... stories, 1962) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Of Love and Other Demons (1995) One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in 1967 gave him an international reputation. On a critical level, it has been described as his masterpiece, and one of the great novels of the twentieth century. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. He has been described as the master of "magic realism" in his novels. He said ... : "The tricks you need to transform something ... ...

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... drank and gambled. His mother was a housewife who occasionally had part-time jobs as a teacher. She moved to the United States when she was twelve from Sweden. In 1885, Robert's father died of tuberculosis. The family was forced to move to Lawrence, Massachusetts where Robert attended high school. At Lawrence High School, Frost published several poems in the school magazine and was named "class poet". He graduated ... school, Robert earned his income by teaching at Derby's Pinkerton Academy. Robert Frost was a family man but it can also be concluded that he felt separated partially becau...

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... dreams. Upon my families arrival in America they in turn provided a stable environment in which the following generations could be raised with strong Irish traditions. In 1846, a potato famine struck Ireland that lasted until 1850. During this time a blight of the potato crop left acres of Irish farmland covered with black rot. Peasants ate the rotten produce and got sick, while entire villages were consumed with cholera and typhus. Some landlords ... songs are usually about the subjects of love and betrayal, everyday country life and historical or newsworthy events ("Traditional Music ...

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