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The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by Gaston Leroux, in which the phantom is a real person, as we discover after getting familiar with the story. The phantom, or Erik, hides behind this made up,...

Dostoevsky dedicates many lines in his short story, White Nights, to the city of Saint Petersburg. He does not just set a story in a chosen place, a background- he tells a story highly influenced...

    Francois Rabelais was a French humanist of the Renaissance period. He was a great contributor to the development of humanism, so often his ideas are common to those of humanist...

    The word comes from music and it is characterized by the recurrence of a short musical phrase. Of German origin: from leit- "leading"+motiv "motive". Adopted in...