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- 231: The Awakening
- ... on Chopin’s writing. "Maupassant was born in Châteaude de Miromesnil, Normandy" (Encarta). He received his education at Yvetot and Rauen and there joined a literary team where he was trained as a writer of fiction by Flaubert, another well know French author (Encarta). He, like Chopin, wrote many short stories, for which he is remembered the most (Encarta). Like Chopin, Maupassant’s ideas were looked at as "immoral" and "mature ... de. "The Awakening." Moiron and Short Stories. New York: The Pearson Publishing Co., 1910. 253-59. Skaggs, Peggy. Kate Chopin. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. Toth, Emily. Kate Chopin: A life of the Wolff, Cynthia. "The Fiction of Limits: ‘Désirée’s Baby.’" Modern Critical Views: Kate Chopin. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philidelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. 35-42
- 232: The Life and Work of Chaim Potok
- ... 1975. Then he wrote The Book of Lights in 1981. In 1985 he wrote Davita's Harp. In 1990 he wrote The Gift of Asher Lev which won him The National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Which brings us to his most recent novel I Am the Clay from 1992. Chaim Potok also wrote a couple of children's books The Tree of Here and The Sky of Now in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Chaim only published one Non-Fiction book called Wanderings in 1978 about the history of the Jewish people. He wrote three plays one of them, Out of the Depths, is a two act play that premiered in 1990. The other two ...
- 233: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... the between 1873 and 1880 he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans. Maupassant work outshone all the others by far. This is Maupassant became recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French authors of his time. In the years 1984 through 1985 he produced a great number of high caliber fiction. Most of these stories dealt with his experiences as a child in Normandy. During 1886-1887 Maupassant began to show signs of mental illness, probably the results of venereal disease. A sea voyage to improve ...
- 234: Great Gatsby 3
- ... remember how, as readers, we respond to the narrator's perspective, especially when that voice belongs to a character who, like Nick, is an active participant in the story. When we read any work of fiction, no matter how realistic or fabulous, as readers, we undergo a "suspension of disbelief". The fictional world creates a new set of boundaries, making possible or credible events and reactions that might not commonly occur ... in Nick because he is very much a fallible storyteller. When an author unsettles an accepted convention in the art of storytelling by creating a narrator like Nick, it draws attention to the story as fiction, as artifice. Ironically, in doing this, he has created in Nick a figure who more closely resembles an average human being and thus has heightened the realism of the novel. ************************* When F. Scott Fitzgerald turns ...
- 235: The Albanian Virgin
- ... a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life in the short stories, as the stories are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories. Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being ... writers could write in such a way that makes the reader feel like they are the narrator in a way. Most of her stories have often been compared to be more near autobiography than to fiction by some critics. It is true that much of her stories in some way or another do relate to her life, being that of her childhood or that of her later years. The point of ...
- 236: Jules Verne
- ... is to make myself useful…." He was very active in his life. 1863 marked the beginning of a new genre in literature. "Five Weeks in a Balloon" appeared in bookstores. It became the first science-fiction book published. The publisher, Jules Hetzel, and Verne had started a friendship that was to last for life when Hetzel accepted "Five Weeks in a Balloon". "Five Weeks in a Balloon" became an instant success ... family were all with him as he lived his last day of his life. 4 days later, he was buried at La Madeleine in Amiens. With the burial, the world lost the "Father of Science Fiction", a great writer and a prophet.
- 237: The Albanian Virgin
- ... a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life in the short stories, as the stories are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories. Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being ... writers could write in such a way that makes the reader feel like they are the narrator in a way. Most of her stories have often been compared to be more near autobiography than to fiction by some critics. It is true that much of her stories in some way or another do relate to her life, being that of her childhood or that of her later years. The point of ...
- 238: The Year 2000 Bug
- ... wondering if you need to do something to help your PC make the transition into the year 2000. This site is constructed to help you answer that question, and to help you sort fact from fiction. The way that your computer system will be affected by the year 2000 will depend not only on the equipment and software that you have, but on the way you use your PC and rely ... problem for your specific computer system, there is no reason for alarm. Many issues will be more annoying than serious. The more you become informed, the more prepared you will be to sort fact from fiction. Information and preparation are two wonderful antidotes to alarm and fear. John Glenn, two-time American space traveler, offered this advice about worry and the future advice that can be meaningfully applied to the year ...
- 239: The Stars Are My Destination
- ... novel, the generation back then was not ready for his graphic content during his day writing for television. To write was his own version of psychotherapy. So, out of frustration, I went back to science fiction in order to keep my cool. 2 And so he wrote and wrote and wrote. He figured that writing sci-fi would comfort him the most because his creativity had no limits in that realm ... could ..do anything we damn well please. 3 Bibliography 1. Bester, Alfred, Alfred Bester, Interview by Charles Platt in Dream Makers (New York: Berkeley Books, 1980), p.96 2. Bester, Alfred, My Affair with Science Fiction, Hell s Cartographers (New York: Harper & Row, 1995), p.57 3. Rawdon, Michael, Bookreviews . Online posting. Reviewed Dec. 1996 Available: www.spies.com/~Rawdon/books/sf/bester.html
- 240: Stephen King
- Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known ... the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, "He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced"(Beaham 22). In many of Lovecraft’s writings he always used his present surroundings as the back drop of his stories. King has followed in his footsteps with the fictional ...
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