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Plot summaries should be written from the real world perspective by referring to specific works or parts of works ("In the first book", "In Act II") or describing things from the author or creator's perspective ("The author introduces", "The story describes").
True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial within The Saturday Evening Post. [1] The novel is told from the perspective of an elderly spinster named Mattie Ross, who recounts the time a half century earlier when she was 14 and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel, Tom Chaney.
The Notebook was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel and written over a time period of six months in 1994. [1] [2] Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. Park offered to represent him.
Reviews of the novel have been largely positive, and Dune is considered by some critics to be the best science fiction book ever written. [84] The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, and has sold almost 20 million copies. [85] Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. [86] [3]
A TikToker has sent social media into meltdown after asking why a book had “so many words” in it. Yanna Lina, a popular BookToker (a name given to readers on TikTok who share reviews and ...
Doyle wrote a short Sherlock Holmes story, just 503 words long, onto the tiny pages of a specially constructed miniature book: "How Watson Learned the Trick". The story was later published alongside works by other authors in The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House Library (1924). Though written 28 years after "The Field Bazaar", this is almost a ...
The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).