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- 931: Cold War Book Review
- ... documentation of real stories which may be used to supplement some academic investigation. Drakulic s approach is unique since it blends analysis with the aspects of everyday life. Also, it reads like a piece of fiction; it is captivating. The literature of How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed harnesses Drakulic s passion with the communist struggle, and it leaves a memorable mark with its audience.
- 932: Boccaccio
- ... is The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. In The Decameron, Boccaccio describes lifestyles in the fourteenth century through 10 days of stories told by various characters. He covers all topics and even though he writes in fiction, the characters are similar to actual people of that period. In the "Eighth Day" of The Decameron, Boccaccio accurately depicts women's submissive role in the family, male dominance in society, and sexual promiscuity of ...
- 933: Bierce
- ... suffering and decay, to the ironic deaths of many of his characters, death was his only constant. "Death was Bierce's favorite character"(Discovering Edmund), and often considered his only character. "In all Bierce's fiction, there are no men or women who are interesting as men or women -- that is, by reason of their passions, their aspirations or their personalities. They figure only as the helpless butts of sadistic practical ...
- 934: An American Epidemic
- ... seems the only thing they have in common is an utter disregard for their own life and the lives of others. In the following accounts, taken straight from American headlines, harrowing events fit for blockbuster fiction prove that our country is becoming victim to a new criminal: youthful rage. In generations past, the high school rebel was the boy all the girls wanted and all the boys wanted to be. He ...
- 935: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... Mahfouz, Naguib. Sugar Street. Trans. William Maynard Hutchins et al. Cairo, AUC Press, 1992. · "Mahfouz, the Nobel Lauriate" http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/daily/dam/970809/1997080905.html · Mikhail, Mona N. Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris. New York: New York University Press, 1992. · "Naguib Mahfouz-Biased to Grassroots (People & Facts)" http://www.sis.gov.eg/egyptinf/culture/html/nmahfouz.htm · Naguib Mahfouz's interview to "Majallat al ...
- 936: Flowers For Algernon - Review
- The book, "Flowers for Algernon", was an exciting science fiction novel written by . The main characters of the story are the central character, Charlie, who is a mentally retarded individual involved in a remarkable experiment which increased his I.Q., Alice, a teacher at the ...
- 937: Guilt As Reparation For Sin In
- ... Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter. Harold Bloom, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Leary, Lewis. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983. Martin, Terence. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1965. Ragussis, Michael. Family Discourse and Fiction in The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter. Harold Bloom, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Shepherd, Robert D., Ed. The Scarlet Letter. St. Paul, Minnesota: EMC Corporation, 1998.
- 938: Great Gatsby 10
- ... York. Literary critics were reluctant to accord Fitzgerald full marks as a serious craftsman. His reputation as a drinker inspired the opinion that he was an irresponsible writer; yet he was a painstaking reviser whose fiction went through layers of drafts. The Fitzgeralds spent the winter of 1924-1925 in Rome, where he revised The Great Gatsby; they were en route to Paris when the novel was published in April. The ...
- 939: Grapes Of Wrath-the Journey Th
- ... 2 pp. Online. Internet. 30 April, 1999. Available http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin Books USA Inc, 1993. Timmerman, John. John Steinbeck s Fiction. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Wilson, Edmund. "The Noonday Press." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 13, Gale Research Co. Book Tower: Detroit 1973.
- 940: Grapes Of Wrath 7
- During the Dust Bowl, hundreds of thousands of southerners faced many hardships, which is the basis of the novel called The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinback wrote this fiction novel to portray the harsh conditions during the Dust Bowl. However, is the portrayal of the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath valid? When one considers the merit of this novel, one thinks, how ...
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