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The Unvanquished is a 1938 novel by the American author William Faulkner, set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. It tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris (or Flags in the Dust). The Unvanquished takes place before that story, and is set during the American Civil War. Principal characters are Bayard ...
Cancer Ward (Russian: Раковый корпус, romanized: Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. [1] Completed in 1966, the novel was distributed in Russia that year in samizdat, and banned there the following year.
The novel has received a mostly negative response, and maintains a 2.5 rating (out of a possible five) on Amazon.com. [2] Several critics have attacked the story's graphic scenes of violence and torture, and also claim that the prose style is of a very low standard.
Native Tongue is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Suzette Haden Elgin, the first book in her series of the same name.The trilogy is centered in a future dystopian American society where the 19th Amendment was repealed in 1991 [1] and women have been stripped of civil rights.
The Tiger in the Smoke is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1952 in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus and in the United States by Doubleday. [1] It is the fourteenth novel in the Albert Campion series. [2] Critics have called it the finest of the Campion mysteries [3] and her best book. [4]
Having sworn revenge, Sandokan gathers a group of rebels and pirates, the Tigers of Mompracem (now Pulau Kuraman), to regain his Princedom, and adopts the nickname of "Tiger of Malaysia". Stranded in Labuan , Sandokan is recovering of his wounds in the house of Lord James Guillonk, where he meets Marianna, the Lord's niece, aka the "Pearl of ...
The first set of logic puzzles in the book had a similar scenario to the short story in which a king gives each prisoner a choice between a number of doors; behind each one was either a lady or a tiger. However, the king bases the prisoner's fate on intelligence and not luck by posting a statement on each door that can be true or false.
One of the most commented aspects of Fledgling is its unusual type of vampire, the result of Butler's fusion of vampire fiction with science fiction. While the Ina are simply another species coexisting with humanity, the traditional vampire's monstrosity and abnormality routinely symbolizes deviant sexuality and decadence, serves as a foil for humanity, or is a projection of repressed sexual ...