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Jessica Hagedorn, author of The Blossoming of Bongbong, is a well-regarded Filipino writer, playwright, poet, and multimedia performance artist. She gives life to a rather confused and superficial character named Bongbong in this book, which was...

Published in 1990, Dogeaters earned Jessica Hagedorn an American Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award, losing out to Charles Johnson’s highly acclaimed Middle Passage. With chapter narrative by five different characters...

The collection of stories that make up The Conjure Woman is most often categorized (and rightly so) as a giant leap forward in African-American literature. Such a categorization makes sense if the stories are approached only from the perspective...

The Tales of the Argonauts is a novel written by Bret Harte that was published in 1875. The novel is not a retelling of the adventures of Jason and his Argonauts, but rather it tells the story of the people who moved to California in search of...

Published in 1868, Bret Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp” is generally considered to be one of the first examples of new American literary genre about to explode onto the national scene and help carve out the identity of the still...

"The Black Monk” belongs to that lush category of fiction which is said to have been inspired by the dreams of the author. The nature of remembering dreams being what it is, one should take any assertion on this subject with a grain of salt. This...

Technically, the title of this story by Anton Chekhov usually carries the indefinite article rather than the definite, thus making it a story about “A Malefactor” rather than “The Malefactor.” Since there are only two major characters at play,...

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Russia in 1860. He initially wanted to study Medicine but he later also began a career as an author. He died in 1904 in Germany after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. Agafya focuses on the story of Savka, a...

"Marriage" is a play by Nikolai Gogol was written in 1833-1835 years, and published in 1842.

Gogol began work on the comedy, originally named "Grooms" in 1833. In May 1835 he gave Pogodin excerpts from the play "Provincial bride" (the action took...

Nikolai Gogol was born in Poltava province. He spent his young years there, and later moved to St. Petersburg. But he was interested in the history and customs of his native land during all his life. In the narrative Taras Bulba the history of...

At the beginning of 1843 was published (with a note - 1842), the third volume of the Gogol’s works, which contained placed seven novels, one of which was the story "Carriage", that has been written in 1835. Thus, Gogol himself brought together...

“The Portrait” is a short story by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. This narrative was initially published in 1835 by the author in Part I of his collection Arabesques. After significant revising, it was republished in 1842 in a magazine called The...

"The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" is a short story of Nikolai Gogol. It was Included in the stories collection "Mirgorod".

First it was published in the anthology of Smirdin "The Housewarming" (the 2nd part, 1834)....

Diary of a Madman is a short story written by Nikolai Gogol in 1834. The novel was published for the first time in the collected stories Arabesques with the title Shreds of Notes of a Madman in 1835. Later, it was included in the St. Petersburg...

"Nevsky Prospect" is the story of Nikolai Gogol, written in 1833-1834. "Nevsky Prospect" was first published in the collection "Arabesque" (1835), and was highly praised by critics. Gogol began working on the story during the creation of "Evenings...

Viy is a mystical novel written by Nikolai Gogol, first published in his stories collection "Mirgorod" in 1835. The name of the story is the name of the Slavic demonic male creature with which the plot is associated.

In a footnote to the book,...

Prose series "Tales of Belkin" was written by Pushkin during the famous "Boldin Autumn" in 1830 and then published anonymously. These series consist of a preface ("From the Publisher") and five novels: "The Shot", "The Blizzard", "The Undertaker",...

"A Man Called Horse" is a short story by Dorothy M. Johnson, published in Collier's magazine in 1950. It was later published again in 1968 in her book called Indian Country. The short story revolves around a Boston aristocrat who is captured by a...

"Ship of Fools" is the only novel of the American writer Katherine Anne Porter, published in 1962.

The idea of the novel was born during her voyage from Mexico to Europe in 1931. To the work on a book Porter launched ten years later and had been...

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is an excellent introduction into the literary technique known as “stream of consciousness” for the uninitiated. Stream of consciousness is a device by which the writer provides not just a description of the...

Children of the River was written by Linda Crew, a children and young adult author. This novel was originally published during 1989 and was published again during 1991 by Laurel Leaf. It tells the story of a young girl named Sundara fleeing...

Decoded is a 2010 memoir and autobiography of rapper and business mogul Shawn Carter, although he is best known by his stage name:Jay Z.

In the book, Carter combines personal experiences and his own lyrics with hisideas about the interconnectibity...

What makes King Horn worth studying? A little thing academicians like to term literary history. King Horn has for some time and likely will continue for an indefinite period to enjoy the status of being the earliest extant example of romantic...

Richard Dawkins is an accomplished scientist and a fellow at Oxford. His accomplishments include his activity as a vocal atheist, considered within the New Atheist movement through which he hopes to weaken the effects of religious belief on the...