An Experiment with the Well-Educated Mind

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• Classics Club February Meme
  on Feb 5, 2013 in Crime and Punishment
   “What classic has most surprised you so far, and why?”            Frankly, I considered not answering this question because I was stumped for quite awhile, until I revisited my list of...
• Those Darn Books!
  on Feb 4, 2013 in Huckleberry Finn
  Tom Sawyer is up to mischief, and to be sure, he’s doing it by the books. “I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do.” “Do you want to go to doing different from what’s in the books, and get things...
• Don Quixote and Huckleberry Finn, continued
  on Feb 4, 2013 in Huckleberry Finn Don Quixote
  An update from an earlier post: out of curiosity, I did a search of Don Quixote and Huckleberry Finn, and I found this from http://alpha.fdu.edu/DON QUIXOTE AND THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINNHere is a portion of what it says:Huck F...
• The Portrait of a Lady: in which I answer my rhetorical question with more questions:
  on Feb 1, 2013 in The Portrait of a Lady
  The Rhetoric Stage QuestionsIs there an argument in this novel, and do you agree?            Henry James presents his main character, Isabel Archer, as an intelligent, curious young American ahea...
• The Portrait of a Lady: What does Isabel Archer want, and how does she get it?
  on Jan 31, 2013 in The Portrait of a Lady
  Logic Stage QuestionsNicole Kidman as Isabel ArcherWhat does the main character want?  What is standing in her way?  What strategy does she pursue in order to overcome this block?          &...
• The Portrait of a Lady: What is the most important event?
  on Jan 30, 2013 in The Portrait of a Lady
  Rachel Gurney by George Frederick Watts, 1885Grammar Stage Questions:Who is the central character?  Isabel ArcherWhat is the book’s most important event?               Henry Jame...
• Why Read the Classics
  on Jan 29, 2013
  Oliver DeMilleOliver DeMille, American author of A Thomas Jefferson Education and founder of George Wythe University, asked these three questions in a lecture titled Why Read the Classics (2000): 1. What books are your companions throu...
• The End for Isabel Archer; or is it?
  on Jan 28, 2013 in The Portrait of a Lady
  Chapter 51 – 55            After receiving Mrs. Touchett’s letter requesting Isabel come to England immediately because Ralph is dying, Isabel informs Osmond that she must go to him; Osmond v...
• Coming Soon: My First Mark Twain
  on Jan 27, 2013 in Huckleberry Finn
  The Watermelon Boys - Winslow Homer, 1876On the cover of my copy of Huckleberry FinnAdmittedly, I have never read Mark Twain.  (I know!)  And so we (he, the American author, and I) meet as I become acquainted with my copy of The Adventures...
• Is there any hope for Isabel?
  on Jan 25, 2013 in The Portrait of a Lady
  Chapters 48 – 50            Isabel asks her friends to check on Ralph, who is preparing to leave Rome for England; Henrietta not only checks on him, but she plans to escort him and care for him...

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