Jonathan Franzen's “Crossroads” is a hefty experiment: How far can you get exploring American ordinariness with a Tolstoyan depth? Quite far, actually.

The conventional game mechanics of today's WoW-like MMORPGs are thousands of years old -- at least dating back to the Ancient Greeks. That's the thesis of Classics professor Roger Travis of the ...

A spiritual, literary epic: The Ramayana - Valmiki's Ramayana has a direct and indirect meaning Some see in it only a great literary work dealing with the heroic exploits of Rama But following the ...

Valmiki's Ramayana has a direct and indirect meaning. Some see in it only a great literary work dealing with the heroic exploits of Rama.

Wise or not to the life beneath them, such raucous was uneccessary. So what do you think about Beowulf, an epic hero or literary beast?

Each leaf (in 8vo.) contains about 60 lines, but the two leaves are not consecutive. We have thus 120 lines of an Old English Epic, on the adventures of [???]Etla (Attila) the Waldere (Walther).

British playwright Helen Edmundson is equal parts chemist, historian, literary sleuth and trapeze artist. All these talents are needed to adapt for the stage such epic novels as Tolstoy’s War… ...

The stage is set and as it stands, one out of the overwhelming 252 entries received for the 2025 Nigeria Prize For Literature will, expectedly, emerge victorious come October this year.

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Readers' Favorite announces the review of the Fiction - Fantasy - Epic book "Beginning of Arrogance" by Bryan Cole, currently available at ...