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Short Story Fiction Essays and Term Papers
Mrs DallowayWhile writing and revising Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf was corresponding with E.M. Forster, who was working on A Passage to India. In September of 1921, she records in her diary: ``A letter from Morgan [Forster] this morning. He seems as critical of the East as of Bloomsbury, & sits dressed in a ...
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Slaughterhouse FiveKurt Vonnegut as an author has defied the normal norms of storytelling and has been very successful at it. The use of fragmentation in has been a weapon he has used to good effect. It starts of as being confusing and chaotic but as it goes on you come to terms with it understanding it ...
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1984: The Plot"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." This is the slogan of the Ministry of Truth, a branch of the totalitarian government in post-war London. The figurehead of this government is Big Brother, who employs a vast army of informers called the Thought Police who watch and listen ...
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Stephen CraneOne of ’s greatest short fiction stories is “The Open Boat” by views fate like it is inevitable, and sure it is. Who can get away from their destiny, their fate? No one can get away from it. This statement is true about the sailors in the boat also. First, their fate starts when their boat ...
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France And England In A Tale Of Two Cities - The French Revolution
In the eighteen-fifties, Charles Dickens was concerned that social problems in England, particularly those relating to the condition of the poor, might provoke a mass reaction on the scale of the French Revolution. In a letter written in 1855, for example, he ...
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Book Review: NemesisName of Book: Nemesis
was three years of age, his family immigrated to the United States and settled
in Brooklyn, New York. Asimov turned to full time writing in 1958. This
accomplished writer is best known for his novels dealing with science fiction.
However, his works extend to other subjects. ...
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The Old Gringo, By Carlos FuenThe Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes
The Old Gringo is a fiction novel written by one of Latin America’s most renowned and eloquent authors, Carlos Fuentes. Filled with war, adventure, love and more, this novel takes you back to the Mexican revolution fought in 1912. This contemporary fiction is ...
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A Room Of One’s Own: Cranial SpelunkingThroughout time, philosophers and psychologists alike have aspired to map out and/or understand the workings of the human mind. Despite the many valid efforts, the collective body of information confuses more than it clarifies. In order to get a strait forward answer on the issue, one need only ...
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The Stars Are My Destination“...The key turned in the lock of his soul and the door was opened. What emerged expunged the Common Man forever.”
The Stars My Destination ~pg 22
Gully Foyle. Uneducated. No skills. No merits. No recommendations. A short
description given by the author Alfred Bester of his main ...
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Fahrenheit 451: A World With No BooksRay Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fiction
thriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just some
books, but all books. An entire distorted culture and civilization where all
books are prohibited. And the penalty for being caught with books is that ...
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In Cold Blood - Truman Capote2. Author plus biographical background information:
Truman Capote, one of America’s most famous writers was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non- fiction stories. (for example this book, “ In cold blood”) short stories, novels, travel writing, ...
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Biography Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Kurt Vonnegut Jr., was born November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis,
Indiana(Dictionary of Literary Biography). Kurt is often known for his
science-fiction writing. He often uses space travel and technology within
his novels (World Book Encyclopedia). Vonnegut attended Cornell
University from 1940 ...
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Famous Author- Samuel SelvonSamuel Selvon, author of novels, plays, film, television, and radio, was born in 1923 in South Trinidad to an Indian father and an Indian/Scottish mother. He grew up in Trinidad's multi-racial society and graduated from San Fernando's Naparima College in 1938.
Selvon began writing fiction and ...
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The Grapes Of Wrath: Rose Of Sharon And The Starving ManMa's eyes passed Rose of Sharon's eyes, and then came back to them. And the two women looked deep into each other. The girl's breath came short of gasping.
Ma smiled. "I knowed you would. I knowed!" (Chapter 30)
Nothing in The Grapes of Wrath outraged readers as did the scene in Chapter 30 ...
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Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-HoOn May 29, 1945, twenty-one days after the Germans had surrendered to the victorious Allied armies, a father in Indianapolis received a letter from his son who had been listed as "missing in action" following the Battle of the Bulge. The youngster, an advance scout with the 106th Infantry ...
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DuneThis book all started with the family Atreides landing on plant Arrakis,
commonly known as . The planet was the centre of the universe due to
its immense amounts of spice. This spice is greatly needed for all planets as
fuel and for raw materials. The family Atreides were asked by Emperor ...
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Joseph Conrad“. . . No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone. . . .,”(Conrad 71). With this thought consuming verse, along ...
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Barn BurningBarn Burning
Character List
Colonel Sartoris Snopes (Sarty) - A ten-year-old boy and the story's protagonist. Small and wiry, with wild, gray eyes and uncombed brown hair, Sartoris wears patched and faded jeans that are too small for him. He has inherited his innocence and morality from his ...
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The House Of Seven Gables: SymbolismAmerican Literature reflects life, and the struggles that we face during
our existence. The great authors of our time incorporate life's problems into
their literature directly and indirectly. The stories themselves bluntly tell
us a story, however, an author also uses symbols to relay to us ...
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