... their stories on experiences that have happened to them or to someone they are acquainted with. His life seems to echo the plots of his epic novels: indeed he was strongly influenced by personal experience and his stories brim with references to the places and characters he knew and the preoccupations that haunted ... has a plethora of works that he has accomplished during the course of his life. His works include over fifteen novels, each being over eight hundred pages in length. This is an unprecedented task for any author before Dickens. His novels include A Christmas Carol, A Tale of...

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... as absurd in some aspects. However, if one chooses, one can see the enlightening theories and thoughts behind his stories. Many of Vonnegut's novels have impacted our lives today, even though one might not realize it. Numerous musicians and bands that we listen to now, make references to Vonnegut ... Band borrows a line (" eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die-) from Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most successful and well known novels. In addition to music; television and movies also make reference to Vonnegut and his writing. Movies such as Can't Hardly Wait, Varsity Blues, Fo...

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... Letters. While working as an editor and a writer for The United States Information Service and The Manila Times Magazine in Manila, Jose also engaged in writing short stories and eventually novels. In the late fifties Jose founded the Philippine chapter of PEN, an international organization of poets, playwrights, and novelists. In 1965 he started his own publishing house SOLIDARIDAD and a year ... this soil we feed and we imbibe the same virus." F Sionil Jose's My Brother, My Executioner tackles similar issues that Dr. Jose Rizal recounted in his controversial novels Noli Me Tangere and...

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... born. During the 50's Shirley's amount of publishing's were at it's highest. She has written and published six articles: one children's non-fiction book; four novels: and two book length family chronicles. In 1953 Mr. Hyman decided to go back to teaching at the Bennington College. (Hall 31) At this time in ... We have Always Lived in the Castle. It made the best sellers list and was in the Time magazine as one of the top ten novels of the year. (Hall 37) Her daily living became easier for her and the anxiety was going away. She was recovering and her sessions ... Her daughter Sally went ...

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... of his works were based on his experiences throughout his travels. Hemingway was a writer in a variety of ways. He was a novelist creating wonderful novels, columnist, and journalist for different magazines. When Hemingway was young and first started out he just wrote for the school newspaper and literary magazine during ... the first draft, he wrote another novel The Torrents of Spring. In 1926, Hemingway starts with a new publisher, Charles Scribeners Son, which then both novels are then published by them in New York. There were great reviews and sales for Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises...

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... 28, 1916. His ashes were buried in the James family cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Henry James work was remarkable and outstanding in his lifetime he put out 112 tales, 20 novels, 2 columns of auto biography and part of a third, travel essays and books, 3,000 pages of literary criticism, and 16 plays. Some scholars criticize James works because of its slow development ... short stories and criticism. His first novel was "Roderick Hudson"(1875), a book mainly concentrated on the life of Roderick Hudson and travels to Europe and discovers manners and morals. Other novels that came ...

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... grew up with an alcoholic father and an adoring, intensely ambitious mother. Dissipate all Francis would grow up to be the writer who would sum up the Jazz Era with novels and short stories from 1920 to 1940. Francis" style of writing would be something that took the public by storm with his first novel "This Side of Paradise." F. Scott Fitzgerlad ... life. The search for love in "Winter Dreams" demonstrates Fitzgerald's search for love in his own life. When looking upon Fitzgerald's novels you can see an insight into his own personal life. The shadowy characters that Francis Scott star...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, an early-American writer plagued by the sins of his ancestors, channeled the guilt and shame he felt to write novels and short stories that would earn himself a spot among the most-read and most famous American writers of all time. Hawthorne's great-grandfather, a judge in the Salem Witch Trials, inspired ... Letter in 1850. The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's master opus, "a genuine native romance" (Whipple, 3) full of subtle terror and particularly appealing remains one of the most well-received American novels. The Scarlet Letter, along with The House of Seven Gables and ...

