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The Star-News said that with the novel, Mott earned "a place on the shelf beside such African-American writers as Colson Whitehead and Octavia Butler". [1]On November 17, 2021, the novel was awarded the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. [2]
Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas.The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, whose titles refer eponymously to the mythical characters Dunyazad, Perseus and Bellerophon (slayer of the mythical Chimera).
The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in ...
Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
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.
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.
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 Chrysalids (United States title: Re-Birth) is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham, first published in 1955 by Michael Joseph.It is the least typical of Wyndham's major novels, but regarded by some as his best.