... science could create a rational, and more enlightened, society. The seventeenth-century scientific world of Newton, which provided the agreed basis of understanding in the nineteenth century, is radically displaced in novels like The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Yet, though radical in his social vision – Ann Veronica (1909) is a novel ... a boating holiday on the Thames, and contains a great many comic set pieces which have hardly dated. Ronald Firbank is an unusual figure in early twentieth-century literature. His stories and novel...

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... and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. He hears noises and suffers from insomnia forever afterward, and at night he writes grotesque novels. Céline sees death and the passage of time as the same process. The narrator also read about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the hotel room's Gideon Bible ... to read. The only human novel is Valley of the Dolls, and when Billy asks for a Trafalmadorian novel, he learns that the aliens' novels are slim, sleek volumes. Because they have a different concept of time, Trafalmadorians have no...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... a tool to promote the anti-fascist movement and his first novel Fontamara, for which he is still best known, is no exception. Silone's novels had the purpose of arousing the reader from the lethargy induced by fascist propaganda to a critical awareness of conditions around him. Giorgio Bassani's way of ... much less detailed way and keeps strictly to the anti-Fascist message with a very bitter attitude to those that he sees as evil. The two novels are very different from each other in location, time and social class, but they both have traits of the individual and collective within their...

• Word Count: 2562
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of the American West were very popular among Austrian and German boys. His favorite author was a German writer by the name of Karl May, who had written over 70 novels. These novels were read and reread, as well as reinacted by Adolf. He continued to reread these books even as the leader of Germany; even giving copies of these books on fighting ... Indians to his field officers during the attack on Russia. Adolf referred to Russians as the Indians in the novels ("The Rise of Hitler"). In 1898, the Hitler family moved again into a small house next to a cemetery in the village of Leonding....

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• Grade Level: High School

... stay in Europe through the 1920's, Ernest was influenced by eccentric writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary compression. Hemingway's use of these methods in short stories and novels that captured the attention of critics and the public. In the 1930's, he turned to writing for causes, including democracy as he knew it in the Spanish Civil War and ... very well and are translated in an amazing variety of languages around the world. HEMINGWAY HERO "For Ernest Hemingway, the secondary world which he constructed in his many stories and novels served as a mirror to reflect...

• Word Count: 3440
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Hold and Company, 1994. Gorsky, Susan Rubinow. Virginia Woolf. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1978. Graham, John. "Time in the Novels of Virginia Woolf."" Critics on Virginia Woolf: Reading in Literary Criticism. Ed. Jacqueline E. M. Latham. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1979. Leaska, Mitchell A. The ... Novels of Virginia Woolf: From Beginning to End. City University of New York: John Jay Press, 1977. "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder General Information: The Nature of PTSD."" The National Centre for .....

• Word Count: 2886
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... to platform shoes and other devices in an effort to appear taller than he actually was. Stalin received excellent grades and enrolled in the school choir. Stalin loved reading adventure novels and he had a passion for the outdoors. Stalin was very energetic and grew to be very strong despite his short arm and small stature. Stalin graduated from the church school ... communism and changed the future of economics and political development. Despite the efforts of the Seminary's administrators, Stalin and his classmates read many anti-establishment literature ranging from the romantic nove...

• Word Count: 2506
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... of war, he finds life meaningless. In the bed next to him lies an ex-captain named Eliot Rosewater. Eliot introduces Billy to the clever but poorly written science fiction novels of Kilgore Trout. Billy's mother visits him, and he covers his head with a blanket. Back in Germany, Edgar Derby keeps watch over Billy's sickbed. Billy remembers Derby's death by firing ... ...

• Word Count: 5323
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• Grade Level: High School

... of the words "your-, "my- and "me- reflect a situation that occurs amongst young children all the time. Such remarks make the conflict seem more childish and petty (Babb, Howard S. The Novels of William Golding. Ohio State University Press. Copyright 1970. page 20). Golding also uses sentence structure to reveal weakness in Ralph's abilities to reason things out. After Ralph declares that ... ...

• Word Count: 4223
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School