Tag: Mark Twain

  • Gutenberg Books

    from Gutenberg: Easy Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Call of the Wild by Jack London Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Medium Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père Winesburg, Ohio; a group of…

  • Why read literature?(English 30)

    Mark Twain once shrewdly observed that a person who chooses not to read has no advantage over a person who is unable to read. In industrialized societies today, however, the question is not who reads, because nearly everyone can and does, but what is read. Why should anyone spend precious time with literature when there…