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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 19

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 18Chapter 20Chapter 19 "There is no use your telling me that you are going to be good," cried Lord Henry, dipping his white fingers into a red copper bowl…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Halloween[1]

by Robert Burns Fragment-Her Flowing LocksTo A Mouse, On Turning Her Up ...Halloween[1] The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who…

Top 100 Most Inspiring Films

The following table lists the top 100 most inspiring films of all time, according to the American Film Institute, including Schindler's List and To Kill a Mockingbird. A jury of 1,500 film artists…

Malta

(Encyclopedia) CE5 MaltaMaltamôlˈtə [key], officially Republic of Malta, republic (2015 est. pop. 428,000), 122 sq mi (316 sq km), in the Mediterranean Sea S of Sicily. It comprises the islands of…

Catalonia

(Encyclopedia) Catalonia Catalonia kătəlōˈnēə [key], Catalan Catalunya, Span. Cataluña,…

still life

(Encyclopedia) still life, a pictorial representation of inanimate objects. The term derives from the 17th-century Dutch still-leven, meaning a motionless natural object or objects. In East Asia…

Book Six

Book Six   The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to…

National Film Registry

Each year since 1989, the Library of Congress adds 25 films to the National Film Registry to ensure that each film will be preserved in its original form. The films, which must be at least…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book V

Book V Now Morn her rosie steps in th' Eastern Clime Advancing, sow'd the Earth with Orient Pearle, When ADAM wak't, so customd, for his sleep Was Aerie light, from pure digestion bred, And…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cyclops

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to VenusEpigramsThe Cyclops A Satyric Drama Translated from the Greek of Euripides Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824; dated 1819.…