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I think I read this in elementary school, so it was probably late 1980s to early 1990s (I was in elementary school between 1985 and 1992) in Ashland, KY. I don't think it was illustrated, or if it was, it was just a few sparse pen-and-ink drawings to set the scene. The basic plotline is that the ...
The recurring character Ariande Oliver (present in a number of Agatha Christie's novels) seems to be at least partially self-insertion by Christie (At the very least, both write mystery fiction stories featuring a foreign detective). Besides this superficial resemblance, how much does she actuall...
From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
What is the meaning of this phrase in plain English? What are "boards" here? Sides of the ship? Both sides of the ship were trying to ge...
I'll answer this by explaining how I handle these when they reach the moderator queue. We see a few distinct types.
First, you have Bob Blogger and Glen Github:
Click this link, it will solve yer problumz.
... May contain a solution, but unless it answers the question completely within th...
Reading Poetry Foundation's page on Thomas Hardy, I came across this description of his epic drama The Dynasts, set during the Napoleonic Wars and published in 1904-1908:
Hardy also pioneered a new kind of verse. According to John Wain’s introduction to the 1965 St. Martin’s Press edition of ...
I'm trying to remember a short story I read in high school about a sniper or lone gunman who fires into a parade of crowded people, killing dozens and, through a chain of events, disrupts the entire political and economic stability of the country (which was his intent from the start). He isn't tr...
