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Project Pride of Cross Plains, Texas, the community organization directly responsible for the restoration and maintenance of the Robert E. Howard Museum, has announced the publication of A Word from the Outer Dark. This nifty little paperback tome is a generous collection of 100 poems by Robert E. Howard, and pretty well covers the broad scope of…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been praised for its accurate depiction of madness and symptoms associated with mental breakdowns (Shumaker 1985). While these symptoms may seem evident from a contemporary psychological perspective, Gilman wrote this story in the late 19th century when psychology was still evolving from a basic psychiatric approach to treating…

Pride can be defined positively and negatively. it can intend a sense of one’s ain proper self-respect or value or self-respect. or an overly high sentiment of oneself or amour propre. severally. In the drama which portrays both sides of pride we are transported to the late 16 100s and introduced to the town of…

It would seem the never ending hunt is indeed never ending.  Despite the recentflurry of Howard publishing, a number of Howard characters are either out-of-printor impossible to find in one or two books.  Some of these include Francis X. Gordon, Kirby O’Donnell, Steve Harrison, Dark Agnes and Wild Bill Clanton. For example, the Steve Harrison…

“The Glass Menagerie” takes place in the Wingfield family’s apartment, which is described as a cramped and dingy space, comparable to a jail cell. Among the various apartments in the neighborhood, this is just one of them. All members of the Wingfield family have no desire to reside in this particular apartment. Their poverty is…

One common reading of Lord of the Flies is that it focuses on the dislocation of civilisation and the implicit in savageness in each single homo being, ever finally returning back to an evil nature with a focal point on the endurance of the person. Without regulations and norms to steer people, communities will fall…

“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne makes Hester the most “free” character by showcasing her transformation from ostracizes sinner to an able woman of her letter in order to display the idea that repressed sin destroys the soul while openness and honesty sets a soul free. Hester was not burdened with the internal guilt…

Attention Grabber: Edgar Allan Poe is an American author best known for his tales of mystery Connection: He has written numerous short stories and of those many are about horror. Sentence that flows: In the “Pit and the Pendulum” Poe demonstrates his skills of creating mood and suspense. Thesis: Edgar Allan Poe’s expertise in creating…

Cervo, Nathan A. “Yeats’ ‘Among School Children.” Explicator Fall (2001): p 30-31. This piece discusses arguably one of the more interesting works of Yeats entitled “among School Children”.  The discussion revolves around how W.B Yeats deconstructs the value of the things that are taught by kindly nuns to the children under their supposed care.  It…

Secrets, lies, jealousy, and rumors are a lethal combination which not only destroy lives but also cause multiple murders. Jay Gatsby, the character in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, and Iago from Shakespeare’s play Othello are consumed with chasing a dream and are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. Gatsby met…