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Nikolai Gogol, "Christmas Eve" (from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka) [1] O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi; E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (Nussknacker und Mausekönig) Leo Tolstoy, "Papa Panov's Special Christmas" (translation of Saillens) Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales; Philip Van Doren Stern, The Greatest Gift
Books on Vatican spies, a memoir about Ukraine, cartoonist Martin Rowson’s writings, the story of the world in 50 failures and a history of American migrants are reviewed in full below.
Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative.This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. [1] In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative.
Portrait of Samuel Richardson by Joseph Highmore. National Portrait Gallery, Westminster, England.. The English novel is an important part of English literature.This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have spent a significant part of their lives in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland (or any part of Ireland before 1922).
This episodic novel follows the lives of some Londoners in the last full week before Christmas, 2007. Most of them are guests at a dinner on Day Seven, Saturday; the others are closely connected. R. Tranter is a critic and book reviewer who disparages and scorns all present-day literature, but champions a little-known Victorian writer.
The Sign of the Beaver tells the story of 13-year-old Matthew James "Matt" Hallowell, an 18th-century American settler. He and his father build a log cabin in the wilderness of Maine, then Matt is left alone to guard the cabin and his family's claim to the land while his father heads back to Quincy, Massachusetts to pick up his mother, his sister, and the new baby and bring them back to the cabin.
The book tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of a die. [2] Cockcroft describes the origin of the title idea variously in interviews, once recalling a college "quirk" he and friends used to decide "what they were going to do that night" based on a die-roll, or sometimes to decide between mildly ...
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