tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60954706329812568192024-02-18T20:44:35.705-06:00Great Stories - Fiction And Others - Top-selling ClassicsDiscover the best books of all time - top-selling fiction and other classics...robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-11637269506244466262015-03-17T14:44:00.000-05:002015-03-17T14:44:13.732-05:00How to Train Yourself to Illustrate Children's Books<h1>
Training Yourself to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustration" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Illustration">Illustrate</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Children's literature">Children's Books</a> is Simple: Study at the Feet of Masters.</h1>
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For some time, I've wanted to simply write and illustrate children's books. The trick is how to do this. You can find books and books on how to draw, and what good book illustrations consist of.<br />
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I made up my mind to simply drop all the other interesting things I'd been doing in favor of simply doing more of what I was interested in and had always known I was heading for - one day.<br />
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Getting financial freedom from a home business and being frugal, I was set. No worries from here on out.<br />
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Again, where to start?<br />
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Looking up the classic children's books found this little nugget about Beatrix Potter, from Wikipedia:<br />
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Potter’s artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by
fairies, fairy tales and fantasy. She was a student of the classic fairy
tales of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe" title="Western Europe">Western Europe</a>. As well as stories from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan" title="John Bunyan">John Bunyan</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress" title="The Pilgrim's Progress">The Pilgrim's Progress</a></i> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe" title="Harriet Beecher Stowe">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin" title="Uncle Tom's Cabin">Uncle Tom's Cabin</a></i>, she grew up with <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</a></i>, the fairy tales of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm" title="Brothers Grimm">Brothers Grimm</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen" title="Hans Christian Andersen">Hans Christian Andersen</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water-Babies,_A_Fairy_Tale_for_a_Land_Baby" title="The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby">The Water Babies</a></i>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup> the folk tales and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_mythology" title="Scottish mythology">mythology of Scotland</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Romanticism" title="German Romanticism">German Romantics</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup> and the romances of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Walter_Scott" title="Sir Walter Scott">Sir Walter Scott</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup> As a young child, before the age of eight, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear" title="Edward Lear">Edward Lear</a>'s <i>Book of Nonsense</i>, including the much loved <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_and_the_Pussycat" title="The Owl and the Pussycat">The Owl and the Pussycat</a></i>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland">Alice in Wonderland</a></i> had made their impression, although she later said of <i>Alice</i> that she was more interested in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel" title="John Tenniel">Tenniel</a>'s illustrations than what they were about.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup> The <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brer_Rabbit" title="Brer Rabbit">Brer Rabbit</a></i> stories of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Chandler_Harris" title="Joel Chandler Harris">Joel Chandler Harris</a> had been family favourites, and she later studied his <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Remus" title="Uncle Remus">Uncle Remus</a></i> stories and illustrated them.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup> She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_book" title="Picture book">picture book</a> triumvirate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Crane" title="Walter Crane">Walter Crane</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Greenaway" title="Kate Greenaway">Kate Greenaway</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Caldecott" title="Randolph Caldecott">Randolph Caldecott</a>, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup> When she started to illustrate, she chose first the traditional rhymes and stories, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella" title="Cinderella">Cinderella</a>", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty" title="Sleeping Beauty">Sleeping Beauty</a>", "<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_and_the_Forty_Thieves" title="Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves">Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves</a>", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_in_Boots" title="Puss in Boots">Puss-in-boots</a>", and "<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Riding_Hood" title="Red Riding Hood">Red Riding Hood</a>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup> But most often her illustrations were fantasies featuring her own pets: mice, rabbits, kittens, and guinea pigs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup></blockquote>
So that's the secret - follow and emulate Potter, as well as those linked above - particularly Crane, Greenaway, and Caldecott (as well as Lear, Tenniel, and Harris.)<br />
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Since my home business has been republishing public domain books, it's a simple way to get these books paying for my education.<br />
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Along with the art, I'll study the texts for style.<br />
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Of course, there's a business plan which goes along with making that pay its own way - and that's another story. I'm sure people will want these as ebooks for their tablets as well as hardcopy books to have and hold.<br />
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Once I master the arts involved, there is a near infinite supply of legends and stories to inspire children's versions.<br />
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So that's how you train yourself to illustrate:<br />
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<li>Start with some native talent and some art training of any type.</li>
<li>Study only successful artists in the genre you want to succeed in.</li>
<li>Focus on that one "burning desire" to succeed, and you'll make it.</li>
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<b>Few books have continued their bestselling status <u>centuries</u> after their author's death.</b><br />
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Like other classics, such as the Gospels of Jesus, and Lao Tze's Tao Te Chung, there is much discussion of who actually wrote them and how. <br />
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What is important is how such books are <i>used</i>. Because only extremely useful books continue in demand at bookstores, especially over generations. <br />
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Wikipedia notes:<br />
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The Art of War has been applied to many fields well outside of the military. Much of the text is about how to fight wars without actually having to do battle: it gives tips on how to outsmart one's opponent so that physical battle is not necessary. As such, it has found application as a training guide for many competitive endeavors that do not involve actual combat. </blockquote>
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There are business books applying its lessons to office politics and corporate strategy. Many Japanese companies make the book required reading for their key executives. <br />
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The book is also popular among Western business management, who have turned to it for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive business situations. It has also been applied to the field of education. The Art of War has been the subject of law books and legal articles on the trial process, including negotiation tactics and trial strategy. <br />
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This book is entitled <b>The Art of War, A Samurai Master Class</b>, as two additional classics, <i>“The Book of Five Rings”</i> and <i>“Bushido, the Soul of Japan”</i> have been included. No study of this period would be complete without understanding the strategies, tactics, and ethics of the Samurai. <br />
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All of us have our journey to follow. For some, we could use this persona to make our decisions more wisely, to resolve conflicts as we move though life. In this, the Art of War can become the Way of Peace. In any day and age, having an ethical code to live by, while also utilizing a strategy and tactics tool-set which has been proved over centuries of application – these seem to point out a road many can travel on their own. <br />
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This is presented as the old Japanese proverb told, “<i>There are many paths up the mountain.</i>” <br />
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In that spirit, this book is humbly presented for your use.<br />
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(From the Forward)<br />
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This collection is composed of books which have long been in the public domain,<br />
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<li><b>Sun Tzu</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu" target="_blank">d. 496 BC</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu" target="_blank">first published "<i>The Art of War</i>" around 512 BC</a>. this version based on the translation of <a href="http://"The Art of War"" target="_blank">1910 by Lionel Giles</a>.</li>
<li><b>Miyamoto</b> <b>Mushashi </b>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi" target="_blank">d. 1645</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi" target="_blank">first published "<i>The Book of Five Rings</i>" in about 1645</a>, <a href="http://ninjamarket.com/a-book-of-five-rings" target="_blank">this version's translator is unknown</a>, while <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953/the-book-of-five-rings" target="_blank">recognized as public domain</a>.</li>
<li><b>Inazo Nitobe</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitobe_Inaz%C5%8D" target="_blank">d. 1933</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido:_The_Soul_of_Japan" target="_blank">first published "Bushido, the Soul of Japan" in 1899 in English.</a></li>
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robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-53372192596096293362014-01-22T20:47:00.000-06:002014-01-22T20:47:54.454-06:00We're missing a catalog for re-released works...<h2>
Bestseller Fiction <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Classics">Classics</a> deserve better.</h2>
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That's why we've been updating them for you with new covers and decent descriptions.<br />
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This all started as a program to enable writers to learn from the classics and so improve their own craft. However, it's popular support has broadened the scope to include the top 100 (or so) all-time popular classic fiction (and a few <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fiction" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Non-fiction">non-fiction</a>) to enable any <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Writer">writer</a> (or reader) to study from history's greatest.<br />
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What we found is that these <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Book">books</a> - now in the public domain - have been given short shrift, with boring covers, cheap-quality printing, and poor (also boring) descriptions that don't communicate the excitement the millions of readers have shared over the years.<br />
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And the ebook versions are mostly some sort of machine-code scene, with no table of contents and sometimes other horrible errors. Sure, they're free - but "you get what you pay for" has never been truer.<br />
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So I started this campaign with a couple dozen books, just to see how they do - and now have committed to doing a full release for over 100 books. This will mean they get proper reviews, their own page on a respectful website, and ways you can find any version of these classics that you want - hardback or digital - all with some care to the reader, and respect for the original author and his works.<br />
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I just wanted to drop you a note to say I'm working on this. Eventually, they'll all wind up in a catalog that you can download (for free) and so have access to all these versions. The great part is that they don't have to cost an incredible amount to get the best quality possible.<br />
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The point is to give writers and readers, as well as the books and their authors, all possible respect. While this may take a good part of the upcoming year to create, it will be a labor of love - and so should go more quickly than someone getting paid to do this. (Of course, these will have small prices on them, which will pay my bills while I re-publish these.)<br />
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Thanks again for your support...<br />
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robertworstellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-90707498193134849922013-08-08T18:55:00.003-05:002013-08-08T18:55:59.338-05:00L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz - classic fiction<h2>
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<b>About this book: </b></h3>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Wonderful Wizard of Oz">The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz</a> is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum
and illustrated by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace_Denslow" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="William Wallace Denslow">W. W. Denslow</a>. Originally published by the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Hill_Company" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="George M. Hill Company">George
M. Hill Company</a> in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been
reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz,
which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the
well-known 1939 film adaptation. The story chronicles the adventures
of a young girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz, after being swept
away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone. The novel is one of the
best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely
translated. Its initial success, and the success of the 1902 Broadway
musical which Baum adapted from his original story, led to Baum's
writing thirteen more Oz books.
