The endings of books are commonly viewed as a means of providing closure to the conflict previously aroused in the text. However, an ending may be simply a way of epitomizing a quality of a character. The Age of Innocence is a character s...

SOURCE: "Chapter XVII," in Conversations in Ebury Street, Chatto & Windus, 1969, pp. 211-23. In the following excerpt of a literary conversation originally published in 1924, Moore calls Agnes Grey "the most perfect prose narrative in Engli...

SOURCE: Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, "Bacchae and Ion: Tragedy and Religion," in The Masks of Tragedy: Essays on Six Greek Dramas, University of Texas Press, 1963, pp. 103-52. In the essay that follows, Rosenmeyer discusses the conversion of Admet...

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. It is now available in a number of editions, including a critical edition published in 2007...

Alice Adams may refer to: Alice Adams (novel) - a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Booth Tarkington. Alice Adams (writer) - an American novelist and writer from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Alice Adams (film) - a 1935 film based on the novel by...