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- 551: Lucas: King of Film
- ... and films we all know and love. He has reached out to all generations; the elder with memories in American Graffiti, and the young and young at heart with Star Wars, and the real science fiction fans with his perfected version of THX-1138. He has impacted other filmmakers and audiences alike. Traces of his greatness reach out through our world. Works Cited Champlin, Charles. George Lucas: The Creative Impulse. New ...
- 552: Willa Sibert Cather and His Works
- ... the ranch and into the village, where she attended Red Cloud High School. She attended the University of Nebraska, and graduated in 1895. As a student she worked as a journalist, copy editor, critic, and fiction writer. When she graduated, she moved back east to Pennsylvania. It was here where she worked on a Pittsburgh newspaper named The Library. She also taught English in a high school. Willa published "The Dance ...
- 553: Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
- ... on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 5. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 6. Pickering, James. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. NJ:Prentice Hall, 1995. 7. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
- 554: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... state. He wandered from one city to another, drifted back to Richmond and on to Baltimore, where he died. Poe was the originator of the American short story. There had been other short works of fiction, but Poe perfected the short story as an art form. Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and Conan Doyle were influenced by him, particularly in their early writing, before each had found his individual style. Poe led ...
- 555: Nevil Shute
- ... in the United States, as The Mysterious Aviator in 1928 (Kunitz and Haycraft 1034). During this time he began to write under the Christian name Nevil Shute, because he feared that his reputation as a fiction writer would hinder his engineering career (Internet). Through the next many years, up until World War II, Nevil Shute published many more books. Shute then moved to Australia in 1949, to concentrate on his writings ...
- 556: Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
- ... fellow cadets helped to contribute the funds for publication of his poems. Poe later on took up residencecy in Baltimore with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter, Virginia. He later on started writing fiction aas a way to support himself. In 1832 the Philadelphia Saturday Courier pulished five of his stories. Poe his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond in 1835 and became editor of the Southern LiteraryMessenger and ...
- 557: The Works of Graham Greene
- ... may not be entirely true in Greene*s other work, it is certainly true in his novel, The Quiet American. The Quiet American is judged as one of Greene*s "entertainments" that include comedies, spy fiction, and thrillers that take place in foreign countries (Introduction). According to World Literature Critics editor, James P. Draper, The Quiet American is set in South Vietnam and anticipates U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict ...
- 558: Charles Dickens: Biography
- ... keen observer of life and had a great understanding of humanity, especially of young people. The warmth and humor of his personality appeared in all of his works. Perhaps in no other large body of fiction does the reader receive so strong and agreeable impression of the person behind the story. Endnotes 1. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The Last of The Great Men, American Book-Stratford Press, NY., 1942 pg ...
- 559: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... the Star and moved back to Paris to launch his career as a writer. In an examination of Hemmingway's writings is very much akin to a study of his life. Most all of his fiction was based upon or expanded from events that he himself had experienced, or at least that which he knew completely, inside and out. Being the perfectionist that he was, Ernest did not feel justified in ...
- 560: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... away- If ‘twas a Dream- made solid - just The Heaven to confirm- Or if Myself were dreamed of Her- The power to presume- With Him remain- who unto Me- Gave- even as to All- A fiction superseding Faith- By so much-as ‘twas real- (Poetry of Emily Dickinson 1996,3) Benfey says that this poem is " elegant and has a mild eroticism that reaches the level of great art in Emily ...
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