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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. [1]
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim.
Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.He was one of the leading U.S. critics [according to whom?] of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature.
Rabbit Hill is a children's novel by Robert Lawson that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1945. [1] In 1954 he wrote a sequel, The Tough Winter . Plot introduction
Hansel and Gretel are siblings who are abandoned in a forest and fall into the hands of a witch who lives in a house made of bread, [3] cake, and sugar. The witch, who has cannibalistic intentions, intends to fatten Hansel before eventually eating him. However, Gretel saves her brother by pushing the witch into her own oven, killing her, and ...
Abandoned, the English language title of the Italian war film Gli Sbandati; Abandoned, a Hungarian film; Abandoned, starring Brittany Murphy; Abandoned, a television movie about the shipwreck of the Rose-Noëlle in 1989; Abandoned, starring Emma Roberts; The Abandoned, a 1945 Mexican film
World Bank President Kim said in March that the demand in struggling regions for infrastructure spending — to provide clean water, electricity, medical care and other vital needs — will mean the bank will finance an increasing number of big projects likely to remove people from their land or disrupt their livelihoods.
She winds up working at a diner and living in an abandoned boiler, the latter having figured in Cannery Row as the home of a married couple. Her and Doc eventually falling in love is the crux of the story. Mack is the de facto leader of a group of formerly homeless men who live in a shack on Cannery Row.