In "The Quick One" by G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown was talking to his friend, saying:
Didn’t you see how that old man, with the heart of a lion, stood up and forgave his enemy as only fighters can forgive? He jolly well did do what that temperance lecturer talked about; he set an example to us...
The following extract is from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I'd like to know:
What the "it" refers to. Does the "it" refer to the circumstances in general?
If so, in what ways were the circumstances different?
Whether "the science" refers to modern natural philosophy or alchemy.
Besides, I h...
I’m reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Osacr Wilde, I have read first few pages and I really really admire it.
But what’s pestering me is when Basil says things like “I meet him [Dorian Gray], I cannot be happy without meeting him”, “He, too, felt that we were destined to be introduced” (no ve...
In "The Quick One" by G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown was talking to his friend about a murder that happened in hotel lounge after a very serious altercation between two men because of another man's speech about the teetotalism saying:
‘Well,’ said Father Brown, with broad-minded calm, ‘you start...
As I mentioned in an earlier question, it is a little-known fact that Maupassant did not only write narrative prose but also plays.
The French Wikipedia article lists several plays by Maupassant:
Histoire du vieux temps (1879)
Une répétition (1880)
Musotte (1891)
La Paix du ménage (1893)
After ...
