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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.
In Bookmarks May/June 2009 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.00 out of 5) based on critic reviews with the critical summary saying, "Verghese’s first novel is an expansive story well told". [4]
According to Book Marks, the book received a "rave" consensus, based on ten critic reviews: eight "rave" and two "mixed". [4] On September/October 2008 issue of Bookmarks, the book received a (4.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a summary saying, "Critics one and all seemed much taken with this classic tale from America’s heartland".
In 1973, the book was banned in Turkey because the book included "propaganda unfavorable to the state." [ 21 ] On February 21 of that year, eleven Turkish book publishers and eight booksellers "went on trial before an Istanbul martial law tribunal on charges of publishing, possessing, and selling books in violation of an order of the Istanbul ...
The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and ...
The character of March is based in part on Alcott's father, Amos Bronson Alcott, who was a teacher and abolitionist.Brooks used as source materials Mr. Alcott's letters and journals, and the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who were friends of the Alcott family.
Waiting for Anya is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in Great Britain in 1990, by William Heinemann.It is set in Lescun, in a mountainous region of southern France on the border with Spain.
The Running Man is the last of four books written by King under the name Richard Bachman before the author's real identity was leaked to the media. These are Rage (1977), The Long Walk (1979), Roadwork (1981), and The Running Man. The four novels were reissued in one volume as The Bachman Books (1985). [1]