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...folklore and literature of nearly every tribe and climate are riddled with riddles. Enigmas abounded in ancient Rome, in Sanskrit hymns and the sagas of the Norse. Galileo composed some, so did Shakespeare and Cervantes. In the last century, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll experimented with trick questions; in this century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler...
...makes Death of a Harvard Freshman effective and amusing even to readers who have and will never be able to confirm Silver's lyrical description in the ravioli in the Freshman Union. Rather than letting Harvard overwhelm her story, Silver keeps her view affectionately mocking, her landscape tiny. Jane Austen once described her own novels as etchings on a square inch of ivory, rather than canvases to dominate a room. That strategy, it seems, could only help the vast majority of Harvard novelists...
David H. Donald. Warren Professor of American History, described Welty as "an American Jane Austen, clearly one of our very best 20th century writers...
Writing with an immediacy and vivacity on even such well-documented topics as the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the lives of Jane Austen and the Brontes, Walker mixes in with these subjects highly personal accounts of her own struggles as a feminist and an artist, in the end earning the right to call herself more than a feminist...
...message to high schools by demanding more requirements of freshmen entering state universities; some have demanded higher grades as well. Says University of Chicago Education Professor Philip Jackson: "Any kid who can follow the intricacies of an N.F.L. football game can follow the turns of plot in a Jane Austen novel or a Dickens tale...