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The most popular response to 2. Bc4 is 2...Nf6, the Berlin Defence, which immediately renders the scholar's mate non-viable. In the continuation 2...Bc5 (the Classical Defence) 3. Qh5, Black can defend against both scholar's mate and the threatened 4. Qxe5+ with 3...Qe7, intending to gain a tempo later with 4...Nf6. The further continuation 4.
All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published on December 22, 1999 that discusses aspects of love in modern society. The book is organized into thirteen chapters, in which each chapter discusses an aspect of love. Within these chapters, hooks also provides the reader with reflections on her own journey of love, as well as ...
The Guardian wrote "The absence of a conventional sense of story or structure reflects the musical form that Aciman is invoking, making this a clever experiment but also a frustrating one."
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
The Scholars is a satirical novel that describes the life activities of various Chinese Confucian scholars, prudently set mostly in the early 16th century during the Ming dynasty that preceded the Qing. Addressing the ruling Qing dynasty could lead to capital punishment; thus it was safer to depict Ming intellectual life.
The focus, however, is on English works: the poems of Chaucer, Gower's Confessio Amantis and Usk's Testament of Love, the works of Chaucer's epigones, and Spenser's Faerie Queene. The book is ornamented with quotations from poems in many languages, including Classical and Medieval Latin, Middle English, and Old French. The piquant English ...
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister is a three-volume roman à clef by Aphra Behn playing with events of the Monmouth Rebellion and exploring the genre of the epistolary novel. The first volume, published in 1684, lays some claim to be the first English novel. Some scholars claim that the attribution to Behn remains in dispute.
The Daily Telegraph's Alastair Sooke compared Love Lasts Three Years to Holiday in a Coma, a 1994 novel by Beigbeder about the same main character.Sooke said it retains "splashes of the acid wit" from the earlier book, but Love Lasts Three Years is a more reflective work with simpler language and fragmentary chapters, which successfully convey the feeling of being in love.