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Dorothy is
a young orphaned girl raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the
bleak landscape of a Kansas farm. She has a little black dog Toto,
who is her sole source of happiness on the dry, gray prairies. One
day the farmhouse, with Dorothy and Toto inside, is caught up in a
cyclone and deposited in a field in Munchkin Country, the eastern
quadrant of the Land of Oz. The falling house kills the evil ruler of
the Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the East.
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The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Witch_of_the_North" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Good Witch of the North">Good
Witch of the North</a> comes with the Munchkins to greet Dorothy and
gives Dorothy the Silver Shoes (believed to have magical properties)
that the Wicked Witch had been wearing when she was killed. In order
to return to Kansas, the Good Witch of the North tells Dorothy that
she will have to go to the "Emerald City" or "City of
Emeralds" and ask the Wizard of Oz to help her. Before she
leaves, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead,
giving her magical protection from trouble.
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On her way
down the road of yellow bricks, Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the
pole he is hanging on, restores the movements of the rusted <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Woodman" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tin Woodman">Tin
Woodman</a> with an oil can, and encourages them and the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowardly_Lion" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Cowardly Lion">Cowardly Lion</a> to
journey with her and Toto to the Emerald City. The Scarecrow wants to
get a brain, the Tin Woodman a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, courage.
All four of the travelers believe that the Wizard can solve their
troubles. The party finds many adventures on their journey together,
including overcoming obstacles such as narrow pieces of the yellow
brick road, vicious Kalidahs, a river, and the Deadly Poppies.
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When the
travelers arrive at the Emerald City, they are asked to wear green
spectacles by the Guardian of the Gates as long as they remain in the
city. The four are the first to ever successfully meet with the
Wizard. When each traveler meets with the Wizard, he appears each
time as someone or something different. To Dorothy, the Wizard is a
giant head; the Scarecrow sees a beautiful woman; the Tin Woodman
sees a terrible beast; the Cowardly Lion sees a ball of fire. The
Wizard agrees to help each of them—but only if one of them kills
the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Witch_of_the_West" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Wicked Witch of the West">Wicked Witch of the West</a> who rules over the western Winkie
Country. The Guardian of the Gates warns them that no one has ever
managed to harm the very cunning and cruel Wicked Witch... (source:
Wikipedia)
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<b>About
the author:</b></h3>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="L. Frank Baum">Lyman Frank
Baum</a> (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of
children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a
host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost"
novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of
scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts
to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated
such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality,
laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of
Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the
Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jane%27s_Nieces_at_Work" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work">Aunt Jane's
Nieces at Work</a>). (source: Wikipedia)</div>
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<b>About the Midwest Journal Writers' Club: </b></h3>
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This
was created by popular request to enable any beginning or established
author to improve their skills by studying quality editions of
classic bestselling fiction. Join at <a href="http://www.midwestjournalpress.com/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php">http://midwestjournalpress.com</a>. </div>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="War and Peace">War and Peace</a> is a
novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The
work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important
works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary
achievement, along with his other major prose work <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Anna-Karenina-Barnes-Noble-Classics/dp/1593081774%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dworstelldesig-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1593081774" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)">Anna Karenina</a>
(1873–1877).<br />
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Tolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of
War and Peace that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem,
and still less a historical chronicle". Large sections of the
work, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion
rather than narrative. He went on to elaborate that the best <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Russian literature">Russian
literature</a> does not conform to standard norms and hence hesitated to
call War and Peace a novel. (Instead, Tolstoy regarded Anna Karenina
as his first true novel.)</div>
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The novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg,
at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer—the maid of honour and
confidante to the queen mother Maria Feodorovna. Many of the main
characters and aristocratic families in the novel are introduced as
they enter Anna Pavlovna's salon. Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov
is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, an elderly man who is
dying after a series of strokes. Pierre is about to become embroiled
in a struggle for his inheritance. Educated abroad at his father's
expense following his mother's death, Pierre is essentially
kindhearted, but socially awkward, and owing in part to his open,
benevolent nature, finds it difficult to integrate into Petersburg
society. It is known to everyone at the soirée that Pierre is his
father's favorite of all the old count’s illegitimate children.</div>
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Also attending the soireé is Pierre's friend, the
intelligent and sardonic <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Nikolayevich_Bolkonsky" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky">Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky</a>,
husband of Lise, the charming society favourite. Finding Petersburg
society unctuous and disillusioned with married life after
discovering his wife is empty and superficial, Prince Andrei makes
the fateful choice to be an aide-de-camp to Prince Mikhail
Ilarionovich Kutuzov in the coming war against Napoleon.</div>
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The plot moves to Moscow, Russia's ancient city
and former capital, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to
the highly mannered society of Petersburg. The Rostov family are
introduced. Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov has four adolescent
children. Thirteen-year-old Natasha (Natalia Ilyinichna) believes
herself in love with Boris Drubetskoy, a disciplined young man who is
about to join the army as an officer. Twenty-year-old Nikolai Ilyich
pledges his love to Sonya (Sofia Alexandrovna), his fifteen-year-old
cousin, an orphan who has been brought up by the Rostovs. The eldest
child of the Rostov family, Vera Ilyinichna, is cold and somewhat
haughty but has a good prospective marriage in a Russian-German
officer, Adolf Karlovich Berg. Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) is nine and the
youngest of the Rostov family; like his brother, he is impetuous and
eager to join the army when of age. The heads of the family, Count
Ilya Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova, are an affectionate couple
but forever worried about their disordered finances.</div>
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At Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' country estate,
Prince Andrei departs for war and leaves his terrified, pregnant wife
Lise with his eccentric father Prince Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
and devoutly religious sister Maria Nikolayevna
Bolkonskaya...<br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Leo Tolstoy">Count Lev Nikolayevich
Tolstoy</a> (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7
November] 1910), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who
primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also
wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated
and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic
views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening
in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and
social reformer.<br />
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His literal interpretation of the ethical
teachings of Jesus, centering on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sermon on the Mount">Sermon on the Mount</a>, caused him
in later life to become a fervent <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Christian anarchism">Christian anarchist</a> and
anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in
such works as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-God-Within-You/dp/1602067465%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dworstelldesig-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1602067465" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="The Kingdom of God is Within You">The Kingdom of God Is Within You</a>, were to have a
profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi">Mohandas
Gandhi</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr." rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a><br />
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Island is an adventure novel by British author Robert Louis
Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".
