I’m struggling to make sense of his character- beyond his rationality serving to highlight all the disorder. I know of what he provides to the play: belief, a confidant for Hamlet, etc. But I keep thinking about his decision to commit suicide (whether he would or wouldn’t is not really my questio...

In the tale The Tiger King by Kalki see a particular paragraph in the III part of the story which reads: " At another time he was in danger of losing his throne. A high-ranking British officer visited Pratibandapuram. He was very fond of hunting tigers. And fonder of being photographed with the ...

I know it's a long shot, but I'm trying to find a book I read about 25 years ago, checked out from a public library in California. Here is was I can remember of it: Book details: Likely a YA fantasy or mythological fiction, possibly from the late 1990s. Setting/unique elements: Includes a salt se...

Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, "That time of year thou mayst in me behold", spends its first 12 lines comparing different types of the passage of time (such as seasons and days) to human mortality, with all these types of aging and decay "thou mayst in me behold". Then we have the ending rhyming couple...

I read an English textbook many years ago (late 80s, early 90s I think). In that book, I read a short story and can only vaguely remember a very few details. There was a family driving down a road through a deserted area (there was no sign of any other people) when a "tick" sound was heard. Sho...