I'm looking for an early childhood book - something around the age range of the Frog and Toad books - 1st-2nd grade (US). I actually thought for a long time that it was in the Frog and Toad books but I can't find any evidence of it in those books. I do think that the characters in the books were ...
I am currently reading Gene Stratton-Porter's "A Girl of the Limberlost." It's the first time I've ever read anything by her.
I have not read anything by Eleanor H. Porter, but have seen a "flickification" of her "Pollyanna."
Their writing styles, or motifs, anyway, seem similar; were they rela...
In the discussion of Directive 10-289, Jim Taggart said the following:
Jim Taggart spoke first. His voice was low, but it had the trembling intensity of an involuntary scream: "Well, why not? Why should they have it, if we don't? Why should they stand above us? If we are to perish, let's make...
In my copy of The Souls of Black Folk, the essay "Of the Bible Belt" references Jews as the inheritors of much property and land in the deep South.
A footnote in the book, however, reads:
In later editions of The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois changes all references to "Jews" to "immigrants."...
In the famous novel by Mikhail Lermontov "Hero of our time" Pechorin, the main hero of the novel is presented to have all the vices of human-kind. The prologue Lermontov says that, I paraphrase, the more clever reader will see in Pechorin him/herself, and other people, that Pechorin is the accumu...
