I read The Sorrows of Young Werther for my literature class (our translation was from Corngold and its title substituted "Sorrows" for "Sufferings", but it's the same story). For a quiz I answered that Charlotte didn't have a difficult time choosing between Albert and Werther. From my reading the...

I would like to find a poem or a book where death is described in very unflattering terms, possibly with lots of blood involved. Possibly coupled (but not necessarily) to a form of statement that the death is an event like other events and that the death of a single man has never changed anything.

If you read around literary theory, you'll frequently come across the concept of autonomy in art, the idea that an artwork is a thing unto itself, independent from the artist. As far as I understand it, it appears to be founded in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and a number of book interpretatio...

I remember being gifted as a child some kind of hardcover book that had a purple colored soft-touch cover; I think it was some kind of fabric. There was also a purple ribbon as bookmark. I think it was a collection of short stories, children's stories, or folk stories. The look of the book was ce...