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  1. 1 day ago · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .

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    3 days ago · Literary works are defined by copyright law to mean "any work, other than a dramatic or musical work, which is written, spoken or sung, and accordingly includes (a) a table or compilation (other than a database), (b) a computer program, (c) preparatory design material for a computer program, and (d) a database."

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  4. 3 days ago · Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, Long Island, is the sequel to Colm Tóibín ’s 2009 novel, Brooklyn, which tells the story of a young Irish woman named Eilis Lacey leaving behind everything she knows and everyone she loves to come to America. Long Island picks up 20 years later, after Eilis has made a life and her family for herself in New York.

  5. 4 days ago · Américo Paredes. September 3, 1915–May 5, 1999. The writer and folklorist Américo Paredes was born in Brownsville in 1915. Even as a youth, he saw that a distinct culture had emerged in the Rio Grande Valley—not just Mexican or American, but a blend of both. After serving as an Army journalist during World War II, Paredes returned to his ...

  6. 3 days ago · In other words, Ways and Means is a novel for the new and frightening America, where turbo-capitalism and economic privilege reign supreme. Ways and Means , by Daniel Lefferts. New York, New York: Overlook Press, February 2024. 400 pages. $28.00, hardcover .

  7. 5 days ago · Alexander Pope was a poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34). He is one of the most epigrammatic of all English authors. Pope’s father, a wholesale.

  8. 5 days ago · 2024-05-26 - Breandán Mac Suibhne. About 20 years ago, The New Yorker carried a cartoon by Leo Cullum depicting a man in a cloth cap and a snake drinking together at a bar. “Gimme a break,” the man says. “Being driven out of Ireland is the best thing ever happened to you.”. Tyler Anbinder, whose must-read Plentiful Country: The Great ...

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