Saturday, September 10, 2011
First Lines: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst.
Friday, September 9, 2011
First Lines: E. T. A. Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixir
Who is there, over the wide world, who has not, at one period or another, in a more or less degree, felt the mysterious influences of love?
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
