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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.
Homeless Bird is a 2000 young adult novel by American author Gloria Whelan about a 13-year-old widow in the year 2000 in India. This book won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000. [1] The title comes from a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Whelan did not visit India but read extensively about the country before she wrote ...
A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library [2] and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. [3]
Choosing a Bride; Brides on Their Trial. Aarne–Thompson grouping. ATU 1452. Country. Germany. Published in. Grimms' Fairy Tales. " Looking for a Bride " or " Choosing a Bride " or " Brides on Their Trial " is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales, number 155. [1] It was first added in the second edition.
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version is a 1973 fantasy romance novel by American writer William Goldman. The book combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, drama, romance, and fairy tale. It is metafictionally presented as an abridgment of a longer work by the ...
ISBN. 978-0-8021-6217-5. The Covenant of Water is a 2023 novel by physician and author Abraham Verghese. The book was published by Grove Atlantic. The novel tells the story of an Indian Malayali family living in southwest India, in the Kerala state, with the narrative spanning three generations, from 1900 to the 1970s.
In the Völundarkviða, Wayland Smith and his brothers marry valkyries who dress in swan skins.. The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which she can appear either as a bird or as a woman; those in which one of the elements of the narrative is the theft of the feather-robe belonging to a ...
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy. Later on, SparkNotes expanded to provide study guides for a number of other subjects ...