Literature

Summary  The novel starts as the narrator laments on his childhood as he constantly tried to draw a Boa Constrictor eating an elephant. When he would show grownups his drawing they would constantly assume that it was a hat despite all his efforts in drawing it differently. The grownups around him encouraged him to quit drawing and pay more attention...

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Key Facts Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables has been so enormously popular that there is literally an entire industry attached to the novel. Museums, replicas of the farm, postage stamps, tourism centers—virtually a world of merchandise, books, and other entertainment media have followed in the wake of this novel. In a 2003 survey called The Big Read, a British...

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CONTENTS The extreme positions advanced in Machiavelli’s The Prince have been the subject of debate ever since it was written. Scholars in the 18th Century, unable to accept such an unrestrained endorsement of murder and tyranny, made the case that the work was actually political satire. Other scholars insist that though Machiavelli’s ideas are immoral and extreme, they were shaped by the...

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Phenomenal Woman BY MAYA ANGELOU Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm...

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The great Australian poet Henry Lawson depicted his brutal experience in the poem “One Hundred and Three” where he elaborated on his moments of despair, torment, and misery. The title refers to a prisoner’s cell number, and the poem is meant to drive home the fact that prisoners were tormented in the Victorian era. One Hundred and Three BY HENRY...

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The origin of the word poetry is taken from the Greek word poiesis, which translates literally to mean ‘making’. Poetry is a type of literary work that calls upon the aesthetic and rhythmic elements of language – like sound symbolism, metre and phonaesthetics – in order to arouse meaning or to create imagery through words. Simply put, poems are a means...

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Quotations and Analysis "All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike," says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Karenina, transfigured into English by R.G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880). That pronouncement has little if any relation to the story to be unfolded now, a family chronicle, the...

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Introduction Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, first published in 1908, has been considered a classic of children’s literature almost since its original date of publication. A novel which appeals to all ages, it has never dwindled in popularity. The story of an 11-year old girl who is mistakenly sent to a two older people for adoption, we watch...

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Dedication BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON My first gift and my last, to you I dedicate this fascicle of songs - The only wealth I have: Just as they are, to you. I speak the truth in soberness, and say I had rather bring a light to your clear eyes, Had rather hear you praise This bosomful of songs Than that...

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CONTENTS White Noise was published in January 1985 just weeks after a real airborne toxic event killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India. The novel was written before the disaster, but many critics have seen the novel as a hyper-real representation of a real event.

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