This week we bring you “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano” by Herman MelvilleHerman Melville belongs to…
Henry worked a number of different jobs, from pharmacy to drafting, journalism, and banking. Banking, in particular, was not to…
Hawthorne was a Transcendentalists believing in the “inherent goodness of both people and nature.” You could think of him as…
” The Big Trip Up Yonder” and “2 B R 0 2 B”. Michael Crichton, writing in The New Republic,…
(Tid bit: “God Sees The Truth, But Waits” is the story that inspired Stephen King to write Shawshank Redemption!) Tolstoy…
Maupassant was a 19th century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form. He was a representative…
“The Garden Party” and “Mr. and Mrs. Dove”. Mansfield once said “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion…
A crime story writer during the Sherlock Holmes era, Barr wrote the first Holmes parody, “The Adventures of “Sherlaw Kombs”,…
Dick was an under-rated master of Science Fiction, in which he gravitated to writing dystopian stories. His cautionary tales, often…
Chekhov studied to be a Dr. He once said “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I…