|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 861 - 870 of 1220 matching essays
- 861: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Poe s writing of death would have been nothing would it have not been for his vivid imagery and description. He manipulated the scenery to become surroundings that are dangerous to the mind. From Gothic fiction of the English eighteenth century, Poe took the imagery of terror. He found the blighted, oppressive country side and the haunted castle.33 Poe is undoubtedly a true American genius. His fixation on death only ...
- 862: Cooper, James F.
- ... loves runs off with a new, young heiress. Though the characters are like lifeless cardboard, Precaution's theme dimly foreshadows what is to come next. If a reader was to read only Cooper's early fiction and perhaps a volume of his social criticism, they are likely to go away with the feeling of Cooper having several mistaken notions. Not many would see the mixture of adventure and romance and novels ...
- 863: Christopher Marlowe
- ... of printing during the Renaissance greatly increased the number of book available. In the fourteenth century, Europeans learned from Arabs who had previously learned from the Chinese how to make paper from rags and wood pulp. The fifteenth century invention of movable type by Johann Gutenberg also shaped the way literature had previously been written. Gutenberg developed a type of metal that could be used to make movable type. In 1455 ...
- 864: Australia
- ... railway, and educational center; fishing; coal processing; steel manufacturing; copper refining; brick making; food processing; St. Michael's Cathedral. Hobart (194,700). Capital of Tasmania; industrial, trade, and communications hub; textiles; chemicals; cement; confectionery; paper pulp; metal products; fruit and jam processing; Wrest Point Casino; St. George's Church; Theatre Royal; Anglesea Barracks (see Hobart, Australia). ECONOMY Chief Agricultural Products. Crops--wheat, sugarcane, cotton, barley, grapes, potatoes, apples, bananas, oats, tomatoes ...
- 865: Albert Camus
- ... the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time; in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. His ...
- 866: Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois July 21, 1899. Hemingway is known to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He has written more than one hundred short fiction stories, many of them to be well known around the world. Some of these short stories had just as powerful an impact as his novels. As a young man, Hemingway left from his hometown to ...
- 867: Robert Penn Warren
- ... penned with depression and a lack of new material. His period of dissolution did not end until his second marriage to Eleanor Clark in 1952. Warren received many honors including a Pulitzer Prize for the fiction All the King's Men, 1946: This novel illustrating a powerful Southern governor resembling the Louisiana politician Huey P. Long. . He also produced his complex World Enough and Time, based on the Kentucky hanging of ...
- 868: Bram Stoker
- ... same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again ...
- 869: Bill Gates
- ... Taligent and OS/2's strategy. Right now Bill Gates is building a multi million dollar water front home outside of Seattle, equipped with all the technological luxuries that a few years ago only science fiction writers could dream up, for he and his wife, Melinda French. He has a 2.5 million dollar book deal that is selling now(Lyall 20). What is in Gates future? He loves his work ...
- 870: Roald Dahl
- By: Ryan Morgan Everything in Dahl's books includes either scary fiction or adventure. In 1973 Dahl was awarded for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The book in its time was very popular for children. Between 1980 and 1990, over eleven million of his children's books ...
Search results 861 - 870 of 1220 matching essays
|