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... he was a little older he found some stories Donald King, his father, had written with hopes of publication in a trunk along with some hopefull rejection slips and some Horror fiction novels. Soon he would have rejection slips of his own. King actually began his writing career in1959 when he and his brother decided to publish their own newspaper they called Dave ... rejection slips. In 1971 Stephen got a job teaching at Hamden Public High School in Maine wher he made $6,400 a year. He still managed to produce many short stories and even novels, though none were accepted for publication u...

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... mystery writer who wanted to share her fascination with abnormal behaviour and the psychology of guilt. She explored genres such as fantasy, horror, and comedy through novels and volumes of short stories. Several of her novels were inspiration for well-known films. Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train was one film based on Tom Ripley, Highsmith's series character. As a child, Highsmith grew up ... . Ripley. Anthony Minghella directed the latest film based on this mysterious story in 1999, which starred Matt Damon as the peculiar and conniving Tom Ripley. Ripley appears in many other n...

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... educated you don't necessarily have to have some one teaching you, you can also learn through books. I am not talking about scholastic books, I am talking about novels, short stories, poems, reading like those. Through novels, short stories and poems you learn other peoples opinions and may compare them to your own. Most of the time what people write about are experiences that ... really analyzed education and school, but now that I read that story I can see why he wrote it in the first place, and I have become more educated. By reading short stories, novels and poems you find out more ...

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... Dr. Mandalet in Kate's controversial book The Awakening. Having discovered that she liked Maupassant and his style of writing, Kate threw herself into writing her own essays, short stories and novels. She drew on her strong sense of feminine independence and free will, and her experiences with the people and places of New Orleans and Louisiana, for her writing. She was ... heavily influenced subconsciously by all the deaths in her life, and often had femme fatales, suicides and socially shocking themes as the basis for her novels. Kate Chopin was thirty nine when she published her first...

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... of short stories entitled, In Our Time. In 1926 he signed a contract with Scribners and published Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises Which was one of his best novels (A Storyteller's Legacy). In 1927 Hemingway published a short story collection, Men Without Women. In that year he divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfieffer. In 1928 they moved to Key ... published and his father Clarence Hemmingway committed suicide (Resource Center). In addition to personal experience with war and death, Hemingway's widespread travel, hunting and other sports provided material for his ...

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... the most important period of his life. When he came back home after one year he did not have any gold, but many ideas and inspirations for the stories and novels that made him famous. Jack worked long and hard on his stories but found it difficult to make much money with some of his stories only earning him $7.50. Jack ... unknown. He shows the unpleasantness and harshness of the world in a very detailed and exciting way. Although London is generally known as a short fiction writer, he also had very popular novels. The most famous one is Call of the Wild. Call of the Wild is an example ...

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... hell. Fitzgerald began writing short stories as a way to support his and Zelda's lifestyle and frequently wrote for the "Saturday Evening Post" and "Esquire", putting off his writing of grand novels in the favor of quick and reliable income (Bruccoli, 1994). This along with the playboy image he had cultivated earned him much criticism from established literary critics. But he could ... -present feeling of closeness and emotional truth. Even when Fitzgerald wrote about the ridiculous he weaved a believable world in which these fantastic and tragic characters existed. While the stories and...

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... , male and female (Saxton 5). In Louisa's later writings she covered many new themes. In the adult, or later, writings it was pulp fiction that features racy heroines and serious adult novels with proto-feminist themes. Murder, insanity, thwarted passion, drug addiction, femme fatales are some themes used in these writings. Even though no one associated the themes with Louisa she did ... use them (MacDonald 19). Works and Moods were two adult books that Louisa attempted. The two novels themes covered sacrifices and disappointments. "Another main theme in Alcott's writing in the value of ...

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... as a public speaker (Bloom, P 49). In 1867 Twain published his first book and it was titled, "The Celebrated Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County," and other sketches as well. Twain's earlier novels, short stories, essays, and public lectures poke fun at human imperfection with delight and cordiality. In 1894 following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige type setting ... time his writing became very moralistic and had few humorous pieces in his writings. If you compare some of the stories before that period in his life to his later novels you would notice a huge change i...

