Yasnaya Polyana Home of Leo Tolstoy
As the Yorkshire surroundings of Emily Bronte’s birthplace influenced Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte Bronte’s hardships at a stern high school fed her with the image…
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Pablo Neruda’s Isla Negra
by Monique Filsnol “A Single Drop Lucid and Heavy.” A French admirer of Pablo Neruda visits his Isla Negra in Chile Finally, I made it…
Edgar Allan Poe: An Afternoon at the Wissahickon
Photo – Michael W. Murphy, used by Creative Commons License via Flickr by Melissa Juliet Sagendorph Even during a bleak, snowy December afternoon, it’s hard…
That Black, Dragon-Haunted Pass: The Mystery of Lermontov’s Caucasus
By Tara Isabella Burton “I was traveling along the military road back from Tiflis.” So begins Mikhail Lermontov’s 1833 A Hero of Our Time, the…
Hemingway’s Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea
by Brian Francis Donohue As the sun rises over the defunct fishing processing plant on the hill overlooking the bay, the backyard roosters settle into…
George Sand: Her Majorcan Winter of Discontent
By Joni Rendon Never before-and possibly never since-has a Mediterranean island inspired as much enmity as did the Spanish isle of Majorca for prolific French…
Beatrix Potter, More Than Just Bunnies: The Legacy of Beatrix Potter
by Deborah Straw Beatrix Potter may be best known as the creator of charming characters like Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Tiggy Winkle and Hunca Munca, but,…
From Turkmenistan to America: How I Found Langston Hughes
by Sam Tranum The boy’s hands shook slightly as he stood in front of the blackboard holding a sheet of white paper. A bead of…
Chilling Out with Charles Dickens
It’s the borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, in southwest London, and it’s still a place for leisure and pleasure today. Walking round places in the …
The Real Story Behind Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
By Paul Millward, “A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” says Fred to Scrooge in the opening pages of A Christmas Carol, beginning the literary…