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- 861: The Chosen, By Chaim Potok
- By: Mary Foley The Chosen The Chosen, a fiction novel written in 1967 by Chaim Potok, is about two young Jewish boys and their friendship. It takes us along with them on their journey from adolescence to adulthood. They face many conflicts, and through ...
- 862: The Cast Of Amontillado
- ... attempts to revise the story and rehabilitate the life. Decadence and immorality, in the form of alcoholism, opium addiction, and his relationships with women, and prolific production, as a journalist, editor, poet, reviewer, critic, and fiction writer, have been emphasized as characterizing his brief life (Lent 3). Poes many writings were greatly affected by his problems in life and his experiences. One such short story is The Cask of Amontillado ...
- 863: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... former, the writer is an omniscient man who writes about the history of mankind on Mars and revises the Bible (Vonnegut, Sirens, 196). In the latter, the writer is Kilgore Trout, a relatively unknown science fiction author whose numerous stories get shelved with pornography. This is commonly seen as Vonnegut's fear of what he himself might become (Amer. Lit. Bio., 305). In the preface of a different book, Vonnegut states ...
- 864: Commanders Of The Army Of The
- ... these men did and did not do and how their actions impacted the future of the United States of America. Why did I select this book? After factoring in our preset guidelines of a non-fiction book with at least 250 pages and constraining that to the period of exploration through reconstruction I decided that what I would find the most interesting would be something from the Civil War. When visiting ...
- 865: Brave New World
- ... societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his colleagues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his ...
- 866: 20,000 Leagues
- ... ago, I decided to read Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, by Jules Verne. I figured that because it was so well known it must be an extremely interesting book. In addition, it was science fiction, the one area that I was always interested. My assumption was only partially correct, for I only was to a degree interested in the piece of writing. When Jules Verne was writing this book, he ...
- 867: Standing In The Light
- ... own murdered ones. The author told the story through the perspective of Catharine. People like to read books like this. 4. I absolutely enjoyed this book. I really liked the fact that it was historical fiction, because that is my favorite. I also liked that Catharine told the story through her own perspective. I could better understand her situation. I learned a lot from this book. I learned a great deal ...
- 868: The Hanmaids Tale
- ... accordance to the roles they play in this fictitious society. We must consider ourselves very fortunate for not living in a real-life Gilead. Nevertheless, the genre of this novel is not fantasy but rather fiction and thus implying this can actually occur. We must then recognize the problems that Atwood was trying to point out. The relationship between Gilead and our society is the fact that gender does play a ...
- 869: The Best Little Girl In The Wo
- ... of The Best Little Girl in the World The author of my book is Steven Levenkron. Warner Books published this book in September of 1978 in New York, NY. The genre of my book is fiction with suspense. The Best Little Girl in the World could be based on a true story, but it is not completely true to life. It would fall under the suspense category because the reader does ...
- 870: The Riddle Of St. Leonards
- ... at writing were poems. She moved into a journalistic stage which lasted all throughout graduate school. It was after leaving graduate school that she focused on creative writing. She wrote short stories, mostly about science fiction, but one story was inspired by her graduate work in medieval studies. She thought her book would never get published, but then she found a job as an editor of research publications at the University ...
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