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Some historians have suggested that Dickens based Defarge on revolutionaries Théroigne de Mericourt, who played a key role in street demonstrations, and Olympe de Gouges, known as Fury and founder of apocryphal Club of Knitting Women. [1] She is one of the main villains of the novel, obsessed with revenge against the Evrémondes.
The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness . Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful.
The Compson family is a fictional family created by American author William Faulkner for use in his novels and short stories. A once prominent family in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the family began to fall on hard times in the twentieth century.
Quentin Compson is a fictional character created by William Faulkner.He is an intelligent, neurotic, and introspective son of the Compson family.He is featured in the classic novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! as well as the short stories "That Evening Sun" and "A Justice".
As I Lay Dying is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature. [2] [3] [11] The novel has been reprinted by the Modern Library, [12] the Library of America, and numerous publishers, including Chatto and Windus in 1970, [13] Random House in 1990, [14] Tandem Library in 1991, [15] Vintage Books in 1996, [16] and the Folio ...
The "Four Horsemen" is the professional wrestling faction that competed in the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s. The faction's original incarnation consisted of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and J. J. Dillon, with other members including Lex Luger, Sid Vicious, Sting, Steve McMichael, Dean Malenko, Chris Benoit, Brian ...
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.
Raavan is arguably the most complex villain in Indian literature, and Amish delivers one of the kind we have never met, re-imagining evil in ways we have not known.” [5] Gautam also noted Amish's penchant for weaving in deep philosophies — "From the physical to the philosophical, the discourse between the two, both silent as well as verbal ...