I am reading Hamlet: Hamlet: O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Guildenstern: Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. What is the meaning of ...

Me and my friend finished Translating Five children and it, and this is one of the paragraphs we had a problem with, she said in Chapter 4 (The Wings): "Well, from this day forth I'll be a better man. It's the kind of thing to sober a chap for life, this is. I'm glad it was only wings, though. I...

I’m trying to figure out where I first came across this “parable of Little Big Horn”. I think (but I’m not 100% sure) that this was a story told by a narrator at the beginning of a novel. The gist of the parable was that Custer had murdered a soldier and engineered the massacre to cover up the de...