Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre unearthed in London
The Museum of London said Wednesday that an archaeological dig had uncovered part of the gravel yard and gallery walls of the 435-year-old Curtain Theatre …
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The Museum of London said Wednesday that an archaeological dig had uncovered part of the gravel yard and gallery walls of the 435-year-old Curtain Theatre …
The Kindle Fire is burning up the tablet competition — on the Android side. Amazon.com Inc.’s tablet computer is catching fire on in a big …
She was the daughter of a Congregational preacher, the sister of five preachers, and the husband of another. She was raised in a family that …
[caption id="attachment_1175" align="alignleft" width="100" caption=" "][/caption]Novelist Harry Crews has died from complications from neuropathy. Crews, who died at his home in Gainesville, Florida, was 76. “He had been very ill,” his ex-wife, Sally Crews, tells the Associated Press in this report. “In a way it was kind of a blessing. He was in a lot of pain.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a rich and darkly morbid story that showcases Hawthorneâs art at its most sensuous and florid. It is the story …
At the time of his trial and execution in 399 BC, Socrates had reached the age of seventy. He had lived through the Periclean Age …
“Realism” is an element of some of Abrose Bierce’s short stories (particularly those concerning the Civil War), but the term is of little value when …
From among his few short stories, William Austin’s fame rests primarily with one, “Peter Rugg, or the Missing Man,” which became immensely popular and a …