Towards the end of his book, The Moveable Feast, about his times as an expatriate American in Paris, he quotes a conversation he overhears in an Inn, somewhere in the Swiss Alps which he is visiting along with his wife. A woman exclaimed angrily that it was these lecturers that led Germany to i...

I just spent the last 5 hours browsing through google, pinterest, and eBay in an attempt to find a beautifully illustrated book I loved as a child. I remember what it is generally about, but I have not the slightest recollection of any names (title, author, illustrator, publisher, characters). I ...

I was wondering if somebody would be able to help me find the title of a book that I read around 14 years ago. All I can remember about the story is that it was about a boy named Milo, who ends up losing his eye brows and running away from home - the overall plot, from memory, was that he somehow...

Near the middle of That Hideous Strength, Wither says to the Fairy: If a mere arrest could have secured the — er — good will and collaboration of Mrs. Studdock, we should hardly have embarrassed ourselves with the presence of her husband. This statement seems to imply that the only reas...