Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Frederick Crews
Born: 1933 (age 91)
Bio: Frederick Campbell Crews is an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James, E. M.
Known for:
- Pooh Perplex (1963)
- Postmodern Pooh (2001)
- The Memory Wars (1995)
- Follies of the Wise (2006)
- Skeptical Engagements (1986)