I just finished leading a series of eight classes on Mark Twain’s books, The Prince and the Pauper, and Tom Sawyer at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield, Virginia. In discussing
Month: August 2016
My Favorite Characters in Literature
I’m not saying this is a conclusive list of the most notable characters in Literature. These are, however, the ones that stand out the most in my mind. Of
Poe’s “Oval Portrait” and The Picture of Dorian Gray
After reading Oscar Wilde’s, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), I was struck by how much his theme about the value of art resembled the one found in Poe’s
Remembering the Positively Poe Conference at the University of Virginia
I first published this article on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum Website (www.poemuseum.org) on 7/28/2016. It is being republished here on Litchatte.com with the permission of the Museum In 1818,
Shakespeare’s, A Merchant of Venice at England’s Agecroft Hall in Virginia
Agecroft Hall, one of the world’s oldest examples of original Tudor architecture, was once part of a larger estate that was established in Lancashire, England in about 1292. This was around