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Category: Literature
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).
Do You Agree That A Confederacy of the Dunces Isn’t Really About Anything?
Article and Book Club Discussion Questions by James Evans James will lead our First Friday Classic Book Club Discussion of A Confederacy of the Dunces on Friday, June 7, 2019,
A Father Gives His Son the Gift of Dog Turd in Steinbeck’s East of Eden
A Modern Re-Telling of the Cain & Abel Story In Steinbeck’s East of Eden’s first modern re-telling of the Cain and Abel story, Charles the second son of Cyrus Trask
Adam Misses His Mother in Steinbeck’s Garden of Eden
“Adam discovered that his step-mother, Alice, had been walking around the house naked—and had been smiling. He wondered how she had dared such wantonness. And his longing (for a mother)
Exploring the Universal Wisdom of Steinbeck’s East of Eden – Part I
Searching for Steinbeck’s Beliefs in His Books In the next series of Litchattte Blogs, I will be considering John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel, East of Eden and the accompanying Journal he
Fiction and Non-Fiction in Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and East of Eden?
Travels with Charley – Fact or Fictions? In John Steinbeck’s last book, Travels with Charley (1962), he concluded that “We find after years of struggle that we do not take
It’s December and Time to Remember “The Raven”
“Tis the season of Advent on the Christian calendar, but Edgar A Poe is sitting in a dark and gloomy room alone on a blustery December evening in Philadelphia
Did Poe Write His Best-Selling Book?
Most readers of his work would never guess that Edgar Allan Poe’s bestselling book was The Conchologists First Book, first published in April 1839. The author of that book was listed as Edgar Allan
“Where is a Soldier’s Home?” Hemingway’s Short Stories VI
What is a Soldier’s Home, and Where is the best place for a young soldier to heal after he returns home from the horrors of war? In one of
