101 Masterpieces: Moby-Dick
Herman Melville had everything a young author could dream of. Then he wrote Moby-Dick and ruined everything.
Herman Melville had everything a young author could dream of. Then he wrote Moby-Dick and ruined everything.
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As a successful writer of works for both children and adults, E.B. White received fan mail often. But even though he seemed to hate it, that didn't stop him from writing back.
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We entered a bunch of famous first lines from literature and asked RapPad to give us back some gems.
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Sylvia Beach convinced the author to record passages of his most famous books.
For famous writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, turbulent real-life relationships rivaled the dramas that played out on the page.
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Shakespeare’s life is as full of fiction as his plays are.
When it comes to cranking out literary treasures, celebrated authors have turned to some strange strategies to find their muse.
Before Ernest Hemingway was a literary giant, he was a cub reporter. When Hem graduated high school at 18, he moved to Kansas City and started a six-month stint with the Kansas City Star—a job that molded his trademark punchy, staccato style.
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It's an exciting time: Nobel Prizes are being announced this week for achievements in medicine, literature, and more. Here are a few surprising facts about this annual honor.
"Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig Jane Austen up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
Throughout history, the chance to make an occasional fart joke has often proven irresistible, even to such influential authors as Aristophanes, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain.
Just as today pirates walk into cinemas around the world and record movies from the screen to sell as knock-off DVDs before a major release, so back in the 1600s unscrupulous businessmen would walk into the pit at plays and commit an equivalent act of pir
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While Where the Wild Things Are is Maurice Sendak’s best known book, it’s not his only notable one. Here are five other masterpieces from the author and illustrator you should read.
Would a Great American Novel by any other name be as sweet? Based on the other titles F. Scott Fitzgerald considered for 'The Great Gatsby,' we’d have to say no.
After making the butler the culprit in her book, Rinehart would later be almost killed by one of her own servants who wanted to be promoted to her butler.
Fictional characters provide the inspiration for the names of hundreds of plants and animals. Here are 11 of the most unusual.