I was reading a short-story titled "A Face in the Dark" by Ruskin Bond. There's this passage in it: "It had no eyes, ears, nose or mouth. It was just a round smooth head — with a school cap on top of it! And that's where the story should end. But for Mr. Oliver, it did not end there." The s...

Most of the major cuneiform tablet discoveries date from the 1840s and later. Cuneiform was used to write several languages, including Sumerian (a language isolate according to the current state of knowledge) and Akkadian (a Semitic language). There are now a number of anthologies of literature i...

In book 2 of Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora’s cousin Romney doubts there is any value in women writing poetry:                                               ‘Who has time, An hour’s time … think! … to sit upon a bank And hear the cymbal tinkle in white hands? When Eg...