Until I came to Brandham hall the world of my imagination had been peopled by fictitious beings wo behaved as I wanted them to behave; at Br...

I have heard it said that scientific study can take away a sense of wonder because science reduces a miraculous organism into mere mechanica...

I want what Tala has. I'm not ashamed to say it. I want her bony ankles and her wedge-heeled boots. I want the skin of her smooth forehe...

When I was a boy my brother David and I had to go to bed early whether we were sleepy or not. In summer particularly, bedtime often came bef...

It is undignified for a human being to the be the victim of a historical predicament. It is a confession that one has been worsted, not by a...

Where did the bomb fall? The various lanes of the city rise up in my imagination. I try to guess from which direction the sound of the explo...

The wheel went round. The thread snapped, but was re-knit again. In hell the limbs of sinners are broken and mended, broken and mended. Men ...

This book seeks to reorient U.S. history by redressing the absence of American Indians within it. Covering five hundred years of history, it...

Thanks to the side panels of the mirror, I saw the two halves of my face separately, far apart, and I was drawn first by my right profile, t...

Language, one that you don't understand, can be pleasant now and then... It's like a kind of fog in your head... It's nice, ther...