese...
According to the dictionary epilogue means
a speech or piece of text that is added to the end of a play or book,
often giving a short statement about what happens to the characters
after the play or book finishes.
When I read book sometime I skip epilogue section and finished my reading...
In 19th century fiction, there are a lot of references to moneylenders as "Jews". For example, in "Framley Parsonage", by Anthony Trollope, Lord Lufton says "the pocket-books of the Jews are stuffed full of his dishonoured papers".
What is the purpose of these references? Would 19th century rea...
I had forgotten how bad the answers to thatquestion were.
It finally recieved a decent answer which of course is burried under those two really bad answers.
Imagine writing an answer to a question about why African Americans worked as cotton pickers but not mentioning slavery or racism once. That's what those answers do. It's absolutely ridiculous.
In her book, ‘Hermogenes and the Renaissance’, Annabel Patterson cites a paper by George Kustas (‘The Function and Evolution of Byzantine Rhetoric’ in Viator, University of California Press, Vol I, 1970) that she summarises.
In the summary (n6, pp 6/7), she states, without elaborating further, ...
Beatrix Potter is much beloved of children and adults alike. Known mostly for cozy stories like Peter Rabbit, she almost seemed to break the mold with the lesser known classic The Tale of Two Bad Mice, which may well be her most transgressive narrative.
It's well known than Hunca Munca and h...
I am reading the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in the translation by Anthony Bonner published in 1962 by Bantam Books.
In chapter 20 around the 16th paragraph on pg. 163 begins:
On January 2, we had traveled 11,340 miles, or 5,250 leagues from our point...
I did some rese...
According to the dictionary epilogue means
a speech or piece of text that is added to the end of a play or book,
often giving a short statement about what happens to the characters
after the play or book finishes.
When I read book sometime I skip epilogue section and finished my reading...
In 19th century fiction, there are a lot of references to moneylenders as "Jews". For example, in "Framley Parsonage", by Anthony Trollope, Lord Lufton says "the pocket-books of the Jews are stuffed full of his dishonoured papers".
What is the purpose of these references? Would 19th century rea...
Beatrix Potter is much beloved of children and adults alike. Known mostly for cozy stories like Peter Rabbit, she almost seemed to break the mold with the lesser known classic The Tale of Two Bad Mice, which may well be her most transgressive narrative.
It's well known than Hunca Munca and h...
