I'm trying to find a fantasy book from my childhood. I distinctly remember a quote from it, "...a ring, a stone, a finger bone...", describing three talismanic objects. There was mention of spells being "the crucible that held the will of the spellcaster". I think there was also an element of tim...

To me, it seems that the play is expressly about a married couple who attempt to psychologically destroy each other. I understand that the title is a play on the phrase, "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" but how does Virginia Woolf replace the big bad wolf in this play? Moreover, how does Virgi...

In my latter High School days, as part of an oral communications course, I was required to memorize and deliver a poem before the class. I found one in the school library and met the requirement with decent marks. For some reason I cannot recall enough about this poem to find it again. I've had l...

tried to identify one main idea and the main problem of the novel, but in the end nothing came out. I would like to know what you think.

In this excerpt from Heart of darkness, by Joseph Conrad, that you can download from Project Gutenberg website, Marlow, the sailor protagonist of the story, is describing his feelings as going up the river (emphasis mine): Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of...