Tagged: Literature
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Leo Tolstoy
(Author’s note: “Writing Gooder” is a blog run by the Young Writers Society and its target audience is teenagers and young college students. Many of these young writers have no idea who Tolstoy was!...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Louisa May Alcott
1. She lived within walking distance of Ralph Waldo Emerson… and had a lot of company. When Louisa was 8, she and her family moved into a house nearby Emerson’s cottage in Concord. Over...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Sylvia Plath
With 2013 being the 50th anniversary of Plath’s suicide, writers around the world have gathered to fondly remember the troubled poet. Yet the dark story she has to tell is not one to take...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Twain
Once a controversial figure banned from student libraries, Mark Twain has been called the greatest American author ever to have lived. His novels can be found in literature classrooms around the world…if they’re not...
Authors from Around the Globe: Kazuo Ishiguro
When we hear world literature, the first thing which appears on our mind is the diversity of languages and culture and history inscribed on the pieces’ text and context. Taking this note aside, world...
