7 People Who Hated Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Despite how beloved Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' is, there have been plenty of people who hated it.
Despite how beloved Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' is, there have been plenty of people who hated it.
Stephen King is known as the master of horror, but his storied career would never have happened if his wife hadn't fished his first book out of the trash.
In 1969, Ebert was asked to write a "camp rock-and-roll horror exploitation musical." So he did.
A new analysis shows that we're more error-prone during the first day of the work week—and that these mistakes affect response rate.
"My parents were always uncertain and it really doesn't matter. I celebrate January 2, 1920, so let it be."
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These well known duos lived out their relationships on the page.
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The research on how cursive handwriting benefits educational development is spotty.
T.S. Eliot is best known for writing "The Waste Land," but the Nobel Prize winner was also a prankster who coined a perennially popular curse word and created the characters brought to life in the Broadway musical "Cats."
As one of the founding fathers of science fiction, Herbert George Wells certainly had a lot to say about the human race.
The long list includes bacon, peach cobbler, and possum.
The retreat is located on Pelee Island in Lake Erie, where Atwood is a longtime seasonal resident.
London-based computer scientists have created an algorithm that can mimic the handwriting of Arthur Conan Doyle, Frida Kahlo, or you and me.
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
Happy birthday to poet Ogden Nash, known for his ability to turn a witty verse on everything from politics to celery.
Anita Thompson returned the trophy on his behalf.
It aims to be the ultimate workspace for creative types.
We're really, truly, highly interested in helping you improve that lazy vocabulary.
On May 30, 1593, the writer arrived at a lodging house for drinks with friends and never emerged.
And what happens if we apply them sideways?
Bob Dylan—the legendary artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman—has spent the past 50-plus years trying to keep a low profile.
Because sometimes, periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do.