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The Topeka School is a 2019 novel by the American novelist and poet Ben Lerner about a high school debate champion from Topeka, Kansas in the 1990s. The book is considered both a bildungsroman and a work of autofiction, as the narrative incorporates many details from Lerner's own life. [2] The novel was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize ...
The intention of the work was to set down the essential parts of the "ideal novel". Austen was following, and guying, the recommendations of Clarke. [1] The work was also influenced by some of Austen's personal circle with views on the novel of courtship, and names are recorded in the margins of the manuscript; [9] they included William Gifford, her publisher, and her niece Fanny Knight.
McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco (his first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac."). His best friend, Marcus Schouler, brings his cousin, Trina Sieppe, whom he's courting, to McTeague's parlor for dental work.
Among them: "This is the book club that gets you ready for other book clubs." "A book club without the guilt." But the 48-year-old bristles at the well-worn idea that this is "a book club for ...
Novels about teachers, persons who help students to acquire knowledge, competence or virtue Pages in category "Novels about teachers" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Nicholas Dames, in a favorable review for the Spring 2023 edition of n+1, called the novel "one of our young century’s landmarks of fiction". [9] Solenoid was explicitly mentioned when Cărtărescu won the 2022 FIL Award. [10] The novel won the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. [11]
The novel explores the concept of civil disobedience when the students' right to remain silent is challenged by the school's teachers. The students use creative and peaceful means to protest against the school's rules and regulations, demonstrating the power of nonviolent resistance and the importance of standing up for one's beliefs.
“The Idea of You,” in its original form as a book, is not a conventional romance. Yes, Soléne and Hayes fall in love — but they don’t stay together. Author Lee wanted it that way.