Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Caffeinated Classics: Darkness at Noon
We at Coffee Hero wondered whether you could get a decent cup of coffee behind the Iron Curtain.
We at Coffee Hero wondered whether you could get a decent cup of coffee behind the Iron Curtain.
Coffee ruined Henry Thoreau’s day, and failed to help Ralph Waldo Emerson nurture his genius.
Can permanent happiness be achieved without coffee? It seems implausible, and “Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley apparently agrees.
East of Eden characters drink coffee in many of the book’s most pivotal scenes. A few times, it almost seems ceremonial.
As a literary dork and coffee junkie, I can’t help but notice when coffee shows up in the books I read:
Tom Hamilton loves his sister Dessie more than anyone else in the family. That is why Tom loses it when Dessie falls in love, if it can be called that — her love is “a [...]
As a literary dork and coffee junkie, I can’t help but notice when coffee shows up in the books I read:
Samuel Hamilton was born in Ireland, but settled down in California’s Salinas Valley in the late 1800s. He digs a well for Adam Trask, a newcomer from Connecticut, shortly after the turn of the century. [...]