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Ever since writing has been known to man, literature as become an extremely important part of everyday life, even for those who aren’t writers. Literature allows people to express their thoughts and feelings, and then have others read them, take it in, and draw their own conclusions and thoughts.
As a writer myself, it’s definitely hard [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under All, Literature · Tagged albert camus, answered prayers, authors, Books, Canterbury Tales, Charles Dickens, death, Geoffrey Chaucer, history of the Peloponnesian War, Jane Austen, Kubla Khan, Literature, Mark Twain, Samuel Coleridge, sanditon, The Aeneid, The first man, The Mysterious Stranger, The mystery of Edwin Drood, Thucydides, Top 10 Unfinished Works of Literature, truman, truman capote, Virgil
You read and hear about so many “untimely” deaths in our world today, but what about the rare and poetic “timely” deaths that occur? Here is a list that shows the Grim Reaper can be very timely indeed.
10. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Playwright
Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet. He was often referred to as the [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 12:05 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, People · Tagged arnold schonberg, charles davies, charles schulz, death, domitian, elizabeth ryan, george story, John Adams, leonard warren, life magazine, Mark Twain, president, Thomas Jefferson, untimely deaths
Throughout the history of the world, starting with the church, censors have been put on many different things. The church was able to create a list of banned books, and many of the books were burned. The first list of banned books came from Pope Paul IV who established The Index of Prohibited Books to [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 12:02 am
Filed under All, Literature, Politics, Religion, Sex, Shopping · Tagged 1984, authors, banned, banned books, Books, Brave New World, Candide, catcher in the rye, Controversial, controversy, funny, George Orwell, Harry Potter, homosexual, Huckleberry Finn, humber humbert, Humor, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, innocence, Literature, Lolita, magazines, Mark Twain, nabokov, salinger, Sex, The color Purple, To Kill a Mockingbird, violence, Voltaire