It is often the case a literary work of a foreign language is introduced by a native speaker who translates it into his mother tongue, but for some languages which are diffcult or for other reasons, the literary work of the transalator's mother tongue is also translated into a foreign language fo...

In "The Odyssey," Odysseus is characterized as polytroupus. (An interesting analogy: The fox, Odysseus, knows many things; but the hedgehog, Achilles, knows one big thing.) My question is if there is any rationale as to the particular selection and multiplicity of the tribulations of Odysseus. As...

From Five Children and It by E. Nesbit: 'What'll you take for him?' she said excitedly. 'Anything in reason. We'd have a special van built—leastways, I know where there's a second-hand one would do up handsome - what a baby elephant had, as died. What'll you take? He's soft, ain't he? Them giant...

Vicki charged down the front to dance beside girls she did not know but who meet her eye and smile at her as they leap and bob and twirl about in their cheap and cheerful dresses, in the brief camaraderie of moving to music. They are happy! They are laughing! They are young and silly and here to...