... literatures' most admired authors, whose works although numerously honored and have the distinction of being termed as classics, have been subjected to ridicule for their supposed vulgar content. However, Twain lived through his pen and his pen lived through him, it can be assumed, that concerning ... the Mississippi that would provide Clemens with his' pseudonym, that would last for generations to come. He was required to anticipate the force of the current going upstream and downstream make mental- notes of the changing depths at every crucial spot where the leadsmen dropped their ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, in which each writer used elements of literature in various ways to create the literary classics for which they are famous. Great Expectations illustrated the life of Phillip Pirrip, known to the reader as simply Pip, and ... of each of the novels is intermingled with the first person point of view so that the attitude of both books changed with the attitude of their main characters. For example, when Pip was angry with himself, Dickens writes more aggressively and critically. Likewise, when Henry was with...

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... deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators, but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway died in 1961. From these introductory remarks, it seems that ... prose style of The Old Man and the Sea in "Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Old Man and the Sea-, Malcolm Cowley notes that Hemingway "uses the oldest and shortest words, the simplest constructions, but gives them a new value - as if English were a strange ... . He himself is the mediu...

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