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Ulysses by James Joyce – Episode 1
Ulysses, the novel by James Joyce, chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer’s Odyssey (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). Joyce fans [...]
Continue reading...Winesburg, Ohio – Introduction and Chapter 1
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio in 1876. His childhood and youth were spent in in Clyde, Ohio, population about 3,000, were scarred by bouts of poverty, but he also knew some of the pleasures of pre-industrial American society. The country was then experiencing what he would later call "a sudden and almost universal turning of men from the old handicrafts towards our modern
Continue reading...Winesburg, Ohio – Chapter 17: QUEER
Monday, February 9, 2009
QUEER, concerning Elmer Cowley In the store Elmer Cowley and his father stared at each other. Now that the immediate object of his wrath had fled, the younger man was embarrassed. “Well, I meant it. I think we’ve been queer long enough,” he declared, going to the showcase and replacing the revolver. Sitting on [...]
Continue reading...Robinson Crusoe – Chapter 5
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
“…the next day I went out with my dog, and set him upon the goats, but I was mistaken, for they all faced about upon the dog, and he knew his danger too well, for he would not come near them.” This chapter is brought to you by Audible.com. Click here to download a FREE audiobook [...]
Continue reading...Robinson Crusoe – Chapter 9
Friday, May 23, 2008
“…I spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella; I was, indeed, in great want of one…” This chapter is brought to you by Audible.com. Click here to download a FREE audiobook of your choice.
Continue reading...Robinson Crusoe – Chapter 20
Saturday, May 10, 2008
The fight between Friday and a bear. ~END~ This chapter is brought to you by Audible.com. Click here to download a FREE audiobook now. Subscribe to Great Books – A Chapter a Day by Email
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