A Desperate Chance was a 1913 American short silent film drama directed by Kenean Buel. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Hollister in the lead roles. The film featured the same cast and director as the preceding film that year, A Sawmi...

Desperate Remedies is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1871....

The Devil's Disciple is the only full-length play by G. Bernard Shaw set in America. It's a melodrama, though not without humor, particularly in the character of General Burgoyne. The play is important in Shaw's career in that, though it wa...

SOURCE: “Philosophy as Literature: The Case of Hume's Dialogues,” in Compendious Conversations: The Method of Dialogue in the Early Enlightenment, edited by Kevin L. Cope, Peter Lang, 1992, pp. 34-53. In this essay, Wadia attempts to co...

The Dialogus de oratoribus is a short book by Tacitus, in dialogue form, on the art of rhetoric. Its date of composition is unknown, though its dedication to Fabius Iustus places its publication around 102. The dialogue itself, set in the y...