1920s Paris, a group of disillusioned expatriates pursues a life of utter debauchery. American veteran Jake Barnes lives under the cloud of an emasculating war injury, Lady Brett Ashley substitutes a life of promiscuity for the love she cannot share with Jake, Mike Campbell delib...
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Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), who reigned as king of Macedonia for only thirteen years, set a flame of conquest that introduced the dynamism of Hellenism to the Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Worlds. Re-creating their ossified cultures, he established a st...
Written before his masterpiece Peter Pan , J. M. Barrie's novel Sentimental Tommy grapples with a number of the same themes that the author would later so memorably enshrine in his best-known work. Both feature a central character who clings to the vestiges of youth and refuse...