René Girard (1923-2015) - French philosopher, creator of the original comprehensive theory of the origin of religion and culture. He was made famous by the b...

William Wordsworth (1770–1850), a major figure of English romanticism, a representative of the “Lake School,” in his twilight years (1843–1850) served as Poe...

“There was a hole in the ground, and in the hole lived a hobbit.” These words were written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on the back of a school exam paper he...

Clifford Donald Simak is deservedly considered one of the masters of American science fiction. The patriarch of this genre of literature has over thirty nove...

A smile, gesture, posture, glance, sigh, touch can sometimes tell much more about a person than his speech or letter. The authors of this fundamental monogra...

A smile, gesture, posture, glance, sigh, touch can sometimes tell much more about a person than his speech or letter. The authors of this fundamental monogra...

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Richard Wagner's “My Life” is both a valuable document of the era and an eyewitness account. Attention to small details, descriptions of everyday details, ch...

Far, far away in the ocean there is a mysterious Wild Island. There, in the impenetrable jungle and muddy waters of the big river, there live treacherous ani...

When talking about Stevens, one certainly remembers his many years of service in the insurance business, moreover, in respectable positions: head of the clai...

Richard Wagner's “My Life” is both a valuable document of the era and an eyewitness account. Attention to small details, descriptions of everyday details, ch...