The opposite of utopia, stories of dystopia are characterized by tragic human consequences of current day practices including climate instability, squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. Compare utopia.
As Dante and Virgil make their way through the Inferno, they encounter demons with pitchforks. Although the pitchforks are raised, as if to attack, th...
Understanding Dante's Inferno becomes much-easier when we view illustrations by an artist like Gustave Dore.
The story of how Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is almost as interesting as the work itself.
Passing through the frozen part of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil encounter heads which seem to be completely frozen in ice. Gustave Dore illust...
Meet Indominus Rex, a lab-created dinosuar hybrid with ferocious tendencies and the DNA of four dinosaurs (including that of one whom paleontologists ...
Until the 1960s, English translations were not completely faithful to Jules Verne's famous writings. How did this happen?
Throughout the centuries, artists have created works of art depicting "The Odyssey," a tale which Homer created likely in the second half of the 8th C...
In "The Hunger Games," people believe that District 13 (once a part of Panem) no longer exists. It was destroyed, they think, by the Capitol. Then...K...
Making their way through the various parts of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil come to the "Ninth Circle of Hell." There they see a gigantic figure...
On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles and his colleagues at Mercury Theatre on the Air played a prank on the American people.
An epic is a story, usually in the form of a narrative poem, featuring a hero who prevails despite terrible odds.
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