In Norton Juster's witty wacky fantasy The Phantom Tollbooth, during their stay in the Dictionopolis dungeon Milo and Tock meet a witch Which. She used to be in charge of selecting which words to use, hence her title of Which, until she became too miserly with words and got banished to the dungeo...

There is a book I remember from the 1980s (but I had older siblings, so it may have been a decade earlier) that followed the structure of "the house that jack built" but was about 2 brothers that may have been trolls. I think one brother stole berries or maybe a pie from the other, so he was tryi...

I came across a madrigal by William Drummond of Hawthornden (laird of the same) yesterday. It's an astonishingly beautiful poem, but I'm having trouble making sense of some of the phrases and allusions. First Uncertainty In Cyprus' gardens gathering those fair flowers Which of her blood were bo...

In India, relations between the British and the Congress party, ,congress issued a call, which wanted independence for the country had deteriorated badly. Churchill hated the idea of offering dominion status to INDIA.on 8 august 1942, prompted by Gandhi, the congress issued a call to the British ...

When talking about the coming of age genre a friend of mine mentioned Harry Potter as an example. I found myself incapable of sharing this idea since not only I do not think that the core of the plot of HP is about his growth but I think HP does not portrait any kind of notable growth of the prot...