Earrings

There is an old story behind this color exactly, a knight reaching for a small...

Mrs. deWinter never tells us her own first name in the whole of Rebecca, and...

Fitzgerald never really tells us what Daisy Buchanan looked like up close, only that her...

Wuthering Heights stands on a moor that never quite settles, and this is the sky...

Hester Prynne's daughter in The Scarlet Letter is named, simply, Pearl, a small bright thing...

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again, the narrator of Rebecca tells us,...

Poe buried Annabel Lee in a kingdom by the sea and then refused, entirely, to...

Countess Ellen Olenska arrives in Edith Wharton's New York already carrying the wrong kind of...

Where the bee sucks, there suck I, Ariel sings near the end of The Tempest,...

Anne Elliot waited eight years for a love she was talked out of once, and...

Emily Dickinson wrote of a bee arriving late to its flower, fainting with the reaching,...

Hester Prynne stitched her own scarlet letter in fine red cloth, framed, Hawthorne tells us,...