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Aaron Burr, the Third U.S. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802) Burr portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men; thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles; Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and ...
Charles Nelson (1942 - 2003) [1] was an American writer, best known for his 1981 novel The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up. [2] Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, [3] he moved to DeLand, Florida with his family at age 12 [3] and later graduated from Stetson University. [4] He served as a medic in the United States Marine Corps during the ...
Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March by E. L. Doctorow; Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, and Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett; Centennial, The Covenant, Texas, and Journey by James A. Michener; The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle; The War of the End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo) by Mario Vargas Llosa (late 19th) Tai-Pan and Gai ...
Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley. It tells the story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. Kingsley's last historical novel, it was instrumental in elevating ...
"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori, taken from the story told by Lord Byron as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. [1] "
The Wake County school board will decide whether a book is too “demonic” to remain in an elementary school library or is just a piece of satire that’s acceptable for students to read.
The Professor, A Tale. was the first novel by English author Charlotte Brontë.It was written in 1846 before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses.It was eventually published, posthumously, in 1857, with the approval of Charlotte Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who took on the task of reviewing and editing the text.