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In Spain, Book Day began to be celebrated since 1926 every October 7, [7] the date that Miguel de Cervantes was believed to have been born. But, it was considered more appropriate to celebrate this day in a more pleasant season for walking and browsing the books in the open-air.
The Lord of the Rings is an epic [1] high fantasy novel [a] by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.Set in Middle-earth, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work.
Metro 2033 (Russian: Метро 2033) is a 2002 post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky.It is set within the Moscow Metro, where the last survivors hide after a global nuclear holocaust.
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia.The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert.
In an attempt to follow the statute, Lake County School District restricted access to 40 books, most dealing with LGBTQ themes. [75] Books restricted included A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, and In Our Mothers’ House by Patricia Polacco.
A 2012 survey by the University of Worcester determined that it was the second most common book that UK adults had read as children, after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Adults, perhaps limited to parents, ranked Alice and The Lion fifth and sixth as books the next generation should read, or their children should read during their lifetimes ...
LibriVox recording by Karen Savage. Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813.A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Similarly, Holmes has also connected the theme to Brambleclaw and how nobody knew whether he was good or evil. [4] A third major theme, often referred to as nature versus nurture, explores whether a character is born the way they will be, or if other extrinsic factors shape that. For example, Brambleclaw's father is the murderer Tigerstar, but ...