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Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz - classic fiction"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#wizard-of-oz\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDid you know this wonderful story became a success after it became a play?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NouYlZo8xuo?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Knqm5MNtdD0\/UfLuaNmp2DI\/AAAAAAAAJJQ\/ZK9Nf7MUFdk\/s1600\/SM-wizard-of-oz.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Knqm5MNtdD0\/UfLuaNmp2DI\/AAAAAAAAJJQ\/ZK9Nf7MUFdk\/s400\/SM-wizard-of-oz.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout this book: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz\"\u003EThe\nWonderful Wizard of Oz\u003C\/a\u003E is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum\nand illustrated by \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Wallace_Denslow\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"William Wallace Denslow\"\u003EW. W. Denslow\u003C\/a\u003E. Originally published by the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_M._Hill_Company\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"George M. Hill Company\"\u003EGeorge\nM. Hill Company\u003C\/a\u003E in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been\nreprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz,\nwhich is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the\nwell-known 1939 film adaptation. The story chronicles the adventures\nof a young girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz, after being swept\naway from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone. The novel is one of the\nbest-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely\ntranslated. Its initial success, and the success of the 1902 Broadway\nmusical which Baum adapted from his original story, led to Baum's\nwriting thirteen more Oz books. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nDorothy is\na young orphaned girl raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the\nbleak landscape of a Kansas farm. She has a little black dog Toto,\nwho is her sole source of happiness on the dry, gray prairies. One\nday the farmhouse, with Dorothy and Toto inside, is caught up in a\ncyclone and deposited in a field in Munchkin Country, the eastern\nquadrant of the Land of Oz. The falling house kills the evil ruler of\nthe Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the East. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nThe \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Good_Witch_of_the_North\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Good Witch of the North\"\u003EGood\nWitch of the North\u003C\/a\u003E comes with the Munchkins to greet Dorothy and\ngives Dorothy the Silver Shoes (believed to have magical properties)\nthat the Wicked Witch had been wearing when she was killed. In order\nto return to Kansas, the Good Witch of the North tells Dorothy that\nshe will have to go to the \"Emerald City\" or \"City of\nEmeralds\" and ask the Wizard of Oz to help her. Before she\nleaves, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead,\ngiving her magical protection from trouble. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nOn her way\ndown the road of yellow bricks, Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the\npole he is hanging on, restores the movements of the rusted \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tin_Woodman\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tin Woodman\"\u003ETin\nWoodman\u003C\/a\u003E with an oil can, and encourages them and the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cowardly_Lion\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cowardly Lion\"\u003ECowardly Lion\u003C\/a\u003E to\njourney with her and Toto to the Emerald City. The Scarecrow wants to\nget a brain, the Tin Woodman a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, courage.\nAll four of the travelers believe that the Wizard can solve their\ntroubles. The party finds many adventures on their journey together,\nincluding overcoming obstacles such as narrow pieces of the yellow\nbrick road, vicious Kalidahs, a river, and the Deadly Poppies. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nWhen the\ntravelers arrive at the Emerald City, they are asked to wear green\nspectacles by the Guardian of the Gates as long as they remain in the\ncity. The four are the first to ever successfully meet with the\nWizard. When each traveler meets with the Wizard, he appears each\ntime as someone or something different. To Dorothy, the Wizard is a\ngiant head; the Scarecrow sees a beautiful woman; the Tin Woodman\nsees a terrible beast; the Cowardly Lion sees a ball of fire. The\nWizard agrees to help each of them—but only if one of them kills\nthe \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wicked_Witch_of_the_West\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wicked Witch of the West\"\u003EWicked Witch of the West\u003C\/a\u003E who rules over the western Winkie\nCountry. The Guardian of the Gates warns them that no one has ever\nmanaged to harm the very cunning and cruel Wicked Witch... (source:\nWikipedia) \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout\nthe author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L._Frank_Baum\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"L. Frank Baum\"\u003ELyman Frank\nBaum\u003C\/a\u003E (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of\nchildren's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.\nHe wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a\nhost of other works (55 novels in total, plus four \"lost\"\nnovels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of\nscripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts\nto bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated\nsuch century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality,\nlaptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of\nOz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the\nCountry), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (\u003Ca 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\"\u003EAunt Jane's\nNieces at Work\u003C\/a\u003E). (source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThis\nwas created by popular request to enable any beginning or established\nauthor to improve their skills by studying quality editions of\nclassic bestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch4 class=\"zemanta-related-title\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/howtobeadistributor.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/how-a-study-of-fiction-bestsellers-teach-business-savvy.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188516444_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/howtobeadistributor.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/how-a-study-of-fiction-bestsellers-teach-business-savvy.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHow a Study of Fiction Bestsellers Teach Business Savvy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/JM-barrie-peter-pan-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058194_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/JM-barrie-peter-pan-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJ. 