Fairy Tales
April 4, 2022
The Hare’s Bride by The Brothers Grimm
There was once a woman and her daughter who lived in a pretty garden with…
Poetry
October 7, 2021
A Warm Day in Winter by Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Warm Day in Winter is a formative example of Dunbar’s dialect verses.“Sunshine on de…
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February 25, 2025
Here’s the longlist for this year’s International Booker Prize.
The longlist for this year’s International Booker Prize 2025 has been announced. The annually given…
Small Story
September 30, 2021
Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
Chapter I–Barbox Brothers “Guard! What place is this?” “Mugby Junction, sir.” “A windy place!” “Yes,…
Sonnet
May 9, 2021
William Shakespeare – Sonnet 23
As an unperfect actor on the stage,Who with his fear is put beside his part,Or…
Plays
July 27, 2021
The Anniversary by Anton Chekhov
The Anniversary CHARACTERS ANDREY ANDREYEVITCH SHIPUCHIN, Chairman of the N—— Joint Stock Bank, a middle-aged…
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December 13, 2024
Lit Hub Daily: December 13, 2024
TODAY: In 1784, Samuel Johnson dies. The Beatles breaking up: on the protracted end of…
Sonnet
May 31, 2021
William Shakespeare – Sonnet 102
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;I love not less, though less the…
Poetry
October 7, 2021
Preludes by T.S. Eliot
I The winter evening settles downWith smell of steaks in passageways.Six o’clock.The burnt-out ends of…
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March 5, 2025
“The Old Current,” a Poem by Brad Leithauser
A gritty bench, a grubby river, And an ongoing wave of wonderment: How capable and…