First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally
serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82
under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with
Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North.
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Traditionally
considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure
tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a
wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John
Silver — unusual for children's literature now and then. It is one
of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of
Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous,
including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spot_%28Treasure_Island%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Black Spot (Treasure Island)">the
Black Spot</a>, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots
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James "Jim"
Hawkins is the young son of the owners of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Treasure Island">Admiral Benbow</a> Inn. An
old drunken seaman named <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bones" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Billy Bones">Billy Bones</a> becomes a long-term lodger at
the inn, only paying for about the first week of his stay. Jim
quickly realizes that Bones is in hiding, and that he particularly
dreads meeting an unidentified seafaring man with one leg.
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Some months
later, Bones is visited by a mysterious sailor named Black Dog. Their
meeting turns violent, Black Dog flees and Bones suffers a stroke.
While Jim cares for him, Bones confesses that he was once the mate of
the late notorious pirate, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Flint" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Captain Flint">Captain Flint</a>, and that his old crewmates
want Bones' sea chest. Some time later, another of Bones' crew mates,
a blind man named Pew, appears at the inn and forces Jim to lead him
to Bones. Pew gives Bones a paper. After Pew leaves, Bones opens the
paper to discover it is marked with the Black Spot, a pirate summons,
with the warning that he has until ten o'clock to meet their demands.
Bones drops dead of apoplexy (in this context, a stroke) on the spot.
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Jim and his
mother open Bones' sea chest to collect the amount due to them for
Bones' room and board, but before they can count out the money that
they are owed, they hear pirates approaching the inn and are forced
to flee and hide, Jim taking with him a mysterious oilskin packet
from the chest. The pirates, led by Pew, find the sea chest and the
money, but are frustrated that there is no sign of "Flint's
fist". Customs men approach and the pirates escape to their
vessel (all except for Pew, who is accidentally run down and killed
by the agents' horses).
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Jim takes
the mysterious oilskin packet to Dr. Livesey, as he is a "gentleman
and a magistrate", and he, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squire_Trelawney" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Squire Trelawney">Squire Trelawney</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hawkins_%28character%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jim Hawkins (character)">Jim Hawkins</a>
examine it together, finding it contains a logbook detailing the
treasure looted during Captain Flint's career, and a detailed map of
an island with the location of Flint's treasure marked on it...
(source: Wikipedia)
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<b>About
the author:</b></h3>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert
Louis Balfour Stevenson</a> (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous
works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde">Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde</a>.
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A literary
celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most
translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many
other writers, including <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jorge Luis Borges">Jorge Luis Borges</a>, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur
Conan Doyle, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack
London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who
said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the
point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." (source:
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<b>About
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The Time
Machine is a science fiction novella by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, published in
1895 and later adapted into two feature films of the same name, as
well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book
adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in
many media. This story is generally credited with the popularisation
of the concept of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Time travel">time travel</a> using a vehicle that allows an operator
to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine",
coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.
This work is an early example of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth_%28subgenre%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Dying Earth (subgenre)">Dying Earth subgenre</a>.
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The book's
protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in
Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Time Machine">the Time
Traveller</a>. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his
weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his
demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it.
He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person,
and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable
tale, becoming the new narrator.
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In the new
narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that
takes him to 802,701 A.D., where he meets the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Eloi">Eloi</a>, a society of
small, elegant, childlike adults. They live in small communities
within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings, doing
no work and having a frugivorous diet. His efforts to communicate
with them are hampered by their lack of curiosity or discipline, and
he speculates that they are a peaceful communist society, the result
of humanity conquering nature with technology, and subsequently
evolving to adapt to an environment in which strength and intellect
are no longer advantageous to survival.
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Returning
to the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller is shocked to find
his time machine missing, and eventually works out that it has been
dragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure with heavy
doors, locked from the inside, which resembles a Sphinx. (source:
Wikipedia)
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<b>About
the author:</b></h3>
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Herbert
George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)
was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science
fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres,
including contemporary novels, history, politics and social
commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is
one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction",
as are <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jules Verne">Jules Verne</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Gernsback" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hugo Gernsback">Hugo Gernsback</a>. His most notable science
fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The
Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. (source: Wikipedia)
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The
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Mysterious Affair at Styles">Mysterious Affair at Styles</a> is a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Detective fiction">detective novel</a> by Agatha Christie.
It was written in the middle of World War I, in 1916, and first
published by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lane_%28publisher%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="John Lane (publisher)">John Lane</a> in the United States in October 1920.
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Styles was
Christie's first published novel, introducing <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hercule Poirot">Hercule Poirot</a>,
InspectorJapp, and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hastings" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Arthur Hastings">Arthur Hastings</a>. Poirot is described as "a
dear little man", "an extraordinary looking little man"
and a "quaint dandyfied little man".
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The novel
is set in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=51.5,-0.116666666667%20(England)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="England">England</a> at Styles Court, an Essex country manor (also the
setting of Curtain, Poirot's last case). Upon her husband's death,
the wealthy widow, Emily Cavendish, inherited a life estate in Styles
as well as the outright inheritance of the larger part of the late Mr
Cavendish's income. Mrs Cavendish became Mrs Inglethorp upon her
recent remarriage to a much younger man, Alfred Inglethorp. Emily's
two stepsons, John and Lawrence Cavendish, as well as John's wife
Mary and several other people, also live at Styles. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cavendish" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="John Cavendish">John Cavendish</a> is
the vested remainderman of Styles; that is, the property will pass to
him automatically upon his stepmother's decease, as per his late
father's will. Lawrence Cavendish would also come into a considerable
sum of money. The income left to Mrs Inglethorp by her late husband
would be distributed according to Mrs Inglethorp's own will, which
she changed at least once per year. If she had not changed her will
since her marriage this would go to her husband.