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It bulldozed a path more than a hal...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/edge.ua.edu\/russell-mccutcheon\/whats-in-a-name\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhat's in a Name? | Culture on the Edge\u003C\/a\u003E - If you listen to the tail end of any NPR report, you'll hear the correspondent sign off, such as the 5:05 point of this recent story she did on a new Wizard of Oz movie. In her case, the trilled R gives it away, along with so much\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2009\/05\/23\/whats_with_the\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhat's with the academia bashing? « Statistical Modeling, Causal ...\u003C\/a\u003E - There's an extensive debate in academia about the allegorical nature of Oz. Googling for \u003Csite: .edu=\"\" of=\"\" oz=\"\" wizard=\"\"\u003E is illuminating. For instance, you can combine econ and lit crit in poli sci journals (e.g. 'The \"Wizard of Oz\" as a\u0026nbsp;...\u003C\/site:\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.voxmagazine.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/literary-witches\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELiterary witches - Vox Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E - Wicked, a novel turned hit Broadway play, is a novel from the opposite perspective of The Wizard of Oz, but the ruby slippers, flying monkeys and Munchkins are still present and accounted for. Although the novel clearly\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/madisonfloridavoice.net\/?p=35715\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ENFCC Community Theatre presents The Wizard of Oz Saturday, Aug ...\u003C\/a\u003E - Local stars, students and community members star in this timeless production. MADISON, FL — North Florida Community College's Community Theatre presents The Wizard of Oz Saturday, Aug. 10 at Van H. 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The\nwork is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important\nworks of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary\nachievement, along with his other major prose work \u003Ca 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 \u0026amp; Noble Classics)\"\u003EAnna Karenina\u003C\/a\u003E\n(1873–1877).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nTolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of\nWar and Peace that it was \"not a novel, even less is it a poem,\nand still less a historical chronicle\". Large sections of the\nwork, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion\nrather than narrative. He went on to elaborate that the best \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_literature\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Russian literature\"\u003ERussian\nliterature\u003C\/a\u003E does not conform to standard norms and hence hesitated to\ncall War and Peace a novel. (Instead, Tolstoy regarded Anna Karenina\nas his first true novel.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThe novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg,\nat a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer—the maid of honour and\nconfidante to the queen mother Maria Feodorovna. Many of the main\ncharacters and aristocratic families in the novel are introduced as\nthey enter Anna Pavlovna's salon. Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov\nis the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, an elderly man who is\ndying after a series of strokes. Pierre is about to become embroiled\nin a struggle for his inheritance. Educated abroad at his father's\nexpense following his mother's death, Pierre is essentially\nkindhearted, but socially awkward, and owing in part to his open,\nbenevolent nature, finds it difficult to integrate into Petersburg\nsociety. It is known to everyone at the soirée that Pierre is his\nfather's favorite of all the old count’s illegitimate children.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nAlso attending the soireé is Pierre's friend, the\nintelligent and sardonic \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrei_Nikolayevich_Bolkonsky\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky\"\u003EPrince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky\u003C\/a\u003E,\nhusband of Lise, the charming society favourite. Finding Petersburg\nsociety unctuous and disillusioned with married life after\ndiscovering his wife is empty and superficial, Prince Andrei makes\nthe fateful choice to be an aide-de-camp to Prince Mikhail\nIlarionovich Kutuzov in the coming war against Napoleon.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThe plot moves to Moscow, Russia's ancient city\nand former capital, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to\nthe highly mannered society of Petersburg. The Rostov family are\nintroduced. Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov has four adolescent\nchildren. Thirteen-year-old Natasha (Natalia Ilyinichna) believes\nherself in love with Boris Drubetskoy, a disciplined young man who is\nabout to join the army as an officer. Twenty-year-old Nikolai Ilyich\npledges his love to Sonya (Sofia Alexandrovna), his fifteen-year-old\ncousin, an orphan who has been brought up by the Rostovs. The eldest\nchild of the Rostov family, Vera Ilyinichna, is cold and somewhat\nhaughty but has a good prospective marriage in a Russian-German\nofficer, Adolf Karlovich Berg. Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) is nine and the\nyoungest of the Rostov family; like his brother, he is impetuous and\neager to join the army when of age. The heads of the family, Count\nIlya Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova, are an affectionate couple\nbut forever worried about their disordered finances.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nAt Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' country estate,\nPrince Andrei departs for war and leaves his terrified, pregnant wife\nLise with his eccentric father Prince Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky\nand devoutly religious sister Maria Nikolayevna\nBolkonskaya...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch4\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Tolstoy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Leo Tolstoy\"\u003ECount Lev Nikolayevich\nTolstoy\u003C\/a\u003E (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7\nNovember] 1910), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who\nprimarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also\nwrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated\nand paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic\nviews, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening\nin the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and\nsocial reformer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nHis literal interpretation of the ethical\nteachings of Jesus, centering on the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sermon_on_the_Mount\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sermon on the Mount\"\u003ESermon on the Mount\u003C\/a\u003E, caused him\nin later life to become a fervent \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_anarchism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Christian anarchism\"\u003EChristian anarchist\u003C\/a\u003E and\nanarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in\nsuch works as \u003Ca 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\"\u003EThe Kingdom of God Is Within You\u003C\/a\u003E, were to have a\nprofound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi\"\u003EMohandas\nGandhi\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr.