I am a fan of literature and film that can be classified as gothic, a genre that encompasses stories of the supernatural, places inhabited by ghosts, demonic and angelic spirits, with dark, dangerous, and frightening … Gothic Redemption: A Review of Russell Kirk’s Watchers at the Strait GateRead more
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South[i While conversing with a colleague about the great English novelist, Jane Austen, she asked what I thought of Elizabeth Gaskell. I told her that I knew the name but … Elizabeth Gaskell, North and SouthRead more
Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen and was published posthumously. Its main character, Anne Elliot, is twenty-seven years old, the oldest of Austen’s chief female protagonists. She also seems to be the … Jane Austen’s PersuasionRead more
A badly mutilated body buried in another person’s grave, the theft of an emerald necklace, a cipher, French underclothing, multiple murders and deaths, bigamy, a massive flood, and the mysterious role of Tailor Paul, a … “Death Knell: A Review of Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors”Read more
One of the beneficial challenges of teaching at Cair Paravel Latin School, a classical Christian school, is that teachers and students read the classics. Sometime in the dog days of the last … On Reading a Classic: Virgil’s AeneidRead more
