Sure, we are pretty fond of Sir Francis around here, but nothing beats a sizzling pan full of the other white meat. In honor of every college student's favorite food, eNotes is giving away a year’s supply of bacon. That’s right. A YEAR’S SUPPLY OF BACON from BaconFreak will be delivered to your doorstep, and…
Watch The New Hamlet Film Online
PBS is now streaming their recent adaptation of Hamlet starring David Tennant as Hamlet, Sir Patrick Stewart as Claudius and the Ghost, Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius, Mariah Gale as Ophelia, and Edward Bennet as Laertes. The film was directed by Gregory Doran. Watch Hamlet here. Brush up on the play with our Hamlet Summary.
Just How Many Books Are There? Google’s Massive Project to Count Them ALL
Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, / My piles of books are a mile high. / How I love them! / How I need them! / I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. ~Arnold Lobel Have you ever wondered just how many books are actually out there? Well, thanks…
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Franz Kafka’s Lost Writings Resurface
“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.” ~ Franz Kafka Elderly sisters, Ruth Wisler and Eva Hoffe, might want to take Kafka's warning to heart. For years, the siblings have had a secret. Their mother had been a secretary for Max Brod. Brod had been Kafka's publisher as well as a…
Happy Bloomsday!
Perhaps June 16th snuck up on you. You have been going about your day unaware...but you notice something is definitely...off. It seems that wherever you go, people are bellowing what appears to be stream-of-consciousness ranting, slapping one another on the back, and usually hoisting a Guinness aloft. Well, at least that's what happens to ME…
Summer Reading Recommendations
Ahhh...summer. Time to catch up on some reading, but so many choices. Here are some suggestions to sure please every reading taste: Memoir One More Theory About Happiness by Paul Guest When Paul Guest was twelve years old, he broke his neck in a horrific accident on a bicycle. The author takes the reader from…
Twain Tells All: 100 Years After His Death
"Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow," reads a quote on a monument dedicated to Mark Twain. This year, readers finally get a bridge to that starlit strip of history. Twain, in a handwritten note that accompanied his 5,000 page unedited autobiographical manuscript, requested that his memoirs…
But Does It *SPARKLE*? Baby Names From the Twilight Series Are Tops in 2009
I really like your...name. According to the Social Security Administration, the Top Baby Names for 2009 included two names that are familiar to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide: Isabella and Jacob. Isabella, or "Bella," of course, is the name of the protagonist in Stephenie Meyer's internationally best-selling Twilight series. Jacob…
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