The final pages of Death of a Ghost describe Mrs. Lefcadio looking at a self-portrait of her husband, and much is made of how different it is from the famous Sargent portrait of the man. And then she turns it over: Written across the back in the painter’s enormous hand was a single phrase: ...

When reading Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf Hall, I noticed that the protagonist, Thomas Cromwell, is referred to as often as possible simply as "he"/"him" rather than by his name. This includes in contexts where "he" would more naturally be read as referring to someone else: many times when reading ...

In Tiriel, it's mentioned several times that Tiriel is blind, first in Chapter I, line 27: Look at my eyes, blind as the orbless skull among the stones! And later again in Chapter II, lines 61-65: Soon as the blind wanderer enter’d the pleasant gardens of Har, They ran weeping, like f...

The Three Sisters - the Hecatae, the Fates, the Kindly Ones - are ubiquitous in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman (and in other works). They appear in the first volume to give Morpheus three answers: and then appear in almost every volume, in one aspect or another, until finally they appear as the Kin...

I am doing a study on Hermann Hesse for a class (specially on Demian, but also focused on Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game), and I am searching for critical works, analysis or any type of paper on the author. I am aware that Hesse is considering somewhat "low literature", per say, ...

Does anyone know where this poem originates from: One fine morning in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight, Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot one another. I suspect it is from the Victorian era but would be interested to know if i...