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Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca, Spain, to Canadian parents. There, while sipping coffee in a café in the town of Pondic...

1) Be prepared to discuss "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger 2) Choose one poem from the poems we studied in clas...

When it came to the war and the losses of life, about 7,200 Americans were killed in battle during the Revolutionary War. Approximately 8,20...

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will ...

Compensation Why should I keep holiday, When other men have none? Why but because when these are gay, I sit and mourn alone. And why...

Yann Martel wrote a big best seller about a boy and a tiger in a lifeboat: Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain (1963). His father was ...

A few famous quotations from Henry James (1843-1916) *The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million... but they are, singl...

These are the days when Birds come back— A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resume The o...

The Snow Man One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold...

Novelist Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi (1944). He's best known as the author of the novels The Sportswriter (1985) an...

Jerome David Salinger, the novelist J.D. Salinger was born in New York City in 1919. He wanted to be a writer, and his dream was to publish...

Spring and All By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast—a cold wind...

SPRING O what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves ...

The novelist William Styron, was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925. He served in the Marines, and then he worked at a publishing ho...

Roman poet Horace was born on this day in Venusia, in southern Italy (65 B.C.E.). His father was a former slave, but by the time Horace came...

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind w...

To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand eigh...

It's the birthday of novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux, born in Medford, Massachusetts (1941). When he was growing up, his father...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have li...