"The Stationmaster" is a story in The Belkin Tales by the Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin. The story is a frame tale, told by A.G.N., a government official who stops at a post station, where he meets the stationmaster's beautiful daughter Dunya. A.G.N. returns to the station later and learns that after caring for a high-ranking officer who became gravely ill, Dunya was kidnapped by him. Years later, A.G.N. returns again, learning that the stationmaster has died and that Dunya came to pay her respects.
The book THE SUN ALSO RISES By ERNEST HEMINGWAY contains 251 pages filled with sadness devastation and lost love The plot is based on real people the Hemingway knew and that angered a lot of his friends if any Robert Cohn the main character is feeling inferior because he is Jewish and starts a boxing career to feel better about himself He married the first girl he meets out of college Then he meets a new woman in CA and then takes her to Europe with him while he is working on his novel He retur
Throughout history mankind has been ravaged by war From ancient Egypt to the Greeks and even the Romans to the modern ages with wars like World War I and World War II and even the war in Iraq War I something that humans are bound to do and will continue to do throughout history In Timothy Findleys novel The Wars Findley tries to portray the ideas of the brutality of war and the devastation that it causes Also both the emotional and physical pain that war causes as well Another thing that Findle
Civil Disobedience Civil disobedience is a public nonviolent political act contrary to law usually done with the aim of bringing about a change in the law or policies of the government The idea of civil disobedience is deeply rooted in our civilization with examples evident in the life of Socrates the early Christian society the writings of Thomas Aquinas and Henry David Thoreau and theIndian nationalist movement led by Gandhi The many occurrences of civil disobedience throughout American histo
Critical Essays Analysis of The Prelude The Prelude is the greatest long poem in our language after Paradise Lost says one critic Its comparison with the great seventeenth century epic is in some respects a happy one since Milton was after Coleridge Wordsworths greatest idol The Prelude may be classed somewhat loosely as an epic it does not satisfy all the traditional qualifications of that genre The epic is customarily defined as a long narrative poem which recounts heroic actions commonly leg