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The White Knight is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass. He represents the chess piece of the same name. As imagined in John Tenniel 's illustrations for the Alice stories, he is inspired by Albrecht Dürer 's 1513 engraving " Knight, Death and the Devil ."
A white knight is a mythological figure and literary stock character. They are portrayed alongside a black knight as diametric opposites. A white knight usually represents a heroic warrior fighting against evil, with the role in medieval literature being represented by a knight-errant .
"Haddocks' Eyes" is the nickname [1] of the name of a song sung by The White Knight from Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, chapter VIII. "Haddocks' Eyes" is an example used to elaborate on the symbolic status of the concept of " name ": a name as identification marker may be assigned to anything, including another name, thus ...
White Night is the 9th book in The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher's continuing series about wizard detective Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. The cover art by illustrator Christian McGrath depicts Harry walking down a snowy street with his glowing staff.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. It was released in the Everyman's Library , a series of reprinted classic literature, as one of the titles chosen to mark the series' 100th anniversary. [ 1 ]
Letters of E. B. White (1976) Essays of E. B. White (1977) Poems and Sketches of E. B. White (1981) Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976 (1990, HarperCollins, ed. Rebecca M. Dale) Farewell to Model T / From Sea to Shining Sea (2003, Little Bookroom) In the Words of E. B. White (2011) An E. B. White Reader. Edited by William W. Watt and Robert ...
The Violet Quill (or the Violet Quill Club) was a group of seven gay male writers that met in 1980 and 1981 [1] in New York City to read from their writings to each other and to critique them. [2] This group and the writers epitomize the years between the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the AIDS pandemic.
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (March 9, 1897) [1] is a series of essays by Mark Twain. All except one of the essays were published previously in magazines. The essays included are the following: How to Tell a Story (originally published October 3, 1895). In Defence of Harriet Shelley (August 1894). Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences ...