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  2. 1 day ago · Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip . It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield , to be fully narrated in the first person.

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  3. 3 hours ago · t. e. Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature. [1] The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Early Middle Ages when Old Church Slavonic was introduced as a liturgical language and became used as a literary language. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in ...

  4. 1 day ago · Samurai cinema and Jidai-geki films. Jidai-geki 時代劇 is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. Literally "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier— Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period —and the ...

  5. 3 hours ago · A Brief History of Fantasy Literature. Fantasy Fiction can trace its roots back to ancient mythology, in particular Homer’s Odyssey written in the 9th century BC. It chronicles the fictional adventures of a hero returning to Ithaca after the capture of Troy. Beowulf (ca 700AD), the earliest surviving epic poem written in English, is another ...

  6. 1 day ago · Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay . Alissar. Lyon Sprague de Camp. Novarian series. A Novarian city-state. Al-Ybi. Terry Pratchett. Discworld. Al-Ybi is a mostly unremarkable desert city in Klatch.

  7. 1 day ago · Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 19th_century19th century - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · 19th century. An 1835 illustration of power loom weaving, as part of the Industrial Revolution. The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval.

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