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- 2071: Elizabeth Bishop
- ... was shared was a set of friends, a series of real or imagined travels, books read, or sights seen. Bishop, besides being an award winning poet, was a prolific letter writer. Her friend and publisher, Robert Giroux, has assembled and edited over 500 of the letters Bishop wrote to her friends from around the world. Emily Dickonson's closest friends knew she wrote poetry, because she often included poems or lines ...
- 2072: Double
- ... date with Korman. I consider this Korman's last funny book. He was starting to get weaker even before this book was published (such as "No Coins, Please"), but he somehow managed a last gasp. --Robert McQueen One interesting thing about this book is that though it still shows Korman's weakness as a writer (it's another collection of vignettes made into a story), the vignette angle is less obvious ...
- 2073: Darkness Be My Friend
- Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out on a camping trip to a remote part of their ...
- 2074: Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caulfield
- ... and filled with evil. He knows now with a sickening certainty that he is powerless to stop both evil and maturation. As a matter of fact, it is "bad" to do so. Works Cited Coles, Robert. " Secular Days, Sacred Moments." America, Vol. 181, Issue 3, pp.8. French, Warren, "J.D. Salinger," Reference Guide to American Literature. St. James Press: 1994. P. 749-50. Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the ...
- 2075: Catcher In The Rye - Holden
- ... only thing he would have liked to be was a "catcher in the rye." He invented an illusion for himself of a strange fantasy. He stated that he would like to follow a poem by Robert Burns: "If a body catch a body comin' through the rye." He kept "picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody ...
- 2076: Catch 22 - Satire
- ... October 7, 1961) Kennard, Jean E. "Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity." MOSAIC IV/3 (University of Manitoba, 1971) Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real - The Confidence Man in American Literature." Oxford University Press (1982) Merrill, Robert. "The Structure and Meaning of Catch-22. Studies in American Fiction. 14.2 (1986) Seltzer, Leon F. "Milo's 'Culpable Innocence': Absurdity as Moral Insanity in 'Catch-22.'" Papers on Language and Literature. 15.3 ...
- 2077: Beowulf - Norse Mythology
- ... Davidson 67). Gods were always battling other gods and enemies; even from the creation story, gods were portrayed as violent. In this section of the creation story, Odin and his brothers were angry with the frost giants, and almost succeeded in destroying the entire race: "Odin and his two brothers quarreled with the old giant Ymir and after a great battle they killed him. When he fell, hacked to pieces, so ...
- 2078: Battle At Trafalgar
- ... the Indies. Rough seas and cold weather took its toll on the crews of the ships. Many were sick with scurvy and dysentery. To compound matters the French fleet was spotted off Cape Finisterre. Sir Robert Calder was forewarned of the French fleets' approach and was ready to take decisive action. The battle of the 15-20 should have been in favor of the Franco-Spainish fleet. Due to poor sails ...
- 2079: Frankenstein 4
- ... of his own self-interest. By characterising Prometheanism, Mary Shelley s Frankenstein is a critique of male egoism. Shelley represents male egoism through the assertiveness of her glory seeking characters. The attitude of her narrator, Robert Walton, is typified by his belief in his God given right to have ultimate success in Arctic explorations. He writes to his sister Margaret asking, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose? (Shelley ...
- 2080: A Man For All Seasons (A Man Cannot Serve Two Masters)
- ... will disclaim there hearts and presently they will have no hearts. God help the people whose Statesmen walk your road."(Bolt, 95). It is evident that in the play A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt the characters in focus, The Common Man serve's but one master himself. And Sir Thomas More who attempt to serve two masters is unable and in the end when he chooses to serve ...
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