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The Hound Of The Baskervilles, et al, Remembered -
Joel Hendon (16,285)     
Joel Hendon   
Memories have a tendency to be pleasant to the average mind. Our minds tend to forget the unpleasant parts of our lives and the parts which were sweetest are often indelibly etched in our memory.
Reading of the old classics tend to give me nostalgia more than anything else, I believe. Sir... ( added 317 days 23 hours ago.) |
I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag -
 - David Tanguay (9,577)  
David Tanguay
The Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag is an oath of loyalty to the country. It is recited at many public events. Congress sessions open with the recitation of the Pledge.
The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag reads as follows:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United... ( added 1 year 52 days ago.) |
Origins of the Segregation of Literary Fiction from Popular Fiction -
- Jennifer Cuddy (989)  
Jennifer Cuddy
Why is literary fiction notorious for being statistically 'low sellers' in the world of book publishing? This question, is often indirectly asked by many literary writers who are frustrated by what they believe to be a book publishing industry who cater only to mass markets by following... ( added 1 year 153 days ago.) |
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Goethe: A German Writer of the First Rank -
Satis Shroff (755)  
Satis Shroff
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who was lifted to nobility as J. W.von Goethe in 1782, was born on August 28, 1749 in the town of Frankfurt. The Goethes lived in a large, comfortable house in the Hirschgasse, now called Goethe Haus. Besides practical, scientific and autobiographical writings, he left... ( added 1 year 186 days ago.) |
Homer, Western Civilizations Definition of Culture, Masculinity, and the Silence of Sappho -
- Jennifer Cuddy (989)
Jennifer Cuddy
In our now ethnically diverse culture of political correctness, can we justify the traditional canon as representative of a universal definition of culture? In times past, the study of epic Greek poems such as Homer's 'The Iliad' have resulted from hegomonic conventions, which have since then... ( added 1 year 217 days ago.) |
The European Renaissance & the English Literature -
Shahzada Sultan (150)
All the histories of Europe , cultural, religious, political, and literary—record the reverberations of a strongly repercussive intellectual upheaval that rocked the European world and caused a veritable rebirth of arts and literature. This convulsion has been given the name of Renaissance... ( added 3 years 33 days ago.) |
Review: Double Daggers Authored by James R. Clifford -
ngoldman (5,743) 
ngoldman
Author: James R. Clifford
ISBN: 0897542177
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW ( added 3 years 92 days ago.) |
Analysis of "Under the Lions Paw" -
Ben Ganter (3,369) 
Ben Ganter
Deterministic Propaganda
Naturalist writers often promote a negative view of society focusing on the hardships the poor and uneducated face in everyday life. This deterministic view, used by many of the naturalist authors, disseminates a pessimistic outlook on human existence and is prevalent... ( added 3 years 126 days ago.) |
Review: The Last Paradise -
ngoldman (5,743)
ngoldman
Author: Michael Kasenow ISBN: 978-1-4401-2001-5
The Last Paradise was at times not easy to stay with as it dwells so profoundly upon appalling racist behavior, sadness and anger, all taking a heavy emotional toll, nevertheless it still was a great read. In addition, Kasenows cast of rich and... ( added 247 days 8 hours ago.) |
Elitism in the Literary Intelligentsia -
Jennifer Cuddy (989)
Jennifer Cuddy
Why is literary fiction inevitably a poor seller? This question is at the core of John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses, Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 . John Carey asserts that the English literary intelligentsia of this era made a conscious effort to... ( added 1 year 140 days ago.) |
A Thousand Years of Zähringen -
- Satis Shroff (755)
Satis Shroff
The ruins of Zähringen's castle lies o n a hillock overlooking the Vale of Dreisam. And the hamlet of Zähringen is a part of Freiburg. Zähringen is 1000 years old, reason enough to celebrate a festival with the inauguration of the Zähringer fountain, which is a tall monolith with a scarlet heart... ( added 1 year 141 days ago.) |
On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles -
Satis Shroff (755)
Satis Shroff
Dr. Johann Faust, the man who sold his soul to the Devil. A mythical figure? Certainly not. I went to the pretty town of Staufen via Bad Krözingen from Freiburg. From the distance you can see the ruins of a castle looming above the vineyards on a hill. In the town below is a Gasthaus called Zum... ( added 2 years 22 days ago.) |
A Conversation With JV Love Author of The End of Sorrow: A Novel of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII. -
ngoldman (5,743)
ngoldman
Author: JV Love
ISBN: 10: 1595941657:
ISBN: 13:9781595941657
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, JV Love author of The End of Sorrow: A Novel of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII. ( added 2 years 92 days ago.) |
Chivalry - The Roots of the Code of the Medieval Knight -
- Will Kalif (10,985) 
Will Kalif
Chivalry has come to be very watered down in modern day times. For the most part we think of chivalry as the way a man behaves toward, and around, women. And while this does characterize chivalry it is actually a very small component of what chivalry was.
