In Poe’s first serialized version of “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” his fictional tale of the real-life Mary Rogers murder, a female body was discovered in the Seine River about
Author: Murray Ellison
Murray Ellison is a Lifelong Learner of Literature, Music, and Poetry. He teaches those subjects at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Richmond. He is a Board Member of The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, and Coordinator of The RVA (Richmond) Classic Book Club. He is the Founder and Chief Editor of Litchatte.com and does professional editing. Before all of that he, retired as the Director of Community Corrections for the Virginia Department of Correctional Education. He has taught at every level from elementary and special education through college.
He earned a Master of Arts in English Literature at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Doctorate Degree in Special Education at Virginia Tech.
Poe’s Mystery of Marie Roget: Fictional Murder Mystery or Real-Life Journalism? (I fo II)
In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), the police assume that the murders have been committed by some persons associated with the victim. Dupin discards this unproven assumption and
How the Tortoise Shell Got Cracked – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Murray leads The Classic Book Club in Midlothian, Virginia, where we recently discussed this book* The novel takes its title from a verse in the poem “The Second Coming”
Race Matters: Coming of Age in William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished
By Mary Evans Ramsey – A Review of Our First Friday Classic Book Study of William Faulkner’s, The Unvanquished* Let me begin by saying that William Faulkner’s work can
Poe Solves First Gruesome Murders in The First Detective Story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841)*
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), is the first detective story written by Edgar Allan Poe and is considered to be the first-ever story of the detective genre, In
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Novel of Self Examination: A Discussion by Mary Ramsey Evans
Author and early twentieth celebrity, F. Scott Fitzgerald described Tender is the Night as his most important novel. He worked on the novel for nine years and wrote at least
Poe Is The First to Write About Ratiocination and Detective Fiction
Urban crime was an area of acute interest in the nineteenth century in America and Europe because the public feared that it was rampant and out of the control of
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot: “Animals are Unpredictable”
“You never know what’s in store for you in our profession. Animals are unpredictable things. .Our life is an unpredictable tale of little triumphs and disasters, and you’ve got to
My Review of Steinbeck’s East of Eden
(After my previous series of Litchatte.com essays on Steinbeck’s East of Eden, I have re-written my first posting on this book here, and re-focused it here as a book review).
The Ghost of Adam Trask in Steinbeck’s East of Eden
“Young Adam was always an obedient child. Something in him shrank from violence, from contention, from the silent shrieking tensions that can rip at a house.” In this blog on