In a previous post, I argued that Daniel Defoe's classic novel, Robinson Crusoe, is essentially an elaborated autistic fantasy of isolation, and one whose...
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Considered Swift's masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels is the most brilliant as well as the most bitter and controversial of his satires.
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Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated is 694 pages long and retails for $35 on Amazon. The paperback edition is a doorstop, bulging with more ink than Ulysses...
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Whether it was Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, the saying “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes” is apt for...
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On Nov. 28, 2018, former President George H.W. Bush died at his home in Houston, six months after the passing of his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush.
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Alexander Pope is hardly an unknown quantity. Born in London to a family of merchants in 1688 and buried in a Catholic Church in the suburb of Twickenham in...
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They are then forced to show their true colors: childish emotional extremes, infantile...
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They include: -- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508. -- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667. -- Novelist Mark Twain, born Samuel...
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Sally Rooney has been dubbed 'the first great millennial novelist' after publishing several well-received novels that highlight issues of class inequality,...
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If I thought it would make a difference, I would take a page from Jonathan Swift and write my own modern proposal. I would call it “A Modest Proposal for...
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