There's a snake in the garden There's a serpent round your head If you listen to its whispers Your soul will end up dead. There's a wolf...

Full Name: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant Sanchez Born: August 5, 1850, in Tourville-sur-Arques, Normandy, France Died: July 6,...

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

Perhaps our fast-paced American culture has forgotten the pride of having produced something with our own hands to share with others, the pr

Welty grew up in Mississippi, and many of her stories are set in the South.

Far from sheltered harbor sails A ship with silence at its rails

Literary regionalism was, in a way, a bridge between the romanticism of the first half of the nineteenth century and the realism of the seco

Jewett grew up in Maine, where she based many of her works.

I started writing at the age of five, when I produced my first book, which consisted of about six pages of illegible handwriting. Now I...