Wuthering Heights 2026
Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights, is a brilliant work that challenges class, obsession, and race, through a tragic tale set in England’s Yorkshire Moors. I read the novel for the first time over winter break, finishing it over the course of three days. In the past century, there have been more than a dozen…
War’s Gift
The hammer beat against the red-hot sword, their clang resounding through the empty forge, a war cry. Once, twice, thrice, the Blacksmith beat the steel, until it was as smooth as a blade of grass, but far deadlier. Satisfied, he plunged the weapon into a vat of oil and hung it on the wall, to…
Aeneas vs Odysseus
Virgil’s Aeneid is the story of an epic hero, Aeneas, who rose from the ashes of Troy, exchanging his humanity for the immortality of founding Rome. The story picks up at the end of Homer’s Iliad, and the first three books alone, parallel the Odyssey in a variety of ways. Virgil uses a number of…
Time’s Curse
“I knew love once,” Time says to me, his stony clock face void of emotion. I have never laid eyes on him before, but when he first entered my shop, mere minutes ago, I knew him on sight. Now, his giant form sits hunched in the wicker chair across from me, looking as out of…
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