“I want to tell you that I have got my own darling child from London.” These are the words Jane Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra 200 years ago, on January 29th, 1813. And the “darling child” she spoke of? …
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Top Ten Famous Last Words and Final Stops: Writers and Their Gravesites
Everyone has a different way of coping with what George Bernard Shaw called “that troublesome business.” The promise of death should motivate us to live everyday to the fullest because as Jim Morrison aptly noted, “No one here gets out alive.” So …
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If This Grumpy Cat Could Talk…
Literature’s grumpiest quotes meet Tardar Sauce, the world’s grumpiest cat. —Noël Coward —Edgar Allen Poe —Jane Austen —A. N. Wilson —Friederich Nietzche –George Orwell, 1984 What other grumpy quotes could we make Tardar Sauce say? Let’s get catankerous, people.
The Greatest Books of All Time
Is it possible to rank the world’s best literature? Well, no, and we’re certainly not going to try. Although in 2007, one publication did. Now we ask, did it get it right? The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books is …