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- 811: Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caulfield
- ... 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 Rye. New York, New York: Bantam Books
- 812: Catcher In The Rye
- ... displaying qualities associated with either at any moment throughout the novel. It is this mixture of qualities that makes Holden one of the most fascinating and popular characters in modern literature. Previts 5 Bibliography Works Cited Carpenter, Frederic I. "The Adolescent in American Fiction" English Journal, 46, No.6 (September 1957): 315-6. Rpt. in Holden Caulfield ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1990. 24. Gwynn, Frederick L., Joseph L. Blotner. "The ...
- 813: Catch 22
- A cult classic, Catch-22 is also considered a classic in American literature. It tells the story of Captain John Yossarian, bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Force in the Second World War. Yossarian sees himself as one powerless man in an ...
- 814: Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- ... Mary Rowlandson is a personal account, written by Mary Rowlandson in 1682, of what life in captivity was like. Her narrative of her captivity by Indians became popular in both American and English literature. Mary Rowlandson basically lost everything by an Indian attack on her town Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1675; where she is then held prisoner and spends eleven weeks with the Wampanoag Indians ...
- 815: Battle Royal
- ... an excerpt from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, is far more than a commentary on the racial issues faced in society at that time. It is an example of African-American literature that addresses not only the social impacts of racism, but the psychological components as well. The narrator (IM) is thrust from living according to the perceptions of who he believes ...
- 816: A Clockwork Orange
- ... out. You are free." -Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess has been heralded as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Although Burgess has over thirty works of published literature, his most famous is A Clockwork Orange. Burgess’s novel is a futuristic look at a Totalitarian government. The main character, Alex, is an "ultra-violent" thief who has no ... suicide and the State is forced to admit that the therapy was a mistake and they cure him again. The last chapter of the novel which was omitted from the American version and from Stanley Kubrick’s film shows Alex’s realization that he is growing up and out of his ultra-violent ways on his own. He realizes that he ...
- 817: Fantasy Author Charles De Lint
- ... and folk tales, which included Celtic folklore"(Somerton). It is no wonder that when he did begin to write that his work was highly influenced by all three types of literature. De Lint is connected with the creation of the "Urban Fantasy" genre. However, he actually started out writing in the traditional fantasy style. It was only when his wife, Mary ... most recent novels is titled Someplace to be Flying. It takes place in modern times and in de Lint's city of Newford. This book has many elements of Native American mythology within it. It is based on the idea that the world, and everything within it, was created by "animal people", also called the "first people". These animal people are ...
- 818: Animal Farm
- ... a political writer who wrote of his own times. He was a man of intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated cant and lying and cruelty in life and in literature. He was critical of communism but was himself a Socialist. The setting for Animal Farm is Manor Farm in England during the time of the Russian revolution. The farm is ... Farm, the animals speak with a Russian accent. For instance, the word "comrade" is used often. The pigs mostly use a Russian accent, but the other animals mainly use an American accent. Animal Farm is about a farm in England during the Russian revolution. The animals on Manor Farm are fed up with the way they are being treated. Inspired by ...
- 819: Huck Finn
- ... Mark Twain, Mr. Clemens has made a very distinct literary advance over Tom Sawyer, as an interpreter of human nature and a contributor to our stock of original pictures of American life. Still adhering to his plan of narrating the adventures of boys, with a primeval and Robin Hood freshness, he has broadened his canvas and given us a picture of ... and the king, with its pictures of Mississippi communities, both of which our readers probably saw in the Century magazine. They are equaled in dramatic force by nothing recently in literature. We are not in this notice telling the story or quoting from a book that nearly everybody is sure to read, but it is proper to say that Mr. Clemens ...
- 820: History Of The Detective Novel
- ... the word "Rache" is written in blood near each of the bodies. What they discover is a tale of revenge based in London, but with its origins deep in the American West. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins also presented works to this genre, but unfortunately Dickens contribution The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) was not completed before Dickens himself died, leaving ... became two major schools of detective writing, the country house clue puzzle and the private eye or hard boiled school. The leaders in each particular school have become legends of literature. Agatha Christie was the most famous of the writers in the country house clue puzzle school, where the outcome of the book rested more on the intelligence and thought processes ...
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