http://www.articleheaven.net en-us editorial@articlealley.com Endowed with wealth, brains, and good looks, Emma Woodhouse (twenty-years old) busies herself with other peoples' lives as she -thinking herself worldly and clever- goes about scheming and conjuring up romantic liaisons. But it will turn out that she's ne... http://www.articleheaven.net/jane-austens-emma-1310049.html 22nd December 2009 Year after year I waited for Ed McBain's new books like a kid waits for Christmas, books that he produced with certain regularity. Not even once was I disappointed. This writer delivered the goods not because it was expected of him, but because he was a m... http://www.articleheaven.net/mcbain-the-gutter-and-the-grave--a-paean-1307348.html 21st December 2009 In 1981, Salman Rushdie published Midnight Children, a novel that one can say belongs to the genre of magic realism. Though the genre has been totally dominated by Latin American writers -Garcia Marquez, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, and Laura Esquivel- the... http://www.articleheaven.net/salman-rushdie--parody-in-midnight-children-1286427.html 10th December 2009 The Irishman Laurence Sterne published his bizarre novel in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. It is a humorous work, though some critics -Samuel Johnson among them- found it odd and predi... http://www.articleheaven.net/lawrence-sterne---tristram-shandy-1283848.html 10th December 2009 For some reason every time I read an inspirational book I go to it with a skeptical mind. What platitudes will I read, I ask myself. What commonplaces, pseudo-sage advice will I have to put up with? Although Paul Coelho's novelette is passable, it verifie... http://www.articleheaven.net/paul-coelhos-the-alchemist--pseudoneoplatonists-sour-mash-1256122.html 26th November 2009 In October 1929 the stock market crashed, making obvious the problems that caused the Great Depression. 'This market crash of 1929 may be the worst economic crisis in American history. In September 2008 The worst liquidity crisis unfolded over a weeken... http://www.articleheaven.net/obamas-stimulus-package-is-working-keynesian-economics-is-alive-1222654.html 09th November 2009 This is wonderful book, to own, to treasure, to read and re-read for a lifetime!Trollope's Autobiography is a perennial source of wisdom--besides being inspirational--to writers, but in particular to fiction writers. The book in general is an ABC of perfe... http://www.articleheaven.net/anthony-trollopes-autobiography-1098328.html 18th September 2009