\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Martin Luther King, Jr.\"\u003EMartin Luther King, Jr.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers'\nClub: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\nThis was created by\npopular request to enable any beginning or established author to\nimprove their skills by studying quality editions of classic\nbestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch4 class=\"zemanta-related-title\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188411349_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhy study classic fiction? To improve your real-world results.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523390_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA year's worth of Classic Fiction to Study - and Entertain...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/sun-tzus-art-of-war-classic-non-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/noimg_40_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/sun-tzus-art-of-war-classic-non-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESun Tzu's Art of War - classic non-fiction study\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058197_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ruvr.co.uk\/2013_06_20\/Tolstoy-archives-online-Fyokla\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/178870893_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ruvr.co.uk\/2013_06_20\/Tolstoy-archives-online-Fyokla\/\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EComplete Tolstoy archives to be put online\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=a0b3a847-39e3-4a46-aa4c-41f3ee5ef2c1\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/artworks.arts.gov\/?p=17424\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EArt Talk with NEA Literature Translation Fellow George O'Connell ...\u003C\/a\u003E - As long as I'm including by omission, let's also leave out the King James Bible, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the treasure-house of Proust. Of course this is to say nothing of the great Chinese and Japanese classical poets,\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/qwiklit.com\/2013\/05\/14\/20-great-russian-novels-you-should-read-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E20 Great Russian Novels You Should Read Right Now | Qwiklit\u003C\/a\u003E - Lev Tolstoy - War and Peace (1863-1869). The Great White Whale of Russian literature, War and Peace is a 1,300 page work that includes hundreds of subplots and characters all intertwining during the failed Napoleonic\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/jaltranslation.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/26\/a-look-at-l3-from-tolstoy-to-trays\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA look at L3 from Tolstoy to trays. - jaltranslation\u003C\/a\u003E - is that of Tolstoy's War and Peace - a literary buff's favourite - commenting upon the use of French in the Russian original. It is estimated that 2 percent of the entire book is in French, and it is used in order to reflect the\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.williams.edu\/feature-stories\/winter-study-reading-for-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWinter Study: Reading for Life | Williams College\u003C\/a\u003E - So when the opportunity presented itself to read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace-all 1,296 pages of it-during Winter Study in January, Yniguez jumped at the chance. She and 14 other students are taking part in the class \"War and Peace,\" led\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ttahko.net\/2012\/book-review-leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETTahko.net | Book Review: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace\u003C\/a\u003E - Before I get started, I should note that book reviews - at least when it comes to fiction - have not featured and probably will not feature prominently on this blog. However, I've noticed that the blog's 'Literature' category\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogs.libraries.iub.edu\/metadata\/2013\/06\/04\/viaf-news\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVIAF News | Metadata Discussion Group - IUB Libraries Blogs\u003C\/a\u003E - OCLC colleagues Smith-Yoshimura and Janifer Gatenby collaborate to illustrate how uniform titles show the romanization of titles rather than the original script of the work and use Tolstoy's War and Peace as an example.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wp.chs.harvard.edu\/chs-fellows\/2013\/08\/02\/the-oresteia-and-waterloo\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Oresteia and Waterloo | CHS Research Bulletin\u003C\/a\u003E - [5] This approach differs from novels such as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme, both of which situate their main character in the midst of the fighting, as well novels such as George Eliot's Adam\u0026nbsp;..."},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#war-and-peace","title":"Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - classic fiction"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/feeds\/7700895080450207511\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace-classic.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/7700895080450207511"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/7700895080450207511"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace-classic.html","title":"Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - classic fiction"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"robertworstell"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16109419616754661835"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mQ8ep3gLqCU\/UfLuZjxYOmI\/AAAAAAAAJJM\/JpfO47eLGvM\/s72-c\/SM-war-and-peace02.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-8598379731990175990"},"published":{"$t":"2013-08-08T17:09:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-08-08T17:09:19.386-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bestseller"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"classic fiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"masterpiece"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Robert Louis Stevenson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Treasure Island"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Wikipedia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"writers' club"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"writing"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island - classic fiction"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#treasure-island\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhy this rousing adventure is also one of the most filmed and produced of all the best books...