As the title says, what does GKC mean when in the beginning of The Defence of Skeletons in The Defendant he says "trees that seemed to take hold upon the stars like a brood of Ygdrasils"? I know what Ygdrasil is, but does this take hold upon mean that the tree is rooted in/upon those stars (which...

so at a school I no longer go to (sydney, australia, early 2010s, the book was in english) i read this book in the library that was a collection of Aesops. and the author had this very distinctive style that I feel has heavily influenced me in my own writing even now. the book was pretty tall th...

Miroslav Krleža was one of the most important 20th-century Croatian authors. He published poetry, novels, novellas, short stories and plays. The English Wikipedia article about him has the following to say about one of his plays: Golgota is another play, political in nature.[citation needed] I ...