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From time to time frequent TGR contributor Charles Saunders jumps in his wayback machine and brings back some gems from the heyday of the Howard Boom. One of these gems is his classic article “A Mouthful of Feathers” that appeared in The Chronicler of Cross Plains #1 in 1978. The article compares the similarities and differences…

Discuss the importance of setting in the novel you have studied “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”, by Thomas Hardy, is set in the years of 1880 to 1890, in Wessex, which is in the southwest of England. Settings in the novel, such as Talbothays, Flintcombe-Ash, Sandbourne and Stonehenge are important because they help us to understand…

Finch as a teacher and father from chapters 9-1 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird. In Chapter 2, Miss Caroline Fisher tells Scout, “Your father does not know how to teach Through much of these three chapters, however, he shows himself to be an excellent father who takes his responsibility to raise his children very…

Arthur Miller, the son of a wealthy father who lost all of his money in the crash of 1929, abandoned his schooling as a young child to support his family through various odd jobs. These jobs provided Miller with insight into the life of an average American, which he later incorporated as a central theme…

When I decided in early 1976 I wanted to start a Robert E. Howard fanzine, there was already a bunch of them being published, including Amra, Cross Plains, Fantasy Crossroads, The Howard Review and REH: Lone Star Fictioneer. Entering such a crowded field was not exactly a logical thing to do, but I was never much…

The Kuykendalls of Ranger took care of a lonely Doc Howard in his declining years, treating him like a member of their family. He repaid them by leaving them the rights to Robert’s writings. On this, the fifty-second anniversary of the passing of Dr. Kuykendall, I thought it would be appropriate to remember all three of…

Anton Chekhov and Joyce Oates both approached this short narrative from the third-person storyteller. The chief difference is how Chekhov entertained the male position of love while Oates indulged in the weakening facet of the feminine side. Chekhov used a limited omniscient storyteller who merely knows Gurov’s inner ideas and feelings. He reveals the point…

Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby Dictionary. Com states that the definition of The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American. The idea is that every American can reach this “American Dream” with hard work. After World War 1, the stock…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus as Mary Shelley subtitled it, was first published in 1818. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a student in anatomy and physiology. He becomes set on finding the source of life, both for the personal acclaim it will bring him but also, he claims, to better the human race….

Macbeth is a story with very universal themes, even to this day it presents themes that we can see and recognize in our everyday lives. In this essay, we will analyze the modern values / universal themes in the character Macbeth and how literature reflects society, culture, place, and / or history. Macbeth is a…