My Tussle with the Devil was not seen as a mainstream book, most likely due to its unusual genre and the amount of skeptics that did not believe it was written by the ghost of O. Henry. One advertisement, however, was found in The Bookman Advertiser,…
The spring of 1926 was a very eventful period for Ernest Hemingway– for one reason being that the first edition of In Our Time was published. During this time he was also able to free himself of the obligations of his publishers, Boni and…
This review, which first appeared in an issue of The British Quarterly Review, contains an overview of Charlotte’s life as documented in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë. Additionally, the review offers insightful commentary on the…
In the video, Martin Luther King is making his famous "I have a dream" speech. He addresses the issue of segregation by talking of his dream of the future. A future where people of all races will be able to live together in harmony. Where people will…
Accompanying the text are 21 “decorations,” as the book describes them, done by Albert D. Blashfield. The decorations appear in the front of the book after the title page and before the publishing and copyright information, on the dedication…
After he died, LIFE Magazine published a tribute to the life and work of John Ames Mitchell, certainly evidencing great respect and admiration on the part of the many of the people he worked with during his prolific career. He worked successfully in…
In the book, A Knights Tale, a knight writes to his children the night before battle to explain the important values of life. He addresses his children with the values that all humans must know such as solitude, friendship, forgiveness, cooperation.…