Top five novels of all Time
Books What a daunting task it would be to write a list like this, but fortunately for us, Norton (of the Norton Anthologies) asked 125 of the…
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100 American novels
On the town … Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones in Carrie, the 1952 film adaptation of Sister Carrie. Photograph: Allstar Sister Carrie is…
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Women Authors
I applaud anyone thinking of doing #readwomen2014, even as I’m not sure I’ll be doing it myself in any formal way. Making it a point to read…
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Great African-American novels
Great books have their lives as surely as do their authors. Sometimes they correspond; sometimes not. Which one has the stranger life is often…
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American novels list
BOSTON — The Reading List Council has announced the 2016 selections of the Reading List, an annual best-of list comprised of eight different…
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Black History Authors
In 1996, Black History Month was celebrated by the government of Canada for the first time. Cabinet member Jean Augustine, the first black woman…
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Best Modern American novels
Some of the most wonderful fiction in English is by American writers. In this course we shall study five key novels of the twentieth century…
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Great Modern Authors
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was an English author and academic. He is best known to a wider public as a novelist. Although he is often compared…
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Greatest American novels of all Time
In case you missed all the cookouts and night-time explosions, yesterday was the fourth of July, and we hope you all spent it wearing red, white…
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Authors Famous
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.” –Will Rogers If you’re a writer who pays any amount of attention to the Internet (and how can you not…
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Most Famous American novels
Lawrence Buell THE DREAM OF THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL 584pp. Belknap Press. £29.95 (US $39.95). 978 0 674 05115 7 Photograph: (c) Images Etc Ltd/Getty…
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Postmodernist novels
Defining the parameters of postmodern literature is a daunting task, due not only to disagreements about what texts can or can’t be approached…
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My Life Chart
In order to get your Birth Chart you need to know your date, hour and place of birth and take into account the fact that the hour given must…
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Current novels
When I first started this blog, I thought that I ought to write entries at every opportunity. As time went on, I scaled back that wishful thinking…
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