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uQi2EB6XGCI?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Bb17b070R4o\/UfLuZCfegDI\/AAAAAAAAJJE\/QMqgbjbpZLY\/s1600\/SM-treasure-island.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island - classic fiction\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Bb17b070R4o\/UfLuZCfegDI\/AAAAAAAAJJE\/QMqgbjbpZLY\/s400\/SM-treasure-island.jpg\" title=\"Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island - classic fiction\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout\nthis book:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\nTreasure\nIsland is an adventure novel by British author Robert Louis\nStevenson, narrating a tale of \"buccaneers and buried gold\".\nFirst published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally\nserialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82\nunder the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with\nStevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\nTraditionally\nconsidered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure\ntale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a\nwry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John\nSilver — unusual for children's literature now and then. It is one\nof the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of\nTreasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous,\nincluding treasure maps marked with an \"X\", schooners, \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Spot_%28Treasure_Island%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Black Spot (Treasure Island)\"\u003Ethe\nBlack Spot\u003C\/a\u003E, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots\non their shoulders. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\nJames \"Jim\"\nHawkins is the young son of the owners of the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treasure_Island\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Treasure Island\"\u003EAdmiral Benbow\u003C\/a\u003E Inn. An\nold drunken seaman named \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billy_Bones\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Billy Bones\"\u003EBilly Bones\u003C\/a\u003E becomes a long-term lodger at\nthe inn, only paying for about the first week of his stay. Jim\nquickly realizes that Bones is in hiding, and that he particularly\ndreads meeting an unidentified seafaring man with one leg. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\nSome months\nlater, Bones is visited by a mysterious sailor named Black Dog. Their\nmeeting turns violent, Black Dog flees and Bones suffers a stroke.\nWhile Jim cares for him, Bones confesses that he was once the mate of\nthe late notorious pirate, \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_Flint\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Captain Flint\"\u003ECaptain Flint\u003C\/a\u003E, and that his old crewmates\nwant Bones' sea chest. Some time later, another of Bones' crew mates,\na blind man named Pew, appears at the inn and forces Jim to lead him\nto Bones. Pew gives Bones a paper. After Pew leaves, Bones opens the\npaper to discover it is marked with the Black Spot, a pirate summons,\nwith the warning that he has until ten o'clock to meet their demands.\nBones drops dead of apoplexy (in this context, a stroke) on the spot.\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\nJim and his\nmother open Bones' sea chest to collect the amount due to them for\nBones' room and board, but before they can count out the money that\nthey are owed, they hear pirates approaching the inn and are forced\nto flee and hide, Jim taking with him a mysterious oilskin packet\nfrom the chest. The pirates, led by Pew, find the sea chest and the\nmoney, but are frustrated that there is no sign of \"Flint's\nfist\". Customs men approach and the pirates escape to their\nvessel (all except for Pew, who is accidentally run down and killed\nby the agents' horses). \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\nJim takes\nthe mysterious oilskin packet to Dr. Livesey, as he is a \"gentleman\nand a magistrate\", and he, \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Squire_Trelawney\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Squire Trelawney\"\u003ESquire Trelawney\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Hawkins_%28character%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jim Hawkins (character)\"\u003EJim Hawkins\u003C\/a\u003E\nexamine it together, finding it contains a logbook detailing the\ntreasure looted during Captain Flint's career, and a detailed map of\nan island with the location of Flint's treasure marked on it...\n(source: Wikipedia) \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout\nthe author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Robert Louis Stevenson\"\u003ERobert\nLouis Balfour Stevenson\u003C\/a\u003E (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a\nScottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous\nworks are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and \u003Ca 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\"\u003EStrange Case of Dr Jekyll\nand Mr Hyde\u003C\/a\u003E. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\nA literary\ncelebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most\ntranslated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many\nother writers, including \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jorge_Luis_Borges\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jorge Luis Borges\"\u003EJorge Luis Borges\u003C\/a\u003E, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur\nConan Doyle, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack\nLondon, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who\nsaid of him that he \"seemed to pick the right word up on the\npoint of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.\" (source:\nWikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThis was created\nby popular request to enable any beginning or established author to\nimprove their skills by studying quality editions of classic\nbestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch4 class=\"zemanta-related-title\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/farmwebdesign.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/27\/bestseller-classic-fiction-publishing\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188604076_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/farmwebdesign.