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2 days ago · "Dolly" in Tin House, 29 May 2012 in Dear Life. Stories, 2012, pp. 233–256 (23 p.) "Dulse" in The New Yorker, 21 July 1980, 30–39, in The Moons of Jupiter, 1982; in The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories, edited by Wayne Grady, Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books Canada, 1982, 463–81. (republished in 1996)
2 days ago · The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three installments. Originally planned as a six-book series with the publication of The Eye of the World in 1990, The Wheel of Time came to span 14 volumes, in addition to a prequel novel and three companion ...
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3 days ago · Tom Hanks's 2011 web series Electric City is a story based on a post-apocalyptic world. In this world, a group of matriarchs (the "Knitting Society") impose an altruistic but oppressive society to counter the aftermath of a brutal war that brings down modern civilization; however, in time, even this new "utopian" order is ultimately called into ...
3 days ago · An early-eighth-century scholar from Breedon, one Tatwine, refers in one of his poems to philosophia (North misquotes the relevant lines on p. 177), and some aspects of Beowulf suggest that its poet had read Boethius, De consolatione Philosophiae, so perhaps a copy of that work was available at Breedon (the lines of Tatwine refer to philosophia ...
5 days ago · legend, traditional story or group of stories told about a particular person or place.Formerly the term legend meant a tale about a saint. Legends resemble folktales in content; they may include supernatural beings, elements of mythology, or explanations of natural phenomena, but they are associated with a particular locality or person and are told as a matter of history.
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4 days ago · Franz Kafka (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria) was a German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works—especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis)—express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and ...
5 days ago · Biography. Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of respectable middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. He ...
