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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) [1] against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. 17 year-old Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip.
[5] Every Dead Thing introduced readers to the anti-hero Charlie Parker, a former police officer hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. It was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and went on to win the 2000 Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel, making Connolly the first author outside of the US to win. [6]
There are two published versions of The Lover: one written in the form of an autobiography, without any superimposed temporal structures, as the young girl narrates in first-person; the other, called The North China Lover and released in conjunction with the film version of the work, is in film script form, in the third person, with written dialogue and without internal monologue.
The Lovers is a science-fiction novella by American writer Philip José Farmer (1918–2009), first published in August 1952 in Startling Stories. In 1961, the work was expanded and published as a stand-alone softcover novel by Ballantine Books. In 1979, it was reissued by Ballantine as a Del Rey Classic in a final revised ("definitive") edition.
The Story of Three Loves (also known as Equilibrium) is a 1953 American Technicolor romantic anthology film made by MGM.It consists of three stories, "The Jealous Lover", "Mademoiselle", and "Equilibrium".
The story involves Bessie, a young woman whose lover, Basil Underwood, has been arrested, thrown in prison by the Puritans and sentenced to die that night when the curfew bell rings. Knowing that Oliver Cromwell will be late in arriving, the young woman begs the old sexton to prevent the ringing of the curfew bell. When he refuses, she climbs ...
The Lovers (1993) is a novel by Australian writer Morris West. It was originally published by Heinemann in England in 1993. [1] Synopsis ... D. I. Fine, USA, 1993 [5]