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His 2008 fantasy, The Graveyard Book, traces the story of a boy who is raised by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard. In 2001, Terry Pratchett received the Carnegie Medal (his first major award) for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. [54] Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series were published between 2003 and 2015. [55]
The Group is the best-known novel of American writer Mary McCarthy. It made New York Times Best Seller list in 1963 [1] and remained there for almost two years. In 1966, United Artists released a film adaptation of the book. The novel touched on controversial topics for its time, such as free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism, and ...
"Twenty-six Men and a Girl" is a pioneering story of social realism, and is a story of lost ideals. Twenty-six men labor in a cellar, making kringles in an effective prison. They are looked down upon by all around them, including the bun bakers.
The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue (ISBN 0-09-112550-2) is 1972 a novel by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler. [1] Its plot tells the story of a group of academic scientists struggling to understand the human tendency towards self-destruction, while the group members gradually become more suspicious and aggressive towards each other.
A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1959.Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.
The third story titled The Initiate, [8] [9] the fourth story The Son [10] [11] and the fifth and final story The Traitor were released on July 8, 