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- 991: Out Of The Silent Planet By C.
- ... and it's not a book to be taken lightly. This is a book with a lot of inner meaning. It talks about the dark side of humanity. Filled with comedy, action, suspense and science fiction. But though it's not a very long book, it really doesn't need to be. The plot was uncertain at times but overall was detailed enough to present the over all struggle of one ...
- 992: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- ... want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us.... " Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a work of non-fiction, attempts to tell the story of the American West from the perspective of the indigenous population, The American Indian. That in itself makes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee an important work of literature as ...
- 993: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... in paperback by Popular Library. In April, 1961, Miss Lee was awarded the Alabama Library Association Award. In May, 1961, she was the first woman since 1942 to win the $500.00 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition to its acclaim in the United States, To Kill A Mockingbird has received awards in foreign countries. For example, in Britain it was selected British Book Society Top Book of the Year. It ...
- 994: Madame Bovary: The Tragic Love
- ... one which contains an important and moving plot. In addition, it provides a standard against which to compare the works of writers to follow. It is nearly impossible to truly understand modern European and American fiction without reading, Madame Bovary. Charles Bovary, the only son of a middle-class family, became a doctor and set up his practice in a rural village. He then married a women who was quite older ...
- 995: The Awakening
- Kate Chopin's The Awakening is a work of fiction that tells the story of Edna Pontellier, Southern wife and mother. This book presents the reader with many tough questions and few answers. It is not hard to imagine why this book was banished for ...
- 996: Calculated Captivity
- ... has made the reader feel helpless, and although Alex was betrayed by his friends, there is a feeling of relief and satisfaction when Alex is thrown into the state jail. While the text itself is fiction, the subject of the content is real. Law’s are to be respected. It is for the good of the people, that governments create just and non-violent communities. Past and present day societies strive ...
- 997: Comparison Of Augustus And Beo
- ... attempt of their success. People in Beowulf’s society saw him to be a warrior that was looked up to and they described him to be a great success. Beowulf was more of a non-fiction creature that was thought of as a hero. Augustus was more of the ideal man that everyone wanted to be. People in Beowulf’s society knew that they could never have the strength to be ...
- 998: Canterbury Tales The Knights T
- ... is it going to be for good or bad. Ike deliberate and disciplined mature of the woods… represents his dedicated struggle for self-discovery and self-knowledge .The forest, as it is in Hawthorne's fiction, is symbolic of the unconscious self. Ike must wander through the maze; he must search the labyrinths of his own deepest self in order to discover who he is and learn the essential truths of ...
- 999: Parental Conflict In Turtle Mo
- ... Turtle Moon For the average person, occasional inter-personal conflicts are a fact of life. Nowhere do these conflicts manifest themselves with greater tension than in the parent-adolescent relationship. Through their works, writers of fiction illuminate the sources of strain common to parent-child interactions. In the novel Turtle Moon, Alice Hoffman exemplifies this conflict in the relationship between Keith Rosen and his mother Lucy. There are several factors that ...
- 1000: A Review Of To Kill A Mockingb
- ... B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia & New York. This is the only book that Harper Lee has ever written. It is also one of the best-loved novels in American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Lee is a very private person who doesn’t grant interviews, although her literary agent says she divides her time between her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama and New York. She also enjoys reading, and her ...
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