Literary Criticism
Some German Women and Their Salons
German women living at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century have paved the way to modernity for the female gender in Germany. Mary Hargr…
La sala numero 6
La sala número 6 es un pequeño manicomio en el que viven encerradas cinco personas. Está dentro de un hospital decadent…
El Retrato De Dorian Gray
Basil Hallward es un artista que queda enormemente impresionado por la belleza estética de un joven llamado Dorian Gray y comienza a …
Discoveries
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
'To the Lighthouse'
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …
Idle Hours In A Library
“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing am…
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in Engla…
Das Schloss
Das Schloss is a captivating radio adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel, produced in 1953. The story follows K., a land surveyor who arrives at…
The Spirit of Brazilian Literature
One of the many Little Blue Books published to make learning available to all. These were short, informative, and inexpensive books that dis…
Inside the Whale
Inside the Whale is an epic novel that, in the spirit of Beowulf, imagines a bardic drone chanting the mnemonics of rhythm and rhyme to ente…
The Innerglow Effect
Drug companies continue to come out with powerful new medicines. Some produce wondrous responses while others have unforeseen side effects.…
Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo
El invierno se precipitó un domingo a la salida de misa. La noche del sábado había sido sofocante. Pero aún en l…
Ladrón de sábado
Hugo, un ladrón que sólo roba los fines de semana, entra en una casa un sábado por la noche. Ana, la dueña, una …
The Streetwise Cycle
The Streetwise Cycle is a series of nine interconnected stories about people living unexpectedly interconnected lives on the streets of Los …
La siesta del martes
El tren salió del trepidante corredor de rocas bermejas, penetró en las plantaciones de banano, simétricas e intermina…
Life and Writings of Addison
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, wi…
Six lectures on literature
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…
The Sins of the Fathers
This is a story about life. This is a story about light. This is a story of how some men are the product of their lives, and some are the pr…
Laddie's Magical Glowing Balls Of Colored Gas
Laddie is a schizophrenic inmate who lives in the violent, obscene environment of a maximum security prison. Delusions swirl in his mind li…
The Origins of Christianity
The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christi…