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... of various themes has helped him to gain poetic notoriety. His subjects, including nature and social topics, usually relate to India. Besides poetry, Mr. Kipling's attempt at short stories and novels has been successful as well. Rudyard Kipling's works are greatly known for their sociological references, use of language, and influences from India. Many of Kipling's verses teem with political references ... for Literature. Despite severe diatribe for his controversial ,imperialistic, and somewhat racist poetry, Kipling managed to surprise readers with his variously different works. Even ...

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... as a public speaker (Bloom, P 49). In 1867 Twain published his first book and it was titled, "The Celebrated Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County," and other sketches as well. Twain's earlier novels, short stories, essays, and public lectures poke fun at human imperfection with delight and cordiality. In 1894 following the failure of his publishing company and of the Paige type setting ... time his writing became very moralistic and had few humorous pieces in his writings. If you compare some of the stories before that period in his life to his later novels you would notice a huge change i...

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... , male and female (Saxton 5). In Louisa's later writings she covered many new themes. In the adult, or later, writings it was pulp fiction that features racy heroines and serious adult novels with proto-feminist themes. Murder, insanity, thwarted passion, drug addiction, femme fatales are some themes used in these writings. Even though no one associated the themes with Louisa she did ... use them (MacDonald 19). Works and Moods were two adult books that Louisa attempted. The two novels themes covered sacrifices and disappointments. "Another main theme in Alcott's writing in the value of ...

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There are many connections between Ernest Hemingway's life and his literary works, starting with his short stories all the way up to his most famous novels. The Nick Adams stories are short stories that tell the story of Ernest Hemingway's life. These stories consist of many things, from camping with his father, to witnessing his first ... commonly said is, "Hemingway used to be that he had wandered too far from his roots, his traditions, and had gotten lost" (Espershade, J. Thomas 258). Ernest Hemingway wrote really good novels and short stories. Two of the most striking facts that have bee...

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... . The success of Fitzgerald's novel impressed Zelda Sayre and within one week, they were married. (Bruccoli 253-67) Fitzgerald was not among the highest-paid writers of his time; his novels earned comparatively little, and most of his income came from 160 magazine stories. During the 1920s his income from all sources averaged under $25,000 a year, which was good money ... , Fitzgerald's numerous short stories were collected into his first anthology, Flappers and Philosophers. He would continue to write short stories, mainly for the Saturday Evening Post, and working on his novels. Zelda g...

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... to this novel, Hawthorne went everywhere trying to find every copy of the book and burn it. His efforts were so successful that Fanshawe is one of the rarest American novels. Also during this time he discovered he had a talent for the short story. He published many tales in many periodicals such as Token and New England Magazine. The first publication ... . On July 16, 1853, the Hawthornes arrived at Liverpool. They stayed in Liverpool lasted until 1857. In this time Hawthorne enjoyed his time traveling around Europe. Nathaniel didn't write any novels that we know of in this time period ...

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... identity for themselves, which in turn has affected the relationships they have had over the years. Gender is also a factor that affected relationships and cause separation within families in the novels. In Lives of the Saints, Vittorio observes the double standard present in the village, as described in the following passage: " .it was the women of the village who had been ... of his childhood and its innocence. From a young age he begins to mature and see the truth hidden in his home and his village Valle del Sole. In both these novels we see how factors such as generational gaps, eco...

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... personal physician, Dr. Frederick Kolbenheyer. Dr. Kolbenheyer gave Kate the idea to begin writing. Her first published work is "If It Might Be", which was published in 1889. Kate wrote novels, poetry, and short stories. She wrote a total of twenty-nine pieces of literature. She wrote twenty pieces of fiction, three short stories, and six ... novels. Some of her works are, "If It Might Be" published in 1889, "A Point at Issue" published in 1889, Story of an Hour published in 1894, A Night in Acadie published in ... ...

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