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/27\/bestseller-classic-fiction-publishing\/\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESelf-Publishing News: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058197_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/alexander-dumas-count-monte-cristo-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/noimg_24_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/alexander-dumas-count-monte-cristo-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAlexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo - classic fiction\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/JM-barrie-peter-pan-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058194_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/JM-barrie-peter-pan-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJ. M. Barrie's Peter Pan - classic fiction selection\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-sense-sensibility-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/noimg_47_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-sense-sensibility-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Sense and Sensibility - classic fiction\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=a0b3a847-39e3-4a46-aa4c-41f3ee5ef2c1\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bigreadblog.arts.gov\/?p=5705\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELiterary Challenge Accepted: 30+ Books to Read Before 30 « The ...\u003C\/a\u003E - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Reef by Edith Wharton Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2013\/07\/31\/treasure-island-music-festival-lineup-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETreasure Island Music Festival Daily Lineup Announced « CBS San ...\u003C\/a\u003E - The daily lineup for this year's Treasure Island Music Festival was announced with headliners Atoms for Peace on Saturday and Beck to perform on Sunday...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sfappeal.com\/2013\/08\/morning-outage-leaves-all-of-treasure-island-without-power\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EMorning Outage Leaves All Of Treasure Island Without Power\u003C\/a\u003E - All of Treasure Island is without power this morning, a spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/enewsletter.catawbacountync.gov\/library\/?p=1971\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ENews from the library - Catawba County Government Library ...\u003C\/a\u003E - July 13-\"The Hobbitt\" July 20-\"Treasure Island\" July 27-\"Jurassic Park\" Aug. 3-\"Ice Age: Dawn of Dinosaurs\" Aug. 10-\"Bugs Bunny\". For more information, contact Richard Griffin, Youth Services librarian, at 465-8668.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/newsfix\/2013\/07\/26\/104781\/-bay-bridge-gridlock-suspicious-device\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBay Bridge Traffic Snarl After Suspicious Device Found at Treasure ...\u003C\/a\u003E - Update 3:50 p.m. The suspicious device found on the Treasure Island off-ramp of the Bay Bridge this afternoon has been moved, according to a California Highway Patrol spokesman. The device was found on one of the\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/expat-almanac.com\/2013\/07\/19\/treasure-island\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETreasure Island | The Expat Almanac\u003C\/a\u003E - Treasure Island (Elafonissi) was once used by pirates, but the pirates have all moved to Somalia, and Elafonisi (modern spelling) really isn't an island any more – it's an outcropping of the mainland connected by a strip of sand\u0026nbsp;..."},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#treasure-island","title":"Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island - classic fiction"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/feeds\/8598379731990175990\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/robert-lewis-stevenson-treasure-island-classic-fiction.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/8598379731990175990"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/8598379731990175990"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/robert-lewis-stevenson-treasure-island-classic-fiction.html","title":"Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island - classic fiction"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"robertworstell"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16109419616754661835"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Bb17b070R4o\/UfLuZCfegDI\/AAAAAAAAJJE\/QMqgbjbpZLY\/s72-c\/SM-treasure-island.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-606324573717308893"},"published":{"$t":"2013-08-08T16:47:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-08-08T16:47:22.612-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bestseller"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"classic fiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"H. 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Well's Time Machine - classic fiction"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#time-machine\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHow does Sci-Fi have only two on the top best books list?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9miqKm0aB0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2au7l8htpWU\/UfLuY080swI\/AAAAAAAAJI0\/Tb2leWRUEcM\/s1600\/SM-time-machine.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"H. G. Wells Time Machine - a Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-2au7l8htpWU\/UfLuY080swI\/AAAAAAAAJI0\/Tb2leWRUEcM\/s400\/SM-time-machine.jpg\" title=\"H. G. Wells Time Machine - a Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout\nthis book:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nThe Time\nMachine is a science fiction novella by \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._G._Wells\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"H. G. Wells\"\u003EH. G. Wells\u003C\/a\u003E, published in\n1895 and later adapted into two feature films of the same name, as\nwell as two television versions, and a large number of comic book\nadaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in\nmany media. This story is generally credited with the popularisation\nof the concept of \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_travel\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Time travel\"\u003Etime travel\u003C\/a\u003E using a vehicle that allows an operator\nto travel purposefully and selectively. The term \"time machine\",\ncoined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.\nThis work is an early example of the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dying_Earth_%28subgenre%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dying Earth (subgenre)\"\u003EDying Earth subgenre\u003C\/a\u003E. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nThe book's\nprotagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in\nRichmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Time_Machine\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Time Machine\"\u003Ethe Time\nTraveller\u003C\/a\u003E. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his\nweekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his\ndemonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it.\nHe reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person,\nand returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable\ntale, becoming the new narrator. