A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

James Joyce (1882—1941) was one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century.

Love Came Knocking at the Door

Rajeania’s mother Donna hadn’t seen or thought about this neighbor in years, then one day he comes knocking on her door.

“Helena” by Evelyn Waugh

Published in 1950, it concerns the titular empress and saint, who lived during the 200s and 300s A.D. and was the mother of Constantine the Great. 

History of Japanese Religion by Masaharu Anesaki

In a 1974 movie called The Yakuza, it is claimed that the Japanese do not believe in a heaven or hell.

Last Breath

As I sat by her side In the still of the night

The Flame That Grows Inside

Inside each of us lives a flame that grows for a love of life. It illuminates the darkness that surrounds our emotions and thoughts and keeps the flow of dreams and desires.

“Koba the Dread” by Martin Amis

But horror more than anything else permeates Amis’s history of the Soviet Union. He gives readers a nightmarish overview of a little-known and enforced famine that ended the lives of some five million people.

The World of Dogs

Dog memes to make your day brighter.

His Hand Holds Our Hearts

Signatures of our spiritual energies felt during the embracing of memories and sorrows are spun inside the mind...

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Published in 1932, it is an autobiographical novel that is told in first-person by a character named Ferdinand Bardamu.  He is a doctor but talks like a criminal, and his slangy, vulgar voice is generally gripping and sometimes uproarious.  It can also be quite disturbing, as when he describes his combat experiences during World War I.

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