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The English monarchy was restored when Charles II of England (above) became king in 1660.. Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1688), which corresponds to the last years of Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
The development of American literature coincided with the nation's development, especially of its identity. [1] Calls for an "autonomous national literature" first appeared during the American Revolution, [2] and, by the mid-19th century, the possibility of American literature exceeding its European counterparts began to take shape, as did that of the Great American Novel, this time being the ...
It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 [1] and was the Sunday Express Book of the Year. It was made into a film in 1995. The novel is set in the reign of Charles II of England (reigned 1660–1685), and depicts a medical student who gains the king's favour by apparently curing a pet dog owned by the king.
Carol Shields novel The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and another novel, Larry's Party, won the Orange Prize in 1998. Lawrence Hill 's Book of Negroes won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best Book Award, while Alice Munro became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. [ 197 ]
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
A History of the Book in America is a five-volume series of scholarly books of essays published 2000–2010 by the University of North Carolina Press, and edited by David D. Hall. [1] Topics include printing, publishing, book selling, reading, and other aspects of print culture in colonial America and the United States.
The Mosquito Coast is a novel by author Paul Theroux. [1] Published in 1981, it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The comedy of manners has been employed by Roman satirists since as early as the first century BC. Horace's Satire 1.9 is a prominent example, in which the persona is unable to express his wish for his companion to leave, but instead subtly implies so through wit.