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nIn the new\nnarrative, the Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that\ntakes him to 802,701 A.D., where he meets the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eloi\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eloi\"\u003EEloi\u003C\/a\u003E, a society of\nsmall, elegant, childlike adults. They live in small communities\nwithin large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings, doing\nno work and having a frugivorous diet. His efforts to communicate\nwith them are hampered by their lack of curiosity or discipline, and\nhe speculates that they are a peaceful communist society, the result\nof humanity conquering nature with technology, and subsequently\nevolving to adapt to an environment in which strength and intellect\nare no longer advantageous to survival. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nReturning\nto the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller is shocked to find\nhis time machine missing, and eventually works out that it has been\ndragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure with heavy\ndoors, locked from the inside, which resembles a Sphinx. (source:\nWikipedia) \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout\nthe author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nHerbert\nGeorge \"H. G.\" Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)\nwas an English writer, now best known for his work in the science\nfiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres,\nincluding contemporary novels, history, politics and social\ncommentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is\none person sometimes called \"The Father of Science Fiction\",\nas are \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_Verne\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jules Verne\"\u003EJules Verne\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_Gernsback\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hugo Gernsback\"\u003EHugo Gernsback\u003C\/a\u003E. His most notable science\nfiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The\nInvisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. (source: Wikipedia) \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThis\nwas created by popular request to enable any beginning or established\nauthor to improve their skills by studying quality editions of\nclassic bestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Articles\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/howtobeadistributor.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/update-new-writers-club-selection-make-money-with-bestselling-classics.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188602803_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; 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display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/alexander-dumas-count-monte-cristo-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAlexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo - classic fiction\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/JM-barrie-peter-pan-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058194_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; 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G. Wells's time machine,[17] and instead invests in the subjective human\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.academyofcoutureart.edu\/2012\/06\/27\/academy-of-couture-art-le-reve-gala-celebrates-next-generation-of-haute-couture\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAcademy of Couture Art Le Reve Gala cele...\u003C\/a\u003E - ... couture designers including the beautiful star of Tim Burton's \"Planet of the Ape's\" Miss Estella Warren; the stunning leading lady of Simon Wells' \"Time Machine\" and multi-award winning recording artist Samantha Mumba;\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/2012\/08\/virility-agonistes\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVirility Agonistes « The Hooded Utilitarian\u003C\/a\u003E - Isn't Wells' time machine essentially the same-.the time traveller is the only rugged\/virile man in the future-because technology has made competition largely irrelevant (?)-(Or so it seems-until the rugged, working class,\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bigreadblog.arts.gov\/?p=6519\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Cigar Art Box Project « The Big Read Blog\u003C\/a\u003E - H.G. 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Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#hound-baskervilles\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhere classic fiction introduces immortal characters.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L1a0qENQKr8?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-YD1u9VQy-Sc\/UfLuUbbdELI\/AAAAAAAAJHU\/bdku1jL7HHE\/s1600\/SM-hound-of-the-baskervilles.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-YD1u9VQy-Sc\/UfLuUbbdELI\/AAAAAAAAJHU\/bdku1jL7HHE\/s400\/SM-hound-of-the-baskervilles.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout this book: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nThe Hound\nof the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by\nSir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sherlock_Holmes\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sherlock Holmes\"\u003ESherlock Holmes\u003C\/a\u003E.\nOriginally serialised in \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Strand_Magazine\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Strand Magazine\"\u003EThe Strand Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E from August 1901 to\nApril 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West\nCountry and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the\nlegend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.\nSherlock Holmes and his companion \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Watson\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dr. Watson\"\u003EDoctor Watson\u003C\/a\u003E investigate the case.\nThis was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in\n\"\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Final_Problem\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Final Problem\"\u003EThe Final Problem\u003C\/a\u003E\", and the success of The Hound of the\nBaskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nSir \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Baskerville\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Charles Baskerville\"\u003ECharles\nBaskerville\u003C\/a\u003E, Bart, is found dead on the grounds of his country house,\nBaskerville Hall. The cause is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing\nfor the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and the only known heir, Sir\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Hound of the Baskervilles\"\u003EHenry Baskerville\u003C\/a\u003E, coming from Toronto, Canada to claim his\ninheritance, Dr James Mortimer travels to London and asks Sherlock\nHolmes for help. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nMortimer\nexplains that the Baskerville family is afflicted by a curse.\nAccording to an old account, said to have been written in 1742 and\ndescribing events which had occurred a century earlier still, during\nthe \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Civil_War\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"English Civil War\"\u003EEnglish Civil War\u003C\/a\u003E, Hugo Baskerville was infatuated with a\nfarmer's daughter. