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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).
Footprints of the Outsider is set in Teboke Village in the Apac district of Uganda.The only brick structure in the village is the ginnery at Teboke trading centre set up by two Indians, Hippos and Ramchand.
The novel seems to mark the low point of Wright's despair, for it lacks Camus's humanitarian hope or Jean-Paul Sartre’s belief in social change. [ citation needed ] Later critics, however, have suggested that The Outsider is a rejection of existentialism or is even a Christian existentialist novel.
Tex is a novel by S. E. Hinton, published in 1979. The book (like Rumble Fish and That Was Then, This Is Now) takes place in the same universe as Hinton's first book The Outsiders, but in a rural town called Garyville, Oklahoma, a fictional suburb of Tulsa. Tex and his older brother Mason live by themselves while their father tours the rodeo ...
The Outsider is a 1956 book by English writer Colin Wilson. [1]Through the works and lives of various artists – including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of Its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker (The Secret Life), Hermann Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake ...
As an English teacher, I've read numerous survey-reviews of the field that identify Maureen Daly's Seventeenth Summer (1942) as the first YA novel — i.e., written for a teen audience rather than being an adult novel that teens also read — and The Outsiders as the first in the modern genre of problem novels that makes up much of contemporary ...
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