The dystopian sci-fi genre has gained momentum for a considerable time and it mainly tends to address ethical, cultural and scientific dilemmas and dark sides of the modern era? Would there be another optimistic genre to address the same problem with the same effect?

I would like to understand what "manifold" here is supposed to mean because it does not make sense to me in its usual meaning (marked by diversity or variety; many..), esp. when used with "fear": Now I began to dread the city about me with a manifold fear: for apparently the whole business of th...

Working through another C.A. Smith's story, I fail to understand what "even thus" mean. Not even Googling could answer the question because most sources just state the examples with no hints of the meaning. Flowers of many hues had been strewn upon the bier, and their fragrance filled the air wi...

In "In the Midst of Alarms" (1894) by Robert Barr, the author is describing a situation, where a man is going from America to Canada to camp in the forest with his friend, and they were being searched at customs department: “What’s all this tackle?” asked the burly and somewhat red-faced customs...

Is Shem dead tonight? I was alerted to this possibility, non-authoritatively, by Porter Girl, whose name provides further "proof" that Joyce wrote all his significant future readers into Finnegan Wake. I wish to seek a more authoritative answer. I have done some of my own investigation, which I ...

I remember reading this novel about 5-6 years ago, I think maybe as a recent release at the time. A woman is found wandering, dazed, having escaped from her crashed car. She claims she had to leave her daughter behind, and a massive search starts until they get ahold of the woman's husband, who i...

The first paragraph of Watership Down The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog's mercury and oak-tree roots. On the other side...

For example, there's a saying like "Actions speak louder than words". So I'll, for example, substitute the word "Actions" with "Lowering taxes", so it would look like this: "Lowering taxes speaks louder than words". The context would be that the government has promised some time ago than it would...

I am building an eBook reading service (paid) and I aim to distribute free classics available on Gutenberg Project. I have gone through all Gutenberg terms which allows me to do almost anything, but Gutenberg being limited to the US, it doesn't say much beyond that. I just came to know that Guten...