It was a Chinese writer or philosopher, probably pre-1900. Basically, a man captures a deer and a wolf and keeps them in his garden/compound. He trains the wolf not to attack the deer. The deer unlearns its fear of wolves, then escapes the compound and is eaten by wild wolves.

It can be brother and sister who make love, or brothers and sisters, then, the sister(s) has/have a baby and then they fight each other about the right to abortion (pro-life versus pro-choice). The closest I thought of is the Kerry Kilcannon series by Richad North Patterson, but that is a politic...

Dickens's novel Bleak House shares its name with an actual house in the English seaside town of Broadstairs. Dickens actually stayed in that house for a while, and wrote David Copperfield there, but at that time it was called Fort House not Bleak House. The Wikipedia page for the house says, some...

I'm reading "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle. I came across this sentence by the character Violet Hunter: Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colorless in mind as well as in feature. She impressed me neither favorably nor the reverse. What does this sentence mean? Is she...