While Bombadil only features in The Lord of the Rings for a few short chapters, his role is more important than readers may realize.

Pursuing liberty is the identity Harriet Jacobs takes, an identity that she shares with her fellow Americans.

As Winthrop encourages Christians in his new settlements to live in godly charity towards one another, he shows that the powerful source of

Mathilde meets her downfall through excessive imagination, envy, and ingratitude, serving as a warning of the perils of discontent.

Gorgias makes rhetoric a power to wield, under which its listeners are victims.

A long-legged heron picks through the marsh, its elegant head raising itself to search for available fish. The girl watches from the pine...