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U. of Oregon. Pearl Buck, who won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, was one of the best known and most widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. She was also an adoptive parent, a prominent early critic of racial and religious matching, a thorn in the side of the child welfare establishment, and an advocate of special needs, transracial, and international adoptions.
2/8/58 Pearl Buck, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novelist, talks to Wallace about American women, marriage, career versus family, and the difference between men and women.
Full text, synopsis, and analysis of Chekhov short stories: “The Death of a Clerk”, “The Huntsman”, “The Student”, “The Man in a Case”, and “Gooseberries”
As an SU student, Stephen Crane was more focused on baseball than studying, but his time in Syracuse may have been more influential to the writing of The Red Badge of Courage than previously thought
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Great resource. Also, under his photo see Texts About This Post. For example, click Poets' Odd Jobs and scroll down to see what "odd" job Robert Frost did,
Good locked article in Wikipedia! (that means no one can edit it except for a few experts on Frost) Use Table of Contents, Sources, and External Links.
Middlebury College. "No one is more closely identified with Bread Loaf than Robert Frost, who first came to the School of English in 1921, encouraged the founding of the Writers' Conference in 1926, and returned to the Bread Loaf campus nearly every year for forty-two years. His legacy is represented by these materials from Special Collections at Middlebury College." Lectures, readings, photographs, letters, more
A perspective on how and why savagery and disorder take over the boys, and the message William Golding delivered through his tale. Brian Ausland. Smithsonian
Bryant Mangum, "Ernest Hemingway," in Critical Survey of Short Fiction," ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1982. pp. 1621-28. Reproduced from Critical Survey of Short Fiction. Copyright, 1981, by Salem Press, Inc. By permission of the publisher, Salem Press, Inc.
Yale University: Dystopian Literature. 1984 along with H. G. Wells War of the Worlds; E. M. Forster “The Machine Stops”; Aldous Huxley Brave New World; B. F. Skinner Walden Two; George Orwell 1984; Arthur C. Clarke Childhood End; Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
5/18/1958. Aldous Huxley, social critic and author of Brave New World, talks to Wallace about threats to freedom in the United States, overpopulation, bureaucracy, propaganda, drugs, advertising, and television. U of Texas, Austin.
"TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man who is the sole financial supporter of his family until he awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becoming a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves." IMDb.
The Atlantic Review original review, 1960."A variety of adults, mostly eccentric in Scout's judgment, and a continual bubble of incident make To Kill A Mockingbird pleasant, undemanding reading."!!!
Learn the history of one California camp where migrant workers came during the the Great Depression. Includes families' stories and authentic photographs.
eThemes. U of Missouri
Choose Flash or HTML version of this site and search Mexican history and important events, view the timeline of the revolution, click on icons to enlarge photographs. Includes historical photographs, maps, and glossary of terms. NOTE: The reading level is for older students.
eThemes Literature. Find information about the immigration of Punjabi-Mexican families to California based on the "Roots in the Sand" documentary. Learn about difficult conditions and the life of California migrant workers. Includes stories of several families, photographs, and maps. Click on the "Out Takes" link to view video files.
"You need to lay claim to Shakespeare – grab him now. Do not let those posers who think he is too difficult, too special, too bawdy, violent, funny or anything else, deny you your heritage. It’s a rotten conspiracy and it has gone on too long." by Marcia Williams.
The bird's-eye view of London (also known as the "Agas" map) was first printed on woodblocks in 1561. The intricate "Agas" map shows details such as monuments, institutions, businesses, marketplaces, and urban planning fixtures.
Janelle Jenstad's interactive version pulls information from databases with names of locations, people, organizations in the city at the time, as well as reference material about the early modern period in London.
An online exhibition of nearly 1,000 postcards featuring many famous English and American actors who performed Shakespeare’s plays for late Victorian and Edwardian audiences. The postcards date from around 1880 to 1914. From EMORY University.
British Museum Director Neil MacGregor presents Shakespeare's Restless World. The 20-part series looks at the world through the eyes of Shakespeare's audience by exploring objects from that turbulent period.
"Shakespeare Documented is the largest and most authoritative collection of primary-source materials documenting the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), bringing together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter. "
Harvard. "Shakespeareʹs primary source was a story in Giraldi Cinthioʹs Hecatommithi,
published in 1565. The following is an 1855 translation by J. E. Taylor."
This podcast episode, which deals with race, Othello, and how the Elizabethans portrayed blackness onstage, offers a startling, new interpretation of Desdemona’s handkerchief that is changing the way scholars understand the play.
