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- 1181: Carl Jung
- ... and related fields are indebted to Jung, who first gave them their direction. The book is also interesting, because of its challenging nature. I suppose that not all people would enjoy reading such type of literature, since many people in this world are sensational types. I certainly did enjoy it, and have found out some things about myself in the process. The book is very well written. It has many good ...
- 1182: Oscar Wilde
- ... political reasons; others say he saw it performed there but that it ran unsuccessfully. Throughout that year he lectured in 70 American cities as well as Ontario and Quebec in Canada on the arts and literature. The tour was an unmitigated smash and Wilde returned to London in 1883 in triumph and richer by several thousand pounds. By the time he returned from America he had already tired of being the ...
- 1183: Kublai Khan
- ... Asia and also in Europe. The court at Cambulac attracted an international group of courageous men. One of these men included the famous Venetian Marco Polo. Kublai Khan did much to encourage the advancement of literature and arts as well. He was a devout Buddhist. Kublai also made Buddhism the state religion during his dynasty. Although Buddhism was the main religion, during his reign many other religions evolved and were tolerated ...
- 1184: Albert Einstein: His Life
- ... uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja, and they could often be ...
- 1185: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for review. After a couple of weeks and a couple rounds around the department, the English professors were stunned. They realized that they had a real writer on their hands. >From then until he ...
- 1186: Robert Mannyng of Brunne
- ... known as epiphanies, meant to show the English the errors of their sinful life. Its intimate descriptions of daily life provides a fine social history of fourteenth-century England - it is far more history than literature. On the other hand, The Chronicle of England is an epic bildungsroman largely based on fiction and myth, and uses the works of Geoffrey Crayon, Franklin of Avalon, Geoffrey Monmouth, Wace, Shakespeare,Pierre Langtoft and ...
- 1187: Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms
- Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is quite possibly the greatest satirist in the history of English literature, and is without question the most controversial. Infuriated by the moral degradation of society in the eighteenth century, Swift wrote a plethora of bitter pieces attacking man's excessive pride, and the critical reception has ...
- 1188: The Work of John Collier
- ... dominant plot that is worked upon in these four short stories that were written by John Collier. Bibliography Contemporary Company,1983. Vol. 10. Collier, John. "The Chaser." 75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature. Ed. Roger B. Goodman. New York: Bantam Books, 1961. Collier, John. The Touch of Nutmeg and More Unlikely Stories. Ed. Clifton Fadiman, New York: The Press of the Reader's Club, 1943.
- 1189: Thomas Jefferson
- ... all important writing assignments were entrusted to Jefferson. When Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia in June, 1775, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he already possessed, as John Adams remarked, "a reputation for literature, science, and a happy talent of composition" (Koch and Peden 21). When he returned in 1776, he was appointed to the five-man committee, including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, which was charged with the ...
- 1190: Malcolm X
- ... 21, 1965, by assassins thought to be connected with the Black Muslims. The AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (dictated to Alex Haley, 1965) publicized Malcolm's ideas and became something of a classic in contemporary American literature. Bibliography Breitman, George. The Last Year of Malcolm X (1967). Clarke, John H. ed., Malcolm X (1969). Goldman, Peter. The Death and Life of Malcolm X (1973). Malcolm X, Malcolm X: The Last Speeches, ed ...
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