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2002-present. Genre. urban fiction. young adult fiction. crime fiction. K'wan Foye, also known simply as K'wan, is an American author of urban fiction. [1][2] According to Foye his first novel, Gangsta, was largely autobiographical. [3] The book reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list. [4]
Noble House. King Rat is a 1962 novel by James Clavell and the author's literary debut. Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore. Clavell was a prisoner in the Changi Prison camp, where the novel is set.
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane is the second book in Suzanne Collins 's children's novel series The Underland Chronicles. [3] Published in 2004, the novel contains elements of high fantasy. [1] The novel focuses on a prophecy mentioned at the end of Gregor the Overlander which the Underlanders believe ...
It was the longest running arc (in terms of time) running for four years and one month. The main story in issue #13.5, "Up on the Roof", was reprinted as chapter six in The Great Cow Race collected edition, therefore making it part of Vernal Equinox. The second arc was named Solstice, or Phoney Strikes Back. The arc lasted from issues #20–37 ...
Preceded by. Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and ...
Elsewhere in Cenaria, eleven-year-old Logan Gyre watches his father, Duke Regnus Gyre, as he prepares to travel to a garrison called Screaming Winds on Cenaria's border with Khalidor. The Duke leaves his son as the Lord of House Gyre. A traveling mage from the Empire of Sethi, Solon Tofusin, arrives at the Gyre estate.
1819. " Rip Van Winkle " (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑɱ ˈʋɪŋkəl]) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains.
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...