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Late one
night, the residents of Styles wake to find Emily Inglethorp dying of
what proves to be strychnine poisoning. Hastings, a houseguest,
enlists the help of his friend Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the
nearby village, Styles St Mary. Poirot pieces together events
surrounding the murder. On the day she was killed, Mrs Inglethorp was
overheard arguing with someone, most likely either her husband,
Alfred, or her stepson, John. Afterwards, she seemed quite distressed
and, apparently, made a new will — which no one can find. She ate
little at dinner and retired early to her room with her document
case. The case was later forced open by someone and a document
removed. Alfred Inglethorp left Styles earlier in the evening and
stayed overnight in the nearby village, so was not present when the
poisoning occurred. No one knows exactly when or how the strychnine
was administered to Mrs Inglethorp... (source: Wikipedia)
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Agatha Christie">Dame Agatha
Mary Clarissa Christie</a>, DBE (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12
January 1976) was an English crime writer of novels, short stories,
and plays. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary
Westmacott, but she is best remembered for the 66 detective novels
and more than 15 short story collections she wrote under her own
name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such
characters as Hercule Poirot, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Marple" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Miss Marple">Miss Jane Marple</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_and_Tuppence" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Tommy and Tuppence">Tommy and
Tuppence</a>. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The
Mousetrap. (source: Wikipedia)
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The Hound
of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a>.
Originally serialised in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strand_Magazine" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Strand Magazine">The Strand Magazine</a> from August 1901 to
April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West
Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the
legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.
Sherlock Holmes and his companion <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Dr. Watson">Doctor Watson</a> investigate the case.
This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in
"<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Problem" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Final Problem">The Final Problem</a>", and the success of The Hound of the
Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
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Sir <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baskerville" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Charles Baskerville">Charles
Baskerville</a>, Bart, is found dead on the grounds of his country house,
Baskerville Hall. The cause is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing
for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and the only known heir, Sir
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Hound of the Baskervilles">Henry Baskerville</a>, coming from Toronto, Canada to claim his
inheritance, Dr James Mortimer travels to London and asks Sherlock
Holmes for help.
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Mortimer
explains that the Baskerville family is afflicted by a curse.
According to an old account, said to have been written in 1742 and
describing events which had occurred a century earlier still, during
the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, Hugo Baskerville was infatuated with a
farmer's daughter. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his
bedroom. She escaped and the furious Baskerville offered his soul to
the devil if he could recapture her. Aided by friends, he pursued the
girl onto the desolate moor. Baskerville and his victim were found
dead. She had died from fright, but a giant spectral hound stood
guard over Baskerville's body. The hound tore out Baskerville's
throat, then vanished into the night.
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Sir Charles
Baskerville had become fearful of the legendary curse and its
hellhound. Mortimer decided that Sir Charles had been waiting for
someone when he died. His face was contorted in a ghastly expression,
while his footprints suggested that he was running away from
something. The elderly man's heart wasn't strong, and he had planned
to go to London the very next day. Mortimer says he had seen the
footprints of a "gigantic hound" near Sir Charles's body,
nothing was revealed at the inquest...
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Sir Arthur
Ignatius Conan Doyle</a> DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish
physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories
about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered
milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for
writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented,
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Challenger" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Professor Challenger">Professor Challenger</a>. He was a prolific writer whose other works
include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry,
non-fiction, and historical novels.
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The poem is written in the first person, and tells
of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from
the night before <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a> to the Wednesday after Easter in the
spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and
Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven.
Beatrice was a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.7833333333,11.25&spn=0.1,0.1&q=43.7833333333,11.25%20(Florence)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Florence">Florentine</a> woman whom he had met in childhood and
admired from afar in the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love
tradition, which is highlighted in Dante's earlier work <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="La Vita Nuova">La Vita
Nuova</a>.
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The structure of the three realms follows a common
numerical pattern of 9 plus 1, for a total of 10: 9 circles of the
Inferno, followed by Lucifer contained at its bottom; 9 rings of
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Divine Comedy">Mount Purgatory</a>, followed by the Garden of Eden crowning its summit;
and the 9 celestial bodies of Paradiso, followed by the Empyrean
containing the very essence of God. Within each group of 9, 7
elements correspond to a specific moral scheme, subdivided into three
subcategories, while 2 others of greater particularity are added to
total nine. For example, the seven deadly sins of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>
that are cleansed in Purgatory are joined by special realms for the
Late repentant and the excommunicated by the church. The core seven
sins within Purgatory correspond to a moral scheme of love perverted,
subdivided into three groups corresponding to excessive love (Lust,
Gluttony, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Seven deadly sins">Greed</a>), deficient love (Sloth), and malicious love (Wrath,
Envy, Pride).</div>
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(Source: Wikipedia)</div>
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<b>About the Author:</b></h3>
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Dante Alighieri">Durante degli
Alighieri</a>, simply referred to as Dante (c. 1265–1321), was a major
Italian poet of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>. His Divine Comedy, originally called
Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered
the greatest literary work composed in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Italian language">Italian language</a> and a
masterpiece of world literature.
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In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the
Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are
also known as "the three fountains" or "the three
crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian
language".</div>
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(Source: Wikipedia)</div>
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The Count
of Monte Cristo (French: <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Count of Monte Cristo">Le Comte de Monte-Cristo</a>) is an adventure
novel by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="French literature">French author</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Alexandre Dumas">Alexandre Dumas (père)</a>. Complete in 1844, it
is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three
Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from plot
outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Maquet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Auguste Maquet">Auguste Maquet</a>.</div>
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The story
takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean, and in
the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838. It begins
from just before the Hundred Days period (when Napoleon returned to
power after his exile) and spans through to the reign of
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Louis Philippe I">Louis-Philippe of France</a>. The historical setting is a fundamental
element of the book. An adventure story primarily concerned with
themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness, it focuses
on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a
fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his
imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for
the innocent as well as the guilty.<br />
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In 1815
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Dant%C3%A8s" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Edmond Dantès">Edmond Dantès</a>, a young and successful merchant sailor recently who
has just been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain
Leclère, returns to Marseille to marry his fiancée Mercédès.
Leclère, a supporter of the exiled Napoléon I, found himself dying
at sea and charged Dantès to deliver two objects: a package to
Marshall Bertrand (exiled with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Napoleon">Napoleon Bonaparte</a> on Elba), and a
letter from Elba to an unknown man in Paris. On the eve of his
wedding to Mercédès, Fernand (Mercédès' cousin and a rival for
her affections) is given subtle advice by Dantès's colleague
Danglars (who is jealous of his rapid rise to captain), to send an
anonymous note accusing Dantès of being a Bonapartist traitor.
Caderousse (Dantès's cowardly and selfish neighbor) is drunk while
the two conspirators set the trap for Dantès, and while he objects
to the idea of hurting Dantès, he stays quiet the next day as Dantès
is arrested then sentenced even though his testimony could have
stopped the entire scandal from happening. Villefort, the deputy
crown prosecutor in Marseille, while initially sympathetic to Dantès,
destroys the letter from Elba when he discovers that it is addressed
to his own father, a Bonapartist. In order to silence Dantès, he
condemns him without trial to life imprisonment... (source:
Wikipedia)
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Alexandre
Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December
1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer,
best known for his historical novels of high adventure. Translated
into nearly 100 languages, these have made him one of the most widely
read French authors in history. Many of his novels, including The
Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vicomte_of_Bragelonne%3A_Ten_Years_Later" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later">The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later</a> were originally published
as serials. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth
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The Call of
the Wild is a novel by American author Jack London published in 1903.
The story is set in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Yukon">Yukon</a> during the 19th-century <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Klondike Gold Rush">Klondike Gold
Rush</a>—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The
novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog
living at a ranch in California as the story opens. Stolen from his
home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he
reverts to atavistic traits. Buck is forced to adjust and survive
cruel treatments, fight to dominate other dogs, and survive in a
harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the veneer of civilization,
relying on primordial instincts through lessons he learns, to emerge
as a leader in the wild.
