It's the end of the world as we know itIt's the end of the world as we know itIt's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine – R.E.M. I refuse to read the political news for the next four years. The other day I sat down with popcorn to…

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27.11.2024

Willa Cather’s Peers: Neglected Midwestern Women Writers – Thornfield Hall

If asked to list midwestern women writers of the early 20th century, you might be perplexed momentarily. Then you remember Willa Cather, the Pulitzer Prize winner, and the effect of her brilliant novels on generations of women. Her masterpieces, A Lost Lady, The Professor's House, and Lucy Gayheart, are incomparable, deftly mixing tragedy and humor.…

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28.11.2024

A White Thanksgiving – Thornfield Hall

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and a lovely snowfall enhances it, but even white Christmases are rare. In December, there used to be heaps of snow dumped at intersections by snowplows. Not till January nowadays. Still, I remember one “white Thanksgiving” when there was a foot of snow. The sky was beautifully white, nature in…

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03.12.2024

A Father’s Cruelty: Dickens’s “Dombey and Son” – Thornfield Hall

“My dear Paul! He’s quite a Dombey!” I love Dickens's seventh novel, Dombey and Son, an inter-class portrait of characters connected, however distantly, to Mr. Dombey, the rich, glacially-cold owner of Dombey and Son. Dickens’ wit and satire radiate from the axis of Mr. Dombey’s draconian manners. Dombey is one of Dickens's most misogynist characters,…

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Yeah, We’re Americans! A Rant – Thornfield Hall

Willa Cather’s Peers: Neglected Midwestern Women Writers – Thornfield Hall

A White Thanksgiving – Thornfield Hall

A Father’s Cruelty: Dickens’s “Dombey and Son” – Thornfield Hall

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