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Modernistic Aspects In Kiplings A Wayside Comedy
1,010 wordsRudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was sent to England to go to school and returned to India in 1882. He worked as a journalist in Lahore for the Civil and Military Gazette. He also worked on Pioneer in Allahabad later (web). Kipling returned to England in 1889 and met his wife, Carrie Balestier. They moved to the United States in the mid- 1890 s where he wrote many of his poems. They returned to England in 1896 (web). Kipling began to be regarded as? the People?...
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Advancement Of Science Mustapha Mond
1,722 wordsAuthor: Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, and died in 1963. He first went to Eton, and then to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories in the twenties and thirties. Besides short stories he also wrote essays and novels, like 'Brave New World'. The first novels he wrote were comments on the young generation, with no goal whatsoever, that lived after WW I. Before he became the writer as we know him, he worked as a journalist and a critic of drama. In his books,...
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House Of Usher Cask Of Amontillado
1,524 wordsEdgar Allan Poe is famous for his short stories and specifically the manner in which he was able to draw in the audience and totally hold their focus. Interestingly, it seems that all of his stories have a specific location that is defined by a specific space and time. This locale helps to initially draw in the reader to the world that Poe presents as his launching ground for the story. His mastery of the physical world of his tales is amazing, as is the manner in which he creates these realms. ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Allan Poe Was Born
1,504 wordsEDGAR ALLAN POE Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. To understand the literary contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, one must look at his early life, his literary life, and a summary of two o...
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Collection Of Short Stories Farewell To Arms
1,179 wordsErnest Hemingway is revered by some as one of the best writers in American history. He had his share of problems and successes and made a deep impact in our literature. Hemingway was an important literary figure and writer, whose childhood experiences and significant events in his adult years are reflected in his works in a variety of ways. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. He grew up near Chicago, in Oak Park, Illinois, in a well off, middle-class family. He had four siblings named Ma...
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Ray Short Story The Picinic
456 wordsRay Bradbury is one of the most well known science fiction writers of the twentieth century. His stories have been used on television, radio, theater, film, newspapers, and have been published in every major American magazine (Bradbury 205). His style of writing as seen in Th Martian Chronicals leaves many unanswered questions so the readers's imagination is left to wander at all the possibilities. It is this magnetic quality in his writings that makes the reader not want to put the book down. B...
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Edgar Allen Poe First Person Narrative
1,615 wordsAspects and Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado" and the "Black Cat" What makes literary works considered great, and furthermore what makes the greatness of the work withstand the test of time? The answer to both of these questions is the same. Greatness of literary work that withstands the test of time is due to the fact that their meaning is still seen and identified with by people today, and still evokes interest in the reader, even though these works were written decades,...
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Puritan Themes In Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing
842 wordsAmerican novelist and nineteenth century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was the first writer to apply artistic judgment to Puritan society. There were many transcendentalists during Hawthorne's time period, but his works showed little optimism and self-confidence. Most of his works were written from a Puritan preoccupation (Compton's Encyclopedia, 83). With a series of short stories and novels that brought back the life of New England's Puritan past, Hawthorne achieved one of the most distinguished ...
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Life Of Arthur Conan Doyle
1,198 words... Doyle met a new student by the name of George Budd. George Budd was a key part in Doyle's literary career, because he was amazed at Budd's extraordinary thinking while they were having conversations. Doyle explains that Budd could, 'at a moments notice take up any subject with intense enthusiasm, weave the most amazing theories, carry his listeners away with him until they were gasping with excitement, drop the subject suddenly, take up another, and repeat the process. ' (Pearson 19) He then...
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Big Two Hearted River Part Ii
1,185 wordsSudden, Unexpected Interjection 'It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ' At one point in his short story, 'Big Two-Hearted River: Part II', Hemingway's character Nick speaks in the first person. Why he adopts, for one line only, the first person voice is an interesting question, without an easy answer. Sherwood Anderson does the same thing in the introduction to his work, Winesburg, Ohio. The first piece, called 'The Book of the Grotesque', is told from the f...