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his\nbedroom. She escaped and the furious Baskerville offered his soul to\nthe devil if he could recapture her. Aided by friends, he pursued the\ngirl onto the desolate moor. Baskerville and his victim were found\ndead. She had died from fright, but a giant spectral hound stood\nguard over Baskerville's body. The hound tore out Baskerville's\nthroat, then vanished into the night. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nSir Charles\nBaskerville had become fearful of the legendary curse and its\nhellhound. Mortimer decided that Sir Charles had been waiting for\nsomeone when he died. His face was contorted in a ghastly expression,\nwhile his footprints suggested that he was running away from\nsomething. The elderly man's heart wasn't strong, and he had planned\nto go to London the very next day. Mortimer says he had seen the\nfootprints of a \"gigantic hound\" near Sir Charles's body,\nnothing was revealed at the inquest... \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n(source:\nWikipedia) \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the author: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Conan_Doyle\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Arthur Conan Doyle\"\u003ESir Arthur\nIgnatius Conan Doyle\u003C\/a\u003E DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish\nphysician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories\nabout the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered\nmilestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for\nwriting the fictional adventures of a second character he invented,\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Professor_Challenger\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Professor Challenger\"\u003EProfessor Challenger\u003C\/a\u003E. He was a prolific writer whose other works\ninclude fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry,\nnon-fiction, and historical novels. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n(source:\nWikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThis\nwas created by popular request to enable any beginning or established\nauthor to improve their skills by studying quality editions of\nclassic bestselling fiction. 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Barrie's Peter Pan - classic fiction selection\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058197_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=a0b3a847-39e3-4a46-aa4c-41f3ee5ef2c1\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2013\/07\/04\/rough-estimate-of-the-annual-changes-in-ocean-temperatures-from-700-to-2000-meters-based-on-nodc-data\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ERough Estimate of the Annual Changes in Ocean Temperatures ...\u003C\/a\u003E - OT, but I will be taking my son wild camping in the home of the \"Hound of the Baskervilles\" - that is Dartmoor UK - at the weekend and saw some interesting climate related history on Wikipedia: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\u0026nbsp;...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/grantwiggins.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/04\/better-seeing-what-we-dont-see-as-we-teach\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBetter seeing what we don't see as we teach | Granted, and...\u003C\/a\u003E - What is the equivalent of \"hearing\" the dog that, for once, doesn't bark, as Sherlock Holmes famously did in Hound of the Baskervilles? To what things do we as teachers in our own classrooms tend to be blind? Where should\u0026nbsp;...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/opa\/blogs\/culturalcompass\/2012\/05\/03\/sherlock-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDiscovering Sherlock Holmes in the Archives\u003C\/a\u003E - The Center's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle papers include the handwritten manuscript for this story, as well as a manuscript page from the most famous Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Doyle papers also contain\u0026nbsp;...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/from-the-stacks-the-great-detective\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFrom the Stacks: The Great Detective | Walter Havighurst Special ...\u003C\/a\u003E - Ten years later The Strand began serializing the classic novel Hound of the Baskervilles. The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place was the last Holmes story to be published there in April of 1927. Although you can find a\u0026nbsp;...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/magazine.pepperdine.edu\/index.php\/2012\/11\/a-collection-of-characters-expanded-interviews\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA Collection of Characters: Expanded Interviews\u003C\/a\u003E - It was a mystery called The Dogs of Avalanche Hill (I had just finished reading The Hound of the Baskervilles), and I've loved telling stories ever since. One of my great hopes is that no one ever finds a copy of that novel.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#hound-baskervilles","title":"A. 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The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and\nPurgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven.\nBeatrice was a \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.7833333333,11.25\u0026amp;spn=0.1,0.1\u0026amp;q=43.7833333333,11.25%20(Florence)\u0026amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Florence\"\u003EFlorentine\u003C\/a\u003E woman whom he had met in childhood and\nadmired from afar in the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love\ntradition, which is highlighted in Dante's earlier work \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Vita_Nuova\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"La Vita Nuova\"\u003ELa Vita\nNuova\u003C\/a\u003E. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThe structure of the three realms follows a common\nnumerical pattern of 9 plus 1, for a total of 10: 9 circles of the\nInferno, followed by Lucifer contained at its bottom; 9 rings of\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Divine_Comedy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Divine Comedy\"\u003EMount Purgatory\u003C\/a\u003E, followed by the Garden of Eden crowning its summit;\nand the 9 celestial bodies of Paradiso, followed by the Empyrean\ncontaining the very essence of God. Within each group of 9, 7\nelements correspond to a specific moral scheme, subdivided into three\nsubcategories, while 2 others of greater particularity are added to\ntotal nine. For example, the seven deadly sins of the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_Church\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Catholic Church\"\u003ECatholic Church\u003C\/a\u003E\nthat are cleansed in Purgatory are joined by special realms for the\nLate repentant and the excommunicated by the church. The core seven\nsins within Purgatory correspond to a moral scheme of love perverted,\nsubdivided into three groups corresponding to excessive love (Lust,\nGluttony, \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_deadly_sins\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Seven deadly sins\"\u003EGreed\u003C\/a\u003E), deficient love (Sloth), and malicious love (Wrath,\nEnvy, Pride).