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The Author's PrefaceTHE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
Idle reader: thou mayest believe me without any oath that I would this book, as it is the child of my brain, were the fairest, gayest, and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could not counteract Nature's law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, could ...
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Franklins Preface To Poor RichIn Benjamin Franklin’s preface to Poor Richard Improved, "The Way to Wealth", Franklin offers many adages to help the reader conserve money. Many of these sayings are common even today. The title of this preface makes since because the title, "The Way to Wealth", can be interpreted as The ...
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Franklins Preface To Poor RichIn Benjamin Franklin’s preface to Poor Richard Improved, "The Way to Wealth", Franklin offers many adages to help the reader conserve money. Many of these sayings are common even today. The title of this preface makes since because the title, "The Way to Wealth", can be interpreted as The ...
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Wordsworth And ColeridgePoems in the Romantic Period can be referred to as incidents of life. They involve every aspect of life such as love, guilt, sinning, and even death. Specifically William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge have written many poems that have dealt with great emotions and imagination but they do not ...
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Poems Of William Wordsworth And Samuel ColeridgePoems in the Romantic Period can be referred to as incidents of life. They involve every aspect of life such as love, guilt, sinning, and even death. Specifically William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge have written many poems that have dealt with great emotions and imagination but they do not ...
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Revelation", n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing."1 The book of , the only apocalypse among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament, has always occupied a marginal role within the field of Biblical ...
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Nature Of Poetry By WordsworthAs far as the nature of poetry is concerned, as per Wordsworth "poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Poetry has its origin in the internal feelings of the poet. In 19th century, when Wordsworth was a writer, industry and urbanity were taking place in England. Wordsworth ...
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Hawthornes Life Versus Life InHawthorne’s Life Versus Life In The Scarlet Letter
To understand a book the reader must understand the background and lifetime of
the author. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s childhood was one in which he was brought up by a
conservative family in a Puritan Community. He was not totally sold on ...
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Orwell And Marx³Every line I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism," quotes George Orwell in the preface to the 1956 Signet Classic edition of Animal Farm. The edition, which sold several millions copies, however, omitted the rest of the sentence: "and for ...
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Lewis' "Surprise By Joy": AnalysisI. Form and Content
Long-time friend and literary executor of the Lewis estate, Owen Barfield
has suggested that there were, in fact, three "C. S. Lewises." That is to
say, there were three different vocations that Lewis fulfilled--and
fulfilled successfully--in his lifetime. There was, first, ...
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Mark Twain's Speeches1906
by Mark Twain
PREFACE.
FROM THE PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION OF
"MARK TWAIN'S SKETCHES."
If I were to sell the reader a barrel of molasses, and he, instead of
sweetening his substantial dinner with the same at judicious intervals,
should eat the entire barrel ...
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A Man For All Seasons - 16th CenturyThe 16th century was a time of political upheaval, a time of conflict and corruption … and a time of heroes? All these elements are visibly present in Bolt’s book, A Man for All Seasons. As I was reading this story I was thinking that it could probably apply to our day and age but that begged the ...
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Analysis Of The Poems Of William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth is widely considered one of the most influential
English romantic poets. In the preface of his book, Lyrical Ballads,
published in 1798, Wordsworth declared that poetry should contain language
really used by men. This idea, and many of his others, challenged the ...
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Don Quixote, written around four hundred years ago, has endured the test of time to become one of the world’s finest examples of literature; one of the first true novels ever written. It’s uncommonness lies in the fact that it encompasses many different aspects of writing that spans the spectrum. ...
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A Man For All Seasons - 16th CThe 16th century was a time of political upheaval, a time of conflict and corruption … and a time of heroes? All these elements are visibly present in Bolt’s book, A Man for All Seasons. As I was reading this story I was thinking that it could probably apply to our day and age but that begged the ...
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FrankensteinFrankenstein opens with a preface, signed by Mary Shelley but commonly supposed to have been written by her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It states that the novel was begun during a summer vacation in the Swiss Alps, when unseasonably rainy weather and nights spent reading German ghost stories ...
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The Picture Of Dorain GrayThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After conversing with cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian makes a wish which dreadfully ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontErich Maria Remarque’s , a novel
set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on
one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque’s
protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a
hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More ...
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Animal Farm As Animal SatireThis study aims to determine that George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political satire which was written to criticise totalitarian regimes and particularly Stalin's practices in Russia. In order to provide background information that would reveal causes led Orwell to write Animal Farm, Chapter one is ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontFor it is no easy undertaking, I say,
to describe the bottom of the Universe;
nor is it for tongues that only babble child's play.
(The Inferno, XXXII, 7-9.)
Erich Maria Remarque's , a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his ...
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