The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley's dramatic if short life and in his works, enigmatic, inspiring, and lastin...

The Perils of Pauline was a silent movie serial which debuted in 1914. A second serial of this name was released in 1934. There is also a 1947 feature movie which makes reference to the earlier serial, and a 1967 feature film....

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manusc...

A Personal Record (also known as Some Reminiscences ) (1912) is a book by Joseph Conrad . Contents 1 A Familiar Preface 2 Chapter I 3 Chapter II 4 Chapter III 5 Chapter V 6 Chapter VI 7 Chapter VII 8 See also 9 External links // A Familiar...

SOURCE: A review of Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock, in The New York Times Book Review, September 20, 1914, p. 386. In the following favorable review of Personality Plus, the critic discusses the "fine...

Peter Ibbetson is an American black-and-white drama film released in 1935 and directed by Henry Hathaway.[1] The picture is based on the George du Maurier's 1891 novel and the play by John Nathaniel Raphael. This tale of a love that transce...

SOURCE: "Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl," in Literature and Psychology, Vol. XVII, Nos. 2 and 3, 1967, pp. 120-27. In the following essay, Neumarkt interprets Peter Schlemihl as an introverted personality type with repressed extrovert tendencie...