Great Contemporary Books
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923) Pocket-sized set of aphorisms that sound like they were written by a medieval monk but were actually the…
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American female authors 20th century
About the Emory Women Writers Resource Project The current Emory Women Writers Resource Project site represents the joining of the original EWWRP…
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Best novels for reading
It isn’t just Hollywood that saves its blockbusters for summer. Book publishers are gearing up for one of the hottest lineups in years. This…
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Best Books 20th century
On the eve of the new millennium, the Intercollegiate Review The turn of the century is a time to take stock of the path we have followed, the…
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Greatest novels of the 20th century
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1925 The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger - 1951 The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 1939 Lolita…
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Days of my Life
Today I am days old. A few years back I began counting my age not in years, but days. The day is the natural cycle of our lives. The cycle of…
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Great authors
UPDATE: These daily routines have now been adapted into a labor-of-love visualization of writers’ sleep habits vs. literary productivity. Kurt…
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Top 100 novels of 20th century
See also the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th century list. Source: by Robert P. Doyle, ALA 2010. The Great Gatsby , by…
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20th century Novelists
When I ask people about their favorite classic novels, I usually get a similar response from everybody: Jane Austen, A couple Brontës’, A few…
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Best modern writers
Are the writers receiving the major awards and official recognition really the best writers today? Or are they overrated mediocrities with little…
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Famous authors names list
Literary baby names can be inspired the characters in books or, in the case of the baby names on this list, by the first and last names of authors…
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World famous novels list
Books are deeply personal things. Each of us form unique bonds with the characters we read about, relate to storylines and personalities in different…
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Greatest modern Books
First Sentence: ”It is after midnight on one of those Friday nights when the guests have all gone home and the host and hostess are left in their…
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20th century American Fiction
The essays in this collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald s The Last Tycoon…
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Top novels of 20th century
This list reflects the rankings of all 152 lists published as of March 12, 2013. Compared with the original list (see below), Gatsby and Lolita…
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