Wanderers They Knew Not Where (41).
… and how the little one of all, whose sports had hitherto broken the decorum of the scene, understood the …
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Wanderers They Knew Not Where (40).
Such were the colonists of Merry Mount, as they stood in the broad smile of sunset round their venerated Maypole. …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (39).
There were graves around the church, and now an uneasy thought obtruded into Robin’s breast. What if the object of …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (38).
The only child of Reuben and Dorcas was a son, now arrived at the age of fifteen years, beautiful in …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (37).
“Pretty mistress,” for I may call her so with a good conscience, thought the shrewd youth, since I know nothing …
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 …
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 …