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London
lived for most of a year in the Yukon and gained from that experience
material for the book. The story was serialized in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Saturday Evening Post">Saturday
Evening Post</a> in the summer of 1903; a month later it was released in
book form. The novel's great popularity and success made a reputation
for London. Much of its appeal derives from the simplicity with which
London presents the themes in an almost mythical form.
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The story
opens with Buck, a large and powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Collie,
living happily in California's Santa Clara Valley as the pet of Judge
Miller. However he is stolen by the gardener's assistant and shipped
to Seattle. Put in a crate, Buck is unfed and beaten by the "man
in the red sweater". When released, he attacks the man but is
badly beaten and taught to respect the law of the club. Buck is then
sold to a pair of French-Canadian dispatchers from the Canadian
government, François and Perrault, who take him with them to the
Klondike region of Canada. There they train him as a sled dog. From
his teammates, he quickly learns to survive cold winter nights and
the pack society. A rivalry develops between Buck and the vicious,
quarrelsome lead dog, Spitz. Buck eventually beats Spitz in a fight
"to the death". Spitz is killed by the pack after his
defeat and Buck becomes the leader of the team.
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The team is
then sold to a "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-M%C3%A9tis" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Anglo-Métis">Scottish half breed</a>" man working the mail
service. The dogs must carry a heavy load to the mining areas, and
the journey they make is tiresome and long. Some of the dogs become
sickly and are shot.
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Buck's next
owners are a trio of stampeders—Hal, Charles, and a woman named
Mercedes—inexperienced at surviving in the Northern wilderness.
They struggle to control the sled and ignore warnings that the spring
melt poses dangers. They overfeed the dogs and starve them when the
food runs out. On their journey they meet <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Call of the Wild">John Thornton</a>, an
experienced outdoorsman, who notices that the dogs have been poorly
treated and are in a weakened condition. He warns the trio against
crossing the river, but they refuse his advice and order Buck to move
on. Exhausted, starving, and sensing the danger ahead, Buck refuses
and continues to lie unmoving in the snow... (source: Wikipedia)
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John
Griffith "Jack" London (born <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jack London">John Griffith Chaney</a>, January
12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)was an American author, journalist,
and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of
commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers
to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction
alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild
and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the
short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the
North", and "Love of Life".[citation needed] He also
wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of
Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="San Francisco">San Francisco
Bay area</a> in The Sea Wolf. (source: Wikipedia)</div>
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<b>About
this book:</b></h3>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Art of War">The Art of
War</a> is an <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="History of China">ancient Chinese</a> military treatise attributed to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sun Tzu">Sun Tzu</a>, a
high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is
composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of
warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military
strategy and tactics of its time. It has been the most famous and
influential of China's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Military_Classics" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Seven Military Classics">Seven Military Classics</a>, and "for the
last two thousand years it remained the most important military
treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name."
It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking,
business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.
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The book
was first translated into the French language in 1772 by French
Jesuit <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Joseph_Marie_Amiot" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jean Joseph Marie Amiot">Jean Joseph Marie Amiot</a> and a partial translation into English
was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905.
The first annotated English language translation was completed and
published by Lionel Giles in 1910. Leaders as diverse as Mao Zedong,
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vo_Nguyen_Giap" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Vo Nguyen Giap">General Vo Nguyen Giap</a>, Baron <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Henri_Jomini" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Antoine-Henri Jomini">Antoine-Henri Jomini</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Douglas MacArthur">General Douglas
MacArthur</a> and leaders of Imperial Japan have drawn inspiration from
the work.
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Sun Tzu
considered war as a necessary evil that must be avoided whenever
possible. The war should be fought swiftly to avoid economic losses:
"No long war ever profited any country: 100 victories in 100
battles is simply ridiculous. Anyone who excels in defeating his
enemies triumphs before his enemy's threats become real".
According to the book, one must avoid massacres and atrocities
because this can provoke resistance and possibly allow an enemy to
turn the war in his favor. For the victor, "the best policy is
to capture the state intact; it should be destroyed only if no other
options are available".</div>
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Sun Tzu
emphasized the importance of positioning in military strategy. The
decision to position an army must be based on both objective
conditions in the physical environment and the subjective beliefs of
other, competitive actors in that environment. He thought that
strategy was not planning in the sense of working through an
established list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate
responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled
environment; but in a changing environment, competing plans collide,
creating unexpected situations.
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(source:
Wikipedia)
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<b>About the author: </b></h3>
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Sun Tzu
was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher
from the Zhou Dynasty. He is traditionally believed to be the author
of The Art of War, an extremely influential ancient Chinese book on
military strategy. Sun Tzu has had a significant impact on Chinese
and Asian history and culture, both as an author of The Art of War as
well as through legend.
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During the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sun Tzu's The Art of War grew in
popularity and saw practical use in Western society. His work
continues to influence both Asian and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Western culture">Western culture</a>, politics,
business, and sports.
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(source:
Wikipedia)</div>
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<b>About the Midwest Journal Writers' Club: </b></h3>
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author to improve their skills by studying quality editions of
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibility_%281981_TV_miniseries%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV miniseries)">Sense and Sensibility</a> is a novel by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>, and
was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the
pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, Sense and
Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and
portrays the life and loves of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Dashwood" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Elinor Dashwood">Dashwood</a> sisters, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibility" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sense and Sensibility">Elinor and
Marianne</a>. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a
meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they
experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution
of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and
sensibility have truly merged.
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When Mr.
Dashwood dies, his estate, Norland Park, passes directly to his only
son John, the child of his first wife. His second wife, Mrs.
Dashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are
left only a small income. On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a
promise from his son, that he will take care of his <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibling" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Sibling">half-sisters</a>;
however, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to
renege. John and Fanny immediately take up their place as the new
owners of Norland, while the Dashwood women are reduced to the
position of unwelcome guests. Mrs. Dashwood begins looking for
somewhere else to live.
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In the
meantime, Fanny's brother, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ferrars" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Edward Ferrars">Edward Ferrars</a>, a pleasant, unassuming,
intelligent but reserved young man, visits Norland and soon forms an
attachment with Elinor. Fanny disapproves the match and offends Mrs.
Dashwood with the implication that Elinor is motivated by money
rather than love. Mrs. Dashwood indignantly speeds her search for a
new home.
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Mrs.
Dashwood moves her family to Barton Cottage in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Devon">Devonshire</a>, near the
home of her cousin, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Middleton_%28administrator%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="John Middleton (administrator)">Sir John Middleton</a>. Their new home lacks many of
the conveniences that they have been used to, however they are warmly
received by Sir John, and welcomed into the local society, meeting
his wife, Lady Middleton, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings and his
friend, the grave, quiet and gentlemanly Colonel Brandon. It soon
becomes apparent that Colonel Brandon is attracted to Marianne, and
Mrs. Jennings teases them about it. Marianne is not pleased as she
considers Colonel Brandon, at thirty-five, to be an old bachelor
incapable of falling in love, or inspiring love in anyone else.
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Marianne,
out for a walk, gets caught in the rain, slips and sprains her ankle.
The dashing, handsome John Willoughby sees the accident and assists
her. Marianne quickly comes to admire his good looks and outspoken
views on poetry, music, art and love. Mr. Willoughby's attentions are
so overt that Elinor and Mrs. Dashwood begin to suspect that the
couple are secretly engaged... (source: Wikipedia)</div>
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<b>About
the author:</b></h3>
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Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was
an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the
landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read
writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social
commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and
critics.
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Austen's
works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the
18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.
Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive
reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public,
and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a
great English writer. (source: Wikipedia)</div>
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Pride and
Prejudice is a novel by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>, first published in 1813. The
story follows the main character <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bennet" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Elizabeth Bennet">Elizabeth Bennet</a> as she deals with
issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in
the society of the landed gentry of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="19th century">early 19th-century</a> England.
Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman
living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near
London.
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Though the
story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a
fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of
"most loved books" such as <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Read" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Big Read">The Big Read</a>. It has become one
of the most popular novels in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English literature">English literature</a> and receives
considerable attention from literary scholars.
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The novel
centers on Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the five daughters of a
country gentleman. Mr Bennet is a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Book">bookish</a> man, and somewhat
neglectful of his responsibilities. Mrs Bennet is a woman lacking in
social graces and primarily concerned with finding suitable husbands
for her five daughters. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Pride and Prejudice">Jane Bennet</a>, the eldest daughter, is
distinguished by the kindness of her attitudes; Elizabeth Bennet, the
second daughter, shares her father's keen wit and occasionally
sarcastic outlook; Mary is studious, devout and aspires to be
musical; Kitty, the fourth sister follows where her younger sister
leads, while Lydia is flirtatious and unrestrained.
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narrative opens with news in the Bennet family that Mr Bingley, a
wealthy, charismatic and social young bachelor, is moving into
Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood. Mr Bingley is soon well
received, while his friend <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Darcy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Mr. Darcy">Mr Darcy</a> makes a less favorable first
impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they
attend (he detests dancing and is not much for light conversation).
Mr Bingley singles out Jane for particular attention, and it soon
becomes apparent that they have formed an attachment to each other,
though Jane does not alter her conduct for him, confessing her great
happiness only to Lizzie. By contrast, Darcy slights Elizabeth, who
overhears and jokes about it despite feeling a budding resentment.
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Jane Austen
(16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose
works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a
place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her
historical importance among scholars and critics.
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Austen's
works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the
18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.
Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive
reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Memoir_of_Jane_Austen" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="A Memoir of Jane Austen">A Memoir of Jane Austen</a> introduced her to a wider public,
and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a
great English writer.
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Peter and Wendy">Peter Pan;
or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up</a> or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's
most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel,
respectively. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a
mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island
of Neverland with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Darling" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Wendy Darling">Wendy Darling</a> and her brothers, the fairy Tinker
Bell, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Boys_%28Peter_Pan%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Lost Boys (Peter Pan)">the Lost Boys</a>, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Hook" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Captain Hook">Captain Hook</a>. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship
with the Llewelyn Davies family. Barrie continued to revise the play
for years after its debut; the novel reflects one version of the
story.
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The novel
was first published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United
Kingdom and Charles Scribner's Sons in the United States. The
original book contains a frontispiece and 11 half-tone plates by
artist F. D. Bedford (whose illustrations are still in copyright in
the EU). The novel was first abridged by May Byron in 1915, with
Barrie's permission, and published under the title Peter Pan and
Wendy, the first time this form was used. This version was later
illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell in 1921. The novel is now usually
published under that title or simply Peter Pan. The script of the
play, which Barrie had continued to revise since its first
performance, was published in 1928.
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Peter makes
night-time calls on the Darlings' house in Bloomsbury,[5] listening
in on Mrs. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Peter_Pan" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Characters of Peter Pan">Mary Darling</a>'s bedtime stories by the open window. One
night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses his
shadow. On returning to claim it, Peter wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy
Darling. Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter
learns that she knows lots of bedtime stories. He invites her to
Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys, children who
were lost in Kensington Gardens. Wendy agrees, and her brothers John
and Michael go along.
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Their
magical flight to Neverland is followed by many adventures. The
children are blown out of the air by a cannon and Wendy is nearly
killed by the Lost Boy Tootles. Peter and the Lost Boys build a
little house for Wendy to live in while she recuperates (a structure
that, to this day, is called a Wendy House.) Soon John and Michael
adopt the ways of the Lost Boys.
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Peter
welcomes Wendy to his underground home, and she immediately assumes
the role of mother figure. Peter takes the Darlings on several
adventures, the first truly dangerous one occurring at Mermaids'
Lagoon. At Mermaids' Lagoon, Peter and the Lost Boys save the
princess Tiger Lily and become involved in a battle with the pirates,
including the evil Captain Hook. Peter is wounded when Hook claws
him. He believes he will die, stranded on a rock when the tide is
rising, but he views death as "an awfully big adventure".
Luckily, a bird allows him to use her nest as a boat, and Peter sails
home... (source: Wikipedia)
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Barrie" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="J. M. Barrie">Sir James
Matthew Barrie</a>, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a
Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator
of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was
educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career
as a novelist and playwright. There he met the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llewelyn_Davies_boys" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Llewelyn Davies boys">Llewelyn Davies boys</a>
who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical
adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_White_Bird" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Little White Bird">The Little White Bird</a>),
then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy
play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy
who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play
quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to
write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with
popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.[1]
Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of
their parents. (source: Wikipedia)</div>
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Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel.
She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in
August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in
December that year (but dated 1818).</div>
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Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only
by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume
and published together, but also because both stories are set partly
in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted,
having lived there from 1801 to 1805.</div>
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More than eight years before the novel opens, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Elliot" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Anne Elliot">Anne
Elliot</a>, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted
a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer
Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but
poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir
Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved
older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining
that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family
estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of
Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement.</div>
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Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her
former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out
a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from
maritime victories in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic wars</a>. However, he has not
forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is
ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he
privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any
appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.<br />
(source: Wikipedia)</div>
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<b>About the author:</b></h3>
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Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
was an <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_novel" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English novel">English novelist</a> whose works of romantic fiction, set among
the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read
writers in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English literature">English literature</a>. Her realism, biting irony and social
commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and
critics.</div>
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Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility
of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition
to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic,
highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social
standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal
fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the
publication in 1869 of her nephew's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Memoir_of_Jane_Austen" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="A Memoir of Jane Austen">A Memoir of Jane Austen</a>
introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become
widely accepted in academia as a great English writer.<br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Moby-Dick">Moby-Dick;
or, The Whale</a>, is a novel by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a> first published in 1851.
It is considered to be one of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Great American Novel">Great American Novels</a>. The story
tells the adventures of wandering sailor <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28Moby-Dick%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Ishmael (Moby-Dick)">Ishmael</a>, and his voyage on
the whaleship <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequod_%28Moby-Dick%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Pequod (Moby-Dick)">Pequod</a>, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns
that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a
ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the
whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives
Ahab to take revenge.
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Moby-Dick
begins with the line "Call me Ishmael." According to the
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Book_Review" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="American Book Review">American Book Review</a>'s rating in 2011, this is one of the most
recognizable opening lines in Western literature.
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The
narrator, Ishmael, is an observant young man setting out from
Manhattan who has experience in the merchant marine but has recently
decided his next voyage will be on a whaling ship. On a cold, gloomy
night in December, he arrives at the Spouter-Inn in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, and agrees to share a bed with a then-absent stranger.
When his bunk mate, a heavily tattooed Polynesian harpooner named
Queequeg, returns very late and discovers Ishmael beneath his covers,
both men are alarmed, but the two quickly become close friends and
decide to sail together from Nantucket, Massachusetts, on a whaling
voyage.
