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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 Good Companions was an instant hit on publication but was not particularly well regarded by critics. Nevertheless it remained popular for more than forty years. It then fell out of favour, not only because the novel was written from a (rather old-fashioned) middle-class perspective, but also because it dealt with a phenomenon (a travelling music hall troupe) that no longer existed.
[9] [10] "Naming Ceremony" was runner-up for the 2020 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize [11] [12] and a finalist for the 2019 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize. [13] Power was guided by her family's own history with unwelcome government intervention into Native society and multigenerational experiences with Indian boarding schools.
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.
Saunders did not originally intend to write a novel (and had avoided doing so in the past [14] [10] [15]), but the story of Lincoln cradling his son's body stayed with him, and he eventually decided to write about it. [8] The novel began as a single section, and was fleshed out over time. [8]
A tale from The Decameron, by John William Waterhouse. This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.. Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story.
Ghachar Ghochar is a 2013 psychological drama novella written by Kannada author Vivek Shanbhag and was translated into English by Srinath Perur. [1] Set in Bangalore, the book is about an unnamed narrator who reminisces about his dysfunctional family's rags to riches story which results in troubling behavioural changes in each of them. [2]
Synge's most famous play, The Playboy of the Western World, "caused outrage and riots when it was first performed" in Dublin in 1907. [10] George Bernard Shaw turned the Edwardian theatre into an arena for debate about important political and social issues, like marriage, class, "the morality of armaments and war" and the rights of women. [11]