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- 1181: The Works of Sinclair Lewis
- ... published posthumously in 1952. His reputation was international. Although he generally scoffed at prizes and refused the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for Arrowsmith, Lewis accepted the 1930 Nobel Prize in literature. He was the first American ever to receive this award.
- 1182: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... September of 1960, had a different opinion of it; "Hitchcock pushes everything as far as he can go: the violence, the sex, the thrills and the gore." All of the literature used in this report all agree on one fact: Psycho is a movie beyond its years and is one of the best in movie history. Although none of his movies ...
- 1183: Walt Whitman and His Poetry
- ... dad was an English carpenter who probably could not read his son's poetry. His parent's family consisted of nine children, four of whom had disabilities. His start in literature came when, at the age of 12, he was withdrawn from school to work as a printer. At this time he began to learn to love reading books. He read ...
- 1184: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- ... The young boy who barely knows she exists constantly in her thoughts. "Welty has given, and will continue to give(For these works are soundly made and will stand) a literature that reaches great stature in it's theme of love"(Schlueter, 535). Eudora Welty captures the feelings of being in love and shows them brilliantly on paper. The reader immediately ...
- 1185: Carl Jung
- ... to Jung, who first gave them their direction. The book is also interesting, because of its challenging nature. I suppose that not all people would enjoy reading such type of literature, since many people in this world are sensational types. I certainly did enjoy it, and have found out some things about myself in the process. The book is very well ...
- 1186: Oscar Wilde
- ... saw it performed there but that it ran unsuccessfully. Throughout that year he lectured in 70 American cities as well as Ontario and Quebec in Canada on the arts and literature. The tour was an unmitigated smash and Wilde returned to London in 1883 in triumph and richer by several thousand pounds. By the time he returned from America he had ...
- 1187: Kublai Khan
- ... The court at Cambulac attracted an international group of courageous men. One of these men included the famous Venetian Marco Polo. Kublai Khan did much to encourage the advancement of literature and arts as well. He was a devout Buddhist. Kublai also made Buddhism the state religion during his dynasty. Although Buddhism was the main religion, during his reign many other ...
- 1188: Albert Einstein: His Life
- ... electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja ...
- 1189: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for review. After a couple of weeks and a couple rounds around the department, the English professors were stunned. They realized that they had a real writer on their ...
- 1190: Robert Mannyng of Brunne
- ... show the English the errors of their sinful life. Its intimate descriptions of daily life provides a fine social history of fourteenth-century England - it is far more history than literature. On the other hand, The Chronicle of England is an epic bildungsroman largely based on fiction and myth, and uses the works of Geoffrey Crayon, Franklin of Avalon, Geoffrey Monmouth ...
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