Wanderers They Knew Not Where (36).
The irritability, by which he had recently become distinguished, was another cause of his declining prosperity, as it occasioned frequent …
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Wanderers They Knew Not Where (35).
All acknowledged that he might worthily demand the hand of the fair maiden, to whose father he had been “faithful …
Book Review: If You Could See Me Now.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is no doubt that Miles Teagarden has been distilled from the psychic juices of his …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (34).
Reuben’s recollection strayed drowsily among the perils and hardships through which he had passed, and he was incapable of returning …
Book Review: Gone Girl.
[The following contains spoilers.] How should we go about reviewing Gillian Flynn’s latest “literary thriller” Gone Girl? Greta is one …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (33).
Herds of deer, it is true, sometimes bounded past him, and partridges frequently whirred up before his footsteps; but his …
Two Studies of Robin Molineux.
[Nathaniel Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1831) can be read here. See Tychy passim for further illustrations of Robin's story. …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (32).
Had nature, in that deep hour, become a worshipper in the house, which man had builded? Or was that heavenly …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (31).
Then he strove to speed away the time, by listening to a murmur which swept continually along the street, yet …
A Critical Assessment of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Perhaps literary connoisseurs such as we should remain wary of Mario Puzo‘s The Godfather. It is admittedly an expertly plotted …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (30).
Robin gazed with dismay, and astonishment, on the unprecedented physiognomy of the speaker. The forehead with its double prominence, the …
Book Review: Jack London’s The Iron Heel.
In Jack London‘s “dystopian” novel, The Iron Heel (1908), revolutionary communism is put to the test and it fails resoundingly. …
A Political Reading of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Vito Corleone appears to be the founding father of an alternative model of America, in which the power of money, …
The Road to Hill House (3/3): All the House’s a Stage.
[Previously on Tychy: (1/3) "The Anguish of Influences" and (2/3) "The House of Mirth." Ed.] The reader of Shirley Jackson‘s …
The Road to Hill House (2/3): The House of Mirth.
[Previously on Tychy - "The Road to Hill House (1/3): The Anguish of Influences."] Eleanor Vance’s drive to Hill House, …
