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Robert E. Howard was an avid reader of Weird Tales, the famous fantasy pulp magazine that was launched in the spring of 1923. He may have seen the first issue of the magazine while studying in Brownwood. The issues of Weird Tales usually appeared a month earlier than their cover date would suggest. Howard’s first known mention…

Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose (1922, The Auburn Journal) was Clark Ashton Smith’s third volume of poetry, following The Star-Treader and Other Poems (1912, Robertson) and Odes and Sonnets (1918, The Book Club of California). Smith had conceived the volume as early as 1916, and by late 1920 had a manuscript which…

In his short story collection, The Dubliners, James Joyce is giving us so many examples of people, characters and even lives. This collection was written at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but we could read it with the same sense that we read the modern ones. The feelings are similar even situations. Two of…

When contemplating the feelings that arise when a loved one is gone, I personally felt devastated by the loss of my dearest companion. However, I did not yearn for solitude during that period. Instead, the presence of my family and friends provided solace. Engaging in conversations with them and reminiscing about my departed friend brought…

The title of this book is Treasure Island. It is written by Robert LewisStevenson and takes place mainly on Treasure Island. There were many charactersin this story but the most substantial were; Jim Hawkins the cabin boy/narrator;Long John Silver the captain; David Livesey the ships doctor; Pew theblind-beggar; and John Trelawney the owner of the…

In the novels the house on The House on the Lagoon and Mambo Kings, real historical facts and figures are used to give the stories a sense of realism. The authors of these novels use small pieces of history to make a realistic setting for their stories. The authors also use fictional historical events and…

Many times in life, people set unrealistic expectations for themselves or for other people. This is not a very wise thing to do because people often feel disappointed and embarrassed for getting their hopes up so high. One good example of this is the narrator in the short story “Araby” by James Joyce. In his…

In William Somerset Maugham’s short story ‘The Lotus Eater’, the character of Thomas Wilson is depicted through his encounter with the narrator. Wilson, an English bank manager who had retired, had chosen to live on the Italian island Capri and was subject to various speculations. However, disregarding these rumors, the author personally met him in…

The two short stories, The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck and Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway are similar in many ways, and are also different in several ways. Though the settings and plots vary, both are sufficient in capturing the importance of women. To begin, both stories take place in the early twentieth century,…

Week 4 Compare/Contrast “2001: A Space Odyssey & “The Sentinel” Science Fiction In the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, it deals with a series of encounters between humans and a mysterious black monoliths that is apparently effecting human evolution. In the short story “The Sentinel”, the story basically reverses the roll of the black monoliths….