Chivalry was an all encompassing guide... ( added 2 years 140 days ago.) |
Review: How New York Became American, 1890-1924 -
ngoldman (5,743)
ngoldman
Author: Angela M. Blake
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0-8018-8293-1
How New York Became American, 1890-1924 was originally Angela M. Blake’s doctoral dissertation, which is very much in evidence when you consider that there are sixty-five pages... ( added 2 years 266 days ago.) |
A look at the Dark Ages: When Things Were Really Medieval -
- Will Kalif (10,985)
Will Kalif
The Dark Ages were a period of great upheaval, constant war, horrendous plague, and stagnant cultural growth. But through these difficult centuries new ideas and a new culture was born. And in today’s world we still feel the effects of these changes that were brought about during these Dark Ages.... ( added 2 years 270 days ago.) |
Review: No Time To Mourn: The True Story of a Jewish Partisan Fighter -
ngoldman (5,743)
ngoldman
Author: Leon Kahn as told to Marjorie Morris
ISBN: 1553800117
There have been thousands of books written about the Holocaust but few describe the plight of the Jewish partisans who escaped to the forests bravely defending themselves against their Nazi hunters. Unfortunately, the... ( added 2 years 275 days ago.) |
Review: Woodward And Bernstein: Life In The Shadow Of Watergate -
ngoldman (5,743)
ngoldman
Author: Alicia Shepard
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc
ISBN: 0471737615
That Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have contributed dramatically to changing the face of journalism is by now a matter of historical record.
However, very few of us were aware of their... ( added 3 years ago.) |
How Many Wars in One Lifetime -
ghada Jaber (14)
How many wars in one lifetime? How many can a person tolerate?
A diary of a million refugees: group migration under a sky of planes and clouds
By Rabih Jaber 06/07/25
Translation to English by Ghada Jaber
( added 3 years 106 days ago.) |
Boudicca - Warrior Queen of the Iceni -
Joe Knight (316) 
Boudicca - Warrior Queen of the Iceni
about 1100 words
In 60 A.D., Britain (known as Britannia), like much of the known world, was under the control of the Romans. Caesar had invaded Britannia twice, once in 55 B.C., and again in 54 B.C., and it was during the second invasion... ( added 3 years 110 days ago.) |
Analysis of "Greasy Lake" -
Ben Ganter (3,369)
Ben Ganter
Moment of Enlightenment In every young man’s life a point
exists where he moves from the fantasy of invincibility to the
realization of mortality. For some, it is a gradual move with no
defined moment of enlightenment, but rather a series of progressive
steps. For others, there is an... ( added 3 years 126 days ago.) |
Historical Fact: the Berserkers -
Carolyn Tytler (5,906)
One of the more peculiar elements in ancient Norse sagas were tales involving a specialized group of Viking warriors known as the berserkers or berserks.
Unlike the regular fighters, these attackers wore no armour, but plunged into battle dressed in the skins of wolves or bears, taking... ( added 89 days 1 hour ago.) |
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The Forgotten Victims… Children of the Holocaust -
Victoria Benson (27)
It is written that only 10% of the Jewish children in Europe
survived the Holocaust.
Latvia and Lithuania,
two small Baltic countries,
suffered even higher casualties. Only 1 - 2 % of their Jewish children
survived, and nearly all of them were sent away and in hiding.
One little boy... ( added 2 years 50 days ago.) |
The Life of Jonathan Swift, the writer of Gulliver Travels -
- Russell Shortt (997) 
Russell Shortt
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, on 30 November 1667, unfortunately his father died before he was born. The facts about Swift's early life are quite hazy, it is believed that his mother moved to England, leaving Jonathan in the care of his father's brother Godwin. Swift studied at Kilkenny... ( added 1 year 4 days ago.) |
The Man who wrote the Indian and Bangladeshi National Anthems -
- Russell Shortt (997)
Russell Shortt
The Man who wrote the Indian and Bangladeshi National Anthems The man is Rabindranath Tagore, the man who linked West and East. But like so many that went before him, and indeed many that came after him, he may very well have being completely overlooked by the Western world. He was born in... ( added 109 days 8 hours ago.) |
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