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Hubert de Sevrac, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century (1796) is a Gothic novel by the celebrity actress and poet Mary Robinson.Its protagonists are a fictional French aristocrat Hubert de Sevrac and his daughter Sabina, who experience a series of dramatic travails after fleeing the French Revolution.
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.
A No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Once an Eagle has been a favorite of American military men and women since its writing. [1] The book appears on the Commandant's required reading list for all Staff Sergeants and Gunnery Sergeants [2] in the United States Marine Corps, and frequently serves as a text for cadets in leadership classes at West Point.
The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe and England with little concern for the law or the welfare of others. [1] He is the son of an equally disreputable mother, and Smollett himself comments that "Fathom justifies the proverb, 'What's bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh".
The book takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Harvard University is located. First years, or One-L's as they are often called, all face similar issues in their initial year of law school. Harvard, known for its reputation as one of the best law schools in the country, takes only about 12% of applicants. [1]
Post Office is the first novel written by American writer Charles Bukowski, published in 1971.The book is an autobiographical memoir of Bukowski's years working at the United States Postal Service.
Freckles asks McLean to choose a name for him to put down on the books. McLean gives Freckles the name of his own father, James Ross McLean. Freckles' duty is to twice a day walk the perimeter of the lumber company's land, a seven-mile trek through lonely swampland, and to be on the watch for those who aim to steal the expensive timber.
Washington quotes that he felt "robbed of his just rights" and that colored people like himself were "protected in all the rights of men", but the law at the time didn't reflect this. The law stripped basic human rights from African Americans, deeming them as inferior and upholding slaveholder principles.