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In
Nantucket, the pair signs on with the Pequod, a whaling ship that is
soon to leave port. The ship’s captain, Ahab, is nowhere to be
seen; nevertheless, they are told of him — a "grand, ungodly,
godlike man," who has "been in colleges as well as 'mong
the cannibals," according to one of the owners. The two friends
encounter a mysterious man named Elijah on the dock after they sign
their papers and he hints at troubles to come with Ahab. The mystery
grows on Christmas morning when Ishmael spots dark figures in the
mist, apparently boarding the Pequod shortly before it sets sail that
day.
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Some time
after sailing, Ahab finally appears on the quarter-deck one morning,
an imposing, frightening figure whose haunted visage sends shivers
over the narrator. One of his legs is missing from the knee down and
has been replaced by a prosthesis fashioned from a sperm whale's
jawbone.
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Soon
gathering the crewmen together, with a rousing speech Ahab secures
their support for his single, secret purpose for this voyage: hunting
down and killing Moby Dick, an old, very large sperm whale, with a
snow-white hump and mottled skin, that crippled Ahab on his last
whaling voyage.
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The mystery
of the dark figures seen before the Pequod set sail is explained
during the voyage's first lowering for whales. Ahab has secretly
brought along his own boat crew, including a mysterious harpooneer
named Fedallah (also referred to as 'the Parsee'), an inscrutable
figure with a sinister influence over Ahab. Later, while watching one
night over a captured whale carcass, Fedallah gives dark prophecies
to Ahab regarding their twin deaths... <br />
(source: Wikipedia)</div>
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<b>About
the author:</b></h4>
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Herman
Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American
writer best known for the novel Moby-Dick. His first three books
gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, became a
bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late
1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and
never recovered during his lifetime.
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When he
died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until
the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his
work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one
of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.
In 1919, the unfinished manuscript for his novella Billy Budd was
discovered by his first biographer, who published a version in 1924
which was acclaimed by notable British critics as another masterpiece
of Melville's. He was the first writer to have his works collected
and published by the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_America" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Library of America">Library of America</a>.. <br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%281998_film%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Les Misérables (1998 film)">Les
Misérables</a> is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first
published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of
the 19th century. In the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English language">English-speaking world</a>, the novel is usually
referred to by its original <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="French language">French title</a>, which has not been
successfully translated from French (attempts ranging from The
Miserable, The Wretched, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Les Misérables">The Miserable Ones</a>, The Poor Ones, The
Wretched Poor and The Victims, to The Dispossessed). Beginning in
1815 and culminating in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Rebellion" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="June Rebellion">1832 June Rebellion</a> in Paris, the novel
follows the lives and interactions of several characters, focusing on
the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of
redemption.
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The story
begins in 1815 in Digne, as the peasant Jean Valjean, just released
from 19 years' imprisonment in the galleys—five for stealing bread
for his starving sister and her family and fourteen more for numerous
escape attempts—is turned away by innkeepers because his yellow
passport marks him as a former convict. He sleeps on the street,
angry and bitter.
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Digne's
benevolent <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Myriel" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Bishop Myriel">Bishop Myriel</a> gives him shelter. At night, Valjean runs
off with Myriel's silverware. When the police capture Valjean, Myriel
pretends that he has given the silverware to Valjean and presses him
to take two silver candlesticks as well, as if he had forgotten to
take them. The police accept his explanation and leave. Myriel tells
Valjean that his life has been spared for God, that he should use the
silver candlesticks to make an honest man of himself.
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Valjean
broods over Myriel's words. When opportunity presents itself, purely
out of habit, he steals a 40-sous coin from 12-year-old Petit Gervais
and chases the boy away. He quickly repents and searches the city in
panic for Gervais. At the same time, his theft is reported to the
authorities. Valjean hides as they search for him, because if
apprehended he will be returned to the galleys for life as a repeat
offender...
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Victor Hugo">Victor
Marie Hugo</a> (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet,
novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered
one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's
literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his
novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry,
Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly
high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the
novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in
English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
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Jane Eyre
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English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847
by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%2C_Elder_%26_Co." rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Smith, Elder & Co.">Smith, Elder & Co.</a> of London, England.</div>
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It tells
the story of a plain governess (Jane) who, after early life
difficulties, falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester. They
marry, but only after Rochester's insane first wife (of whom Jane
initially had no knowledge) dies in a dramatic house fire. In its
internalization of the action — the focus is on the gradual
unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the
events are colored by a heightened intensity that was previously the
domain of poetry — the novel revolutionized the art of fiction.
Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private
consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and
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The novel
begins with the titular character Jane Eyre living with her maternal
uncle's family, the Reeds, as her uncle's dying wish. The novel
starts when Jane is ten years old and several years after her parents
died of typhus. Mr. Reed was the only one in the Reed family to be
kind to Jane. Jane’s aunt Sarah Reed does not like her, treats her
worse than a servant and discourages and, at times, forbids her
children from associating with Jane. Mrs. Reed and her three children
are abusive to Jane, both physically and emotionally. The servant
Bessie proves to be Jane's only ally in the household even though
Bessie sometimes harshly scolds Jane. Excluded from the family
activities, Jane is incredibly unhappy with only a doll and
occasionally books in which to find solace. One day, Jane is locked
in the red room, where her uncle died, and panics after seeing
visions of him. She is finally rescued when she is allowed to attend
Lowood School for Girls, after the physician Mr. Lloyd convinces Mrs.
Reed to send Jane away. Before Jane leaves, she confronts Mrs. Reed
and declares that she'll never call her "aunt" again, that
Mrs. Reed and her daughters, Georgiana, and Eliza are deceitful and
that she'd tell everyone at Lowood how cruelly Mrs. Reed treated
her... (source: Wikipedia)</div>
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Charlotte
Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and
poet, the eldest of the three <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bront%C3%AB_family" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Brontë family">Brontë sisters</a> who survived into
adulthood, whose novels are <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English literature">English literature</a> standards. She wrote
Jane Eyre under the pen name <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Charlotte Brontë">Currer Bell</a>.
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Speculation
about the identity of Currer Bell and whether the author was male or
female heightened with the publication of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB%27s_Wuthering_Heights" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights">Emily Brontë's Wuthering
Heights</a> by "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Emily Brontë">Ellis Bell</a>" and Anne Brontë's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Grey" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Agnes Grey">Agnes Grey</a> by
"<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Anne Brontë">Acton Bell</a>".<br />
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Accompanying the speculation was a change in
the critical reaction to Charlotte's work and accusations were made
that the writing was "coarse", a judgment more readily made
once it was suspected that "Currer Bell" was a woman.
However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have
increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an
'improper' book. (source: Wikipedia)</div>
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Heart of Darkness">Heart of
Darkness</a> (1899), by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Joseph Conrad">Joseph Conrad</a>, is a short novel about <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Marlow" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Charles Marlow">Charles
Marlow</a>’s job as an ivory transporter down the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Congo River">Congo River</a> in
Central Africa. This river is described to be “... a mighty big
river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake
uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar
over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.”
In the course of his commercial-agent work in Africa, the seaman
Marlow becomes obsessed by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtz_%28Heart_of_Darkness%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)">Mr. Kurtz</a>, an ivory-procurement agent, a
man of established notoriety among the natives and the European
colonials.<br />
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Aboard the
Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravesend%2C_Kent" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Gravesend, Kent">Gravesend, England</a>, Charles
Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his
appointment as captain of a river-steamboat for an ivory trading
company. He describes his passage on ships to the wilderness to the
Company's station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation:
disorganized, machinery parts here and there, periodic demolition
explosions, weakened native black men who have been demoralized, in
chains, literally being worked to death, and strolling behind them a
white Company man in a uniform carrying a rifle.
