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The book was the inspiration for the 1982-1983 French cartoon TV series Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or (The Mysterious Cities of Gold).A few of the central characters take their names from the book, the high-level quest (searching for the Cities of Gold) is the same, and the "golden lake" scene from the book is also present in the cartoon, but the similarities end there (the cartoon has motifs ...
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 original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Four weeks earlier, a free electronic companion book to the trilogy titled The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant was released online. The novel was to be adapted into a two-part film, the first part, The Divergent Series: Allegiant , was released on March 18, 2016, while the second part, called Ascendant , was planned to release in June ...
The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, [1] [2] published on November 6, 2001. Centered on time-travelling 20th-century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th-century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser, the books contain elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and fantasy.
New girl Maureen Little joins the Fifth Form after the closure of her old school, Mazely Manor. Her vain character, along with her long and tedious stories about her former school swiftly irritates the other girls. When Mam’zelle mistakenly refers to the school as “Measley Manor,” the girls delight in repeating her mistake in Maureen's ...
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on seven critic reviews, with four being "rave" and two being "positive" and one being "mixed". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The New York Times ' review stated " The Fifth Season invites us to imagine a dismantling of the earth in both the literal and the metaphorical sense, and suggests the ...