The Selfishness of Suicide/ Ernest Hemingway
You could take the pistol out of the drawer and hold it. “Handle it freely,” was Grandfather’s expression. But you could not play with it because it was “a serious weapon” …. Then after your father had shot himself with this pistol, and you had come from school and they’d had the funeral, the […]
Down the River / Harriet Beecher Stowe
In order to appreciate the sufferings of the negroes sold south, it must be remembered that all the instinctive affections of that race are peculiarly strong. Their local attachments are very abiding. They are not naturally daring and enterprising, but home-loving and affectionate. Add to all the terrors with which ignorance invest the unknown, and […]