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Country Lovers Vs A Meeting In The Dark
2,562 words"Country Lovers" vs. "A Meeting in the Dark" (1) Before the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991, the book publishing practice in this country was based on one simple principle only the books of ideologically committed authors would be allowed for public release. No matter how untalented a particular writer might have been, his literary creations would still be published by millions of copies, for as long as they contained panegyrics to the ideas of workers solidarity, racial equality, dictatorship ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Allan Poe Was Born
1,496 wordsEdgar Allan Poe Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. To understand the literary contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, one must look at his early life, his literary life, and a summary of two o...
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Sun Also Rises World War Ii
1,930 wordsErnest Hemingway The style and expression of Ernest Hemingway has dazzled readers for over seventy years. He has produced works such as A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, and In Our Time, which are individually inspired by Hemingway? s attempt to maintain sanity in an insane world. His novels and short stories span the horizon from war to romance and from nature to friendship. Hemingway? s contribution to the modern literary movement is original, thought provoking, ...
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Literature Resource Center Short Stories
1,093 wordsSome Sugars Symphony Sugar? s Symphony Some have coined music as a universal language. Perhaps, the complexity of the notes, the consistency of the beat, the array of instruments, or the flow of lyricism offers this universal appeal. Nevertheless, the unique composition of each song enables it to sustain its own magnetic aura, much like the musical implication in Lewis Nordan? s Music of the Swamp. Though, many argue Nordan? s piece suggests merely a collection of short stories rather than a nov...
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Good Country People Bible Salesman
873 wordsIn Flannery Oconnor The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Good Country People, and A Good Man Is Hard To Find, she explores the consequences of the combination of hypocrisy, gullibility in social contacts, and the role of being raised at mothers knee. Reared a strict Roman Catholic and writing in the Bible Belt South OConnor encountered those character flaws first hand. The repetitive hypocrisy displayed in these three short stories is portrayed by only the men suggesting that OConnor has certain i...
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Mental Illness Secret Sharer
1,161 words&# 65279; Isolation as a Cause of Mental Illness Mental illness is a serious problem. Mental illness is a term used for a group of disorders causing severe disturbances in thinking, feeling and relating. The result is a diminished capacity for coping with ordinary demands of life. Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. In the short stories The Bet, Pauls Case, Silent Snow, Secret Snow the authors use isolation as a cause for mental illness....
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Catcher In The Rye Uncle Wiggily
1,575 wordsSalinger's children, as they appear in various novels and short stories, portray the ills of modern society through their innocence and spirituality, their honesty and sometimes, erratic behaviour. They are often as fragile and odd as they are intelligent and endearing, and the obscenities of life tend to overwhelm them at times. My intention is to show how Salinger uses the same technique over and over in his work. That is the use of children with all the innocence and idealism of youth, to dep...
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San Francisco Bay Jack London
1,613 wordsJack London fought his way up out of the factories and waterfront dives of West Oakland to become the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day. He wrote passionately and prolifically about the great questions of life and death, the struggle to survive with dignity and integrity, and he wove these elemental ideas into stories of high adventure based on his own firsthand experiences at sea, or in Alaska, or in the fields and factories of California. As a result, his wr...
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Anthony Burgess Dream
2,138 wordsJohn Collier, a contemporary English author, was born in London, England on May 3, 1901 and lived his last years in Palisades, California where he died of a stroke on April 6, 1980. Collier was a writer of the 1920? s era, educated in post-Victorian England, and according to Anthony Burgess in the London Times. He was known for literary allusiveness and quiet wit (Contemporary Authors 111). A collection of his most memorable works was published in 1972 entitled The John Collier Reader. His liter...
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H G Wells Civilized Behavior
2,508 wordsKurt Vonnegut Served as a sensitive cell in the organism of American Society during the 1960 s. His work alerted the public about the absurdity of modern warfare and an increasingly mechanized and impersonal society in which humans were essentially worthless and degenerated. The satirical tone and sardonic humor allowed people to read his works and laugh at their own misfortune. Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, where he was reared. His father was an architect, as his gran...
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