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Wake (Stylized WAKE) is a 2008 novel by Lisa McMann centered on seventeen-year-old Janie Hannagan's involuntary power which thrusts her into others' dreams.The novel follows Janie through parts of her young adulthood, focusing mainly on the events that occur during her senior year, in which she meets an enigmatic elderly woman, and becomes involved with Cabel, a loner and purported drug-dealer ...
Finnegans Wake is a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. It is known for its allusive and experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works in literature. In 1924, it began to appear in installments under the title "fragments from Work in Progress". The final title was only revealed when the book was published on 4 May ...
Tasha Lowe-Newsome suggests in The Comics Journal that the title's use of the word "wake" has multiple meanings. For instance, wake up to historical realities, wake up to current day reality, the wake of a slave ship, and the wake or remembrance of the African people who lost their lives.
The work gives both a general critical overview of Finnegans Wake and a detailed exegetical outline of the text. [1] According to Campbell and Robinson, Finnegans Wake is best interpreted in light of Giambattista Vico's philosophy, which holds that history proceeds in cycles and fails to achieve meaningful progress over time. [2]
The Wake is a 2014 debut novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. [1] Written in an imaginary language, a hybrid of Old English and Modern English , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it tells of Buccmaster of Holland , [ 3 ] an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed. [ 4 ]
Gone is a bestselling book series written by Michael Grant. [ 1 ] The series is centered on the fictional Southern California town of Perdido Beach, in which every human aged 15 and older vanishes.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is the title of a collection of reprinted reviews and other magazine pieces by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Along with Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution it was one of the books that made his name. Its subject matter ranges from literary criticism (especially of German ...
The Wind Done Gone is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation and the daughter of Scarlett's father and Mammy. Sold from the O'Haras, Cynara eventually makes her way back to Atlanta and becomes the mistress of a white businessman.