Rip Van Winkle
A posthumous writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker
By Woden, God of Sacons, from whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday. Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into my sepulchre--
Cartwright
[The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, m old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of th
posthumously) for his Collected Stories.
Faulkner was also an acclaimed writer of mysteries, publishing a collection of crime fiction, Knights Gambit, that featured Gavin Stevens (who also appeared in Light in August, Go Down, Moses, The Town, Intruder in the Dust, and the short story Hog Pawn), an attorney, wise to the ways of folk living in Yoknapatawpha County. He set many of his short stories
write this book? -It took years out of my life...
but dont let that influence you.
Would you sign this for me?
-Are you sure? -Sure!
-What would you like me to say? -Youre the author.
Thanks.
-"Enjoy". I definitely will. -Please, do.
-Thanks. -Thank you.
-Bye. -Bye.
This is the story of Byron Tiller...
a modest man living in a modest Pasadena neighborhood.
A neighborhood built for middle income f
- The “new world” that Columbus boasted of to the Spanish monarchs in 1500 was neither an expanse of empty space nor a replica of European culture, tools, textiles, and religion, but a combination of Native, European, and African people living in complex relation to one another.
- The Native cultures Columbus found in the New World displayed a huge variety of languages, social customs, and cr
Donne was born in London, into a Roman Catholic
family when practice of
that religion was illegal in
England.
Early Life
It is thought that his final
illness was stomach cancer,
although this has not been
proven. He died on 31 March 1631 having written many
poems, most only in manuscript. Donne was buried in old St Paul`s Cathedral.