Possible origins of Dickens’ famous jilted bride
Whence sprang Miss Havisham? (Also: why are there no representations terrifying and desiccated enough?)
Whence sprang Miss Havisham? (Also: why are there no representations terrifying and desiccated enough?)
“That image of Greene — hands clutching cruelly at air — could itself slide nicely into one of Stevenson’s more macabre tales.”
“The extraordinary thing about John Steinbeck is how good he can be when so much of the time he’s so bad.” (See also.)
Building, perhaps, on the resounding success of abstinence-only sex education, a government-funded health database has reprogrammed its software to prevent users from searching for information about abortion. The term has been reclassified as a “stop word,” meaning that it is treated as the functional equivalent of “a,” “an,” and “the” (terms automatically omitted from searches under the assumption that they . . .
Actually, the closer a lover’s taste in books was to mine, the more disastrous the break-up tended to be. But maybe you guys have literary dealbreakers?