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Hace 1 día · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
Hace 1 día · Thackeray, who illustrated his own novels with sketches, was impressed by the Rotunda and its four wall-size paintings of scenes of the American Revolution: The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and The Resignation of General Washington.
Hace 2 días · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
Hace 2 días · Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and ...
Hace 1 día · Bock’s novel is a working-class tale, with no attempt to gloss over the hardship experienced by the people involved. Many of the earlier sections focus on the poverty of Morel’s childhood, the quasi-tenements the workers live in and the threat of illness and infant mortality. Even for those that survive to adulthood, there’s the risky ...
Hace 4 días · Catherine the Great | Reviews in History. Book: Catherine the Great. Simon Dixon. London, Profile Books, 2009, ISBN: 9781861977229; 447pp.; Price: £25.00. Reviewer: Professor James Cracraft. University of Illinois. Citation: Professor James Cracraft, review of Catherine the Great, (review no. 881) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/881.
Hace 4 días · This celebrated Gothic novel is explored through essays providing critical, historical, anthropological, philosophical and intellectual contexts that serve to further the understanding and appreciation of Dracula in all its many guises. Together the essays offer exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
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