\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n(Source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dante_Alighieri\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dante Alighieri\"\u003EDurante degli\nAlighieri\u003C\/a\u003E, simply referred to as Dante (c. 1265–1321), was a major\nItalian poet of the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Ages\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Middle Ages\"\u003EMiddle Ages\u003C\/a\u003E. His Divine Comedy, originally called\nCommedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered\nthe greatest literary work composed in the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_language\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Italian language\"\u003EItalian language\u003C\/a\u003E and a\nmasterpiece of world literature. \n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nIn Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta (\"the\nSupreme Poet\") or just il Poeta. He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are\nalso known as \"the three fountains\" or \"the three\ncrowns\". Dante is also called the \"Father of the Italian\nlanguage\".\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n(Source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThis\nwas created by popular request to enable any beginning or established\nauthor to improve their skills by studying quality editions of\nclassic bestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Articles\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writing-bestseller-fiction-books.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523405_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writing-bestseller-fiction-books.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELearning to write by studying bestseller fiction books. Novel? No - classics.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/worstellr.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/25\/why-study-classic-fiction-to-improve-your-real-world-results\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188410784_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/worstellr.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/25\/why-study-classic-fiction-to-improve-your-real-world-results\/\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhy study classic fiction? To improve your real-world results.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523390_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA year's worth of Classic Fiction to Study - and Entertain...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/JM-barrie-peter-pan-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058194_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/JM-barrie-peter-pan-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJ. M. Barrie's Peter Pan - classic fiction selection\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058197_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.cornellcollege.edu\/2013\/04\/english-professor-edits-articles-on-teaching-dante\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEnglish professor edits articles on teaching Dante - News - Cornell ...\u003C\/a\u003E - In her article, \"The Triple Cord: Teaching Dante's 'Divine Comedy' and Creativity,\" Stavreva describes a pedagogical approach to the poem through a sustained artistic effort. Students craft small-book \"reflectoriesH that\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/souldevice.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/09\/divine-comedy-purgatorio-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDante's Divine Comedy, Purgatorio: Introduction | Soul Device\u003C\/a\u003E - The second book of Dante's Divine Comedy follows the writer's journey through Purgatory, pictured here as a great mountain (corresponding to the great pit of the Inferno, and, as said earlier, also formed by Satan's fall).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www1.assumption.edu\/faculty\/theology\/lepain-marc\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELePain, Marc H Assumption College Faculty Profiles\u003C\/a\u003E - Dante's Divine Comedy. Sample of Presentations. \"Pierre Manent on the Church and the City of Man\", Lonergan Workshop, Boston College, June 2004. Ernest L. , Fortin, A.A. Memorial Lecture \"'Blessed Are the Peacemakers': A Reading of\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/french-italian\/2013\/05\/italian-courses-offered-this-fall-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EITALIAN COURSES OFFERED THIS FALL 2013 | Department of ...\u003C\/a\u003E - ITA 231 - Dante's Divine Comedy - TR 02:35p - 3:50p in Furman 132. Dante's language and philosophical tenets through the study of style, characters, and themes. Taught in English. ITALIAN 242 - Contemporary Italian\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.getty.edu\/iris\/a-call-to-arms-heraldry-in-renaissance-florence-and-a-mystery-you-can-help-solve\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA Call to Arms! Heraldry in Renaissance Florence (And a Mystery ...\u003C\/a\u003E - An illustrious copy of Dante's Divine Comedy on loan from The Morgan Library \u0026amp; Museum bears the arms of Dante's own family, the Alighieri (you can see the manuscript here). Francesca Pasut, a specialist on 14th-century\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topdefinitions.com\/2013\/08\/03\/history-of-literature-is\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EHistory of literature is - | What is this ? - Top definitions\u003C\/a\u003E - ... Norse sagas have much in common with Homer and Virgil's approaches to war and honor, while poems such as Dante's Divine Comedy and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales take much different stylistic directions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/magazine.wfu.edu\/2013\/06\/04\/no-51-no-75\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ENo. 51 - No. 75 | Wake Forest Magazine | Wake Forest University\u003C\/a\u003E - With a 1502 edition of Dante's \"Divine Comedy\" and an Ethiopian Bible from the late 18th or early 19th century, to first editions of \"Pride and Prejudice\" (1813) and \"Charlotte's Web\" (1952), to Samuel Wait's walking stick and\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=a0b3a847-39e3-4a46-aa4c-41f3ee5ef2c1\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#divine-comedy","title":"Dante's Divine Comedy - classic fiction"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/feeds\/2725599641088252279\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/dantes-divine-comedy-classic-fiction.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/2725599641088252279"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/2725599641088252279"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/dantes-divine-comedy-classic-fiction.html","title":"Dante's Divine Comedy - classic fiction"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"robertworstell"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16109419616754661835"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-F_AKLZVMFBs\/UfLuS2BpeaI\/AAAAAAAAJGs\/rMPPzjI7-34\/s72-c\/SM-divine-comedy.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});