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Marlow
leaves with a caravan to travel on foot some two hundred miles deeper
into the wilderness to the Central Station, where the steamboat that
he is to captain is based. Marlow is shocked to learn that his
steamboat had been wrecked two days before his arrival. The manager
explains that they needed to take the steamboat up-river because of
rumours that an important station was in jeopardy and that its chief,
Mr. Kurtz, was ill. Marlow describes the Company men at this station
as lazy back-biting "pilgrims", fraught with envy and
jealousy, all trying to gain a higher status within the Company,
which in turn, would provide more personal profit; however, they
sought these goals in a meaningless, ineffective and lazy manner,
mixed with a sense that they were all merely waiting, while trying to
stay out of harm's way. After fishing his boat out of the river,
Marlow is frustrated by the months spent on repairs.<br />
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Once
underway, the journey up-river to the Inner Station, Kurtz's station,
takes two months to the day. On board are the manager, three or four
"pilgrims" and some twenty "cannibals" enlisted
as crew.<br />
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They come
to rest for the night about eight miles below the Inner Station. In
the morning they awake to find that they are enveloped by a thick,
white fog. From the riverbank they hear a very loud cry, followed by
a discordant clamour. A few hours later, as safe navigation becomes
increasingly difficult, the steamboat is hit with a barrage of
sticks—small arrows—from the wilderness. The pilgrims open fire
into the bush with their <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_rifle" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Winchester rifle">Winchester rifles</a>. The native serving as
helmsman gives up steering to pick up a rifle and fire it. Marlow
grabs the wheel to avoid snags in the river. The helmsman is impaled
by a spear and falls at Marlow's feet... <br />
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<b>About
the author:</b>
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Joseph
Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish author who
wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British
nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is
regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did
not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and
always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with
a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the
midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who
brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="English literature">English
literature</a>.<br />
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Writing in
the heyday of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>, Conrad drew on his native Poland's
national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French
and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that
reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while plumbing the
depths of the human soul. <br />
(source: Wikipedia)<br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Gulliver's Travels">Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World</a>.
In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a
Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels
(1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of
the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's
best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.<br />
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The book became popular as soon as it was
published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is
universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery."
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During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore
after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny
people, less than 6 inches tall, who are inhabitants of the island
country of Lilliput. After giving assurances of his good behavior, he
is given a residence in Lilliput and becomes a favorite of the court.
From there, the book follows Gulliver's observations on the Court of
Lilliput. He is also given the permission to roam around the city on
a condition that he must not harm their subjects. Gulliver assists
the Lilliputians to subdue their neighbors, the Blefuscudians, by
stealing their fleet. However, he refuses to reduce the island nation
of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Lilliput and Blefuscu">Blefuscu</a> to a province of Lilliput, displeasing the King and the
court.<br />
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Gulliver is charged with treason for, among other "crimes",
"making water" in the capital (even though he was putting
out a fire and saving countless lives.) He is convicted and sentenced
to be blinded, but with the assistance of a kind friend, he escapes
to Blefuscu...
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(source: Wikipedia)
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<b>About the author:</b>
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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October
1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer
(first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who
became <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deans_of_St._Patrick%27s_Cathedral%2C_Dublin" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin">Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin</a>.<br />
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He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's
Travels, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="A Modest Proposal">A Modest Proposal</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Journal_to_Stella" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="A Journal to Stella">A Journal to Stella</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapier%27s_Letters" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Drapier's Letters">Drapier's Letters</a>,
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Books" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Battle of the Books">The Battle of the Books</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Argument_Against_Abolishing_Christianity" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity">An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity</a>,
and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in
the English language,gulliver and is less well known for
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Great
Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is the second
novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first
person. Great Expectations is a coming-of-age novel, and it is a
classic work of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_literature" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Victorian literature">Victorian literature</a>. It depicts the growth and
personal development of an orphan named Pip. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Novel">The novel</a> was first
published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Year_Round" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="All the Year Round">All the Year
Round</a>, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.<br />
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On
Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years
old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while
visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict
scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles,
from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind,
passive husband <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Great Expectations">Joe Gargery</a>, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers
recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another
convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they
escaped.<br />
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Havisham" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Miss Havisham">Miss
Havisham</a>, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives
in the dilapidated <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satis_House" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Satis House">Satis House</a>, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook"
(who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted
daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with
whom he falls in love, with Miss Havisham's encouragement. Pip visits
Miss Havisham multiple times, and during one of these visits, he
brings Joe along. During their absence, Joe's wife is attacked by a
mysterious individual and lives out the rest of her life as a mute
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Later, when
Pip is a young apprentice at Joe's blacksmith shop, a lawyer, Mr.
Jaggers, approaches him and tells him he is to receive a large sum of
money from an anonymous benefactor and must immediately leave for
London, where he is to become a gentleman...
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<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Charles Dickens">Charles
John Huffam Dickens</a> (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English
writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most
memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the
greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works
enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary
genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels
and short stories continue to be widely popular.<br />
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Dickens was
regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A
Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential works ever written,
and it remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every
artistic genre. His creative genius has been praised by fellow
writers—from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a> to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>—for
its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterizations, and
social criticism.
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<b>About this book: </b>
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Frankenstein;
or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about
eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque
creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started
writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published
when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously
in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition,
published in France in 1823.<br />
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Shelley had
traveled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes
place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas
were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her
future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream.
Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a
competition to see who could write the best horror story. After
thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be,
Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified
by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein.<br />
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The novel
Frankenstein is written in epistolary form, documenting a
correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret
Walton Saville. Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the
North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving
fame. During the voyage the crew spots a dog sled mastered by a
gigantic figure. A few hours later, the crew rescues a nearly frozen
and emaciated man named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein has been in
pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton's crew. Frankenstein
starts to recover from his exertion; he sees in Walton the same
over-ambitiousness and recounts a story of his life's miseries to
Walton as a warning.<br />
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Victor
begins by telling of his childhood. Born into a wealthy family in
Geneva, he is encouraged to seek a greater understanding of the world
around him through science. He grows up in a safe environment,
surrounded by loving family and friends. When he is four years old,
his parents adopt Elizabeth Lavenza, an orphan whose mother has just
died. Victor has a possessive infatuation with Elizabeth. Much of the
story focuses on this infatuation and the rise and fall of their
interactions. He has two younger brothers: Ernest and William.<br />
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As a young
boy, Victor is obsessed with studying outdated theories of science
that focus on achieving natural wonders. When he witnesses lightning
strike an oak tree, splitting it in two, he is inspired to harness
the power of lightning. His mother dies of scarlet fever weeks before
he leaves for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ingolstadt" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="University of Ingolstadt">University of Ingolstadt</a> in Germany. At university,
he excels at chemistry and other sciences, and develops a secret
technique to imbue inanimate bodies with life... <br />
(source:
Wikipedia)<br />
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<b>About the author: </b>
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Mary
Shelley (née <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Mary Shelley">Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin</a>; 30 August 1797 – 1
February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer,
dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for
her <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic novel</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Frankenstein">Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus</a> (1818). She
also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet
and philosopher <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>. Her father was the political
philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and
feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.<br />
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In 1816,
the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Polidori" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="John William Polidori">John William
Polidori</a>, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary
conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left
Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died
before Mary Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child,
Percy Florence. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat
sank during a storm in the Bay of La Spezia. A year later, Mary
Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the
upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author.
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(source: Wikipedia)<br />
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