Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language-and rightfully so. It is considered by most critics as the...
War-torn London, 1943, Lily (Friel), a vivacious English girl, falls in love with Charlie, a Canadian soldier. Impulsively, they marry, and Lily becomes pregnant before Charlie (Aden Young,...
Here is the dramatic exposé of the Chicago meat-packing industry at the turn of the century that prompted the investigation by Theodore Roosevelt that culminated in the pure-food legislation of...
Homer's Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its...
When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his first instinct is to toss it aside. Instead, he brings it...
John Dewey was America's most influential philosopher. Dewey's views are known as "pragmatism," which emphasizes action and results. He believed that knowledge and ethics, as well as art and...
Subtitled Adventures of a Curious Character, the title comes from the response his eyebrow-raising behavior once provoked from a Princeton dean's wife. Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize in...
