… psychological analysis of the human faith and soul is recognised as that of a genius by theologians, psychologists and literary critics alike. Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was born November 11th, 1821 in Moscow. Dostoyevsky was epileptic, but…

… of these are addressed in a serious manner, while others are presented humorously. By such cultural issues, the play is given an ambiguous tone, with a mood which is serious yet in many places comic. By examining examples of both comic and serious…

… whether it be a man, woman, child, or animal. In this sense, one can compare authors, such as their lives, their styles of writing, and their pieces of literature. There are many similarities and differences between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen…

… Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. This man created some of the most influential literary criticism of his time. Poe's parents were David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins. They both died before he reached the age of 3. He was then taken into…

… a master of surprise endings, who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot, which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance, is typical of O. Henry's stories. Born September 11, 1862 as William Sidney Porter,…

… books. These can range anywhere from long and tedious to short and boring. Some are worth the effort, while most just make us yawn. However, there are a few rare gems that are not always taught in school, but are in fact on lists of banned material…

… feckless father who is accurately described by Stephen Dedalus in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". The elder Joyce drifted steadily down the financial and sociale scale, his family moving from house to house, each one less genteel and more…

… born September 29, 1547, was a Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet. Cervantes was the author of the novel Don Quixote, a masterpiece of world literature that was a great influence to other renaissance writers. Cervantes was born to a poor family…

… People throughout history have often wondered why his writings were so fantastically different and unusual. They were not the result of a diseased mind, as some think. Rather they came from a tense and miserable life. Edgar Allan Poe was not a…

… the class system had been broken down by war, and was set in 1912 when the class system was still in existence. The audience would have generally been made up of upper class people, they also would have related to Eric and Sheila as the language they…