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It is Shibli's third novel, written over the course of 12 years. [1] It was written in Arabic, first published in that language in 2017, [2] and translated to English by Elisabeth Jaquette in 2020. [3] It is based on a true story. [4] [5] The novel was published in Arabic in 2017. It received a number of translations since: German: Eine ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The Fixer is a novel by Bernard Malamud published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. [1] It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (his second) [2] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [3] The Fixer provides a fictionalized version of the Beilis case. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Jew unjustly imprisoned in Tsarist Russia. The "Beilis trial ...
Structurally, Portnoy's Complaint is a continuous monologue by narrator Alexander Portnoy to Dr. Spielvogel, his psychoanalyst; Roth later explained that the artistic choice to frame the story as a psychoanalytic session was motivated by "the permissive conventions of the patient-analyst situation," which would "permit me to bring into my fiction the sort of intimate, shameful detail, and ...
Cover of a 1934 edition of the novel Officialdom Unmasked, collection of the Fudan University. Officialdom Unmasked (simplified Chinese: 官场现形记; traditional Chinese: 官場現形記; pinyin: Guānchǎng Xiànxíng Jì; Wade–Giles: Kuan-ch'ang hsien-hsing chi) is a late-Qing Chinese novel by Li Baojia (Li Boyuan).
The series, based on Rebecca Godfrey’s true-crime novel, fuses reality and invention for a gutting account of teenage violence. Here's what's true and what's fiction in the series.
Zodiac is a non-fiction book written by Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the "Zodiac Killer" in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early '70s. Since its initial release in 1986, Zodiac has sold 4 million copies worldwide. [1] Graysmith was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and later also wrote Zodiac ...
Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district.