<![CDATA[Springfield-Greene County Books & Authors Research]]> <![CDATA[W.S. Merwin named new U.S. Poet Laureate]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Project puts 1 million books online for blind, dyslexic ]]> <![CDATA[The Writers of the W.P.A.]]> <![CDATA[The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes]]> Sherlock Holmes, the creation of novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first appeared in publication in 1887. Mystery readers throughout the decades have learned of the British detective's deductive prowess through 56 short stories and four novels, narrated by Holmes' friend, side-kick, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.
 ]]> <![CDATA[Women writing in 19th Century America]]> <![CDATA[African-American Literature has a Rich History of Wonderful Writers]]> February is a time when we celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans. ]]> <![CDATA["The Rhythm is Keeping Us Alive: Celebrating African American Poetry" ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Best Books of 2009]]> <![CDATA['Tis the season — every year at this time — for the various renderings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. ]]> A Christmas Carol (1843), and also a Christmas fairy story intended to be read aloud on winter evenings, The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy-tale of Home (1846).
]]> <![CDATA[Victorian Web provides a feast of literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria]]> <![CDATA[And the winner is....]]> Colum McCann’s novel “Let the Great World Spin” took the fiction prize among five finalists at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City Wednesday , November 18.  Other winners were..
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