The complete online text of England by Charles Dudley Warner.

In the Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern (1902), Charles Dudley Warner is described as "an American man of letters and novelist." Something of his personality and literary judgment may also be revealed in the descriptions o...

MAYBE it's something they put in the island's water, but it is surprising how much is shared by these four widely disparate British novels: the idea of history arrested, of cultural amnesia, of moral and spiritual exile. ''When human memory runs out, there...

This Is England dir. Shane Meadows Writer-director Shane Moadows's This Is England begins with a montage of England, circa 1983-Princess Di's wedding and Margaret Thatcher clash with images of riots, punks, and the Falkland war, all to the sound of Toots and...

Yes, Bill Clinton's unpopularity - Time once used its cover to label him "The Incredible Shrinking President", in case you forgot - was the main catalyst for the Republicans' 52-seat pick-up in the House twelve years ago. But those gains in many cases were decades...

Just consider the six New England states, home to a combined 22 House seats. 17 of them are now occupied by Democrats (counting Vermont's Bernie Sanders). The five remaining Republicans are avowed moderates who, by this time tomorrow, could be politically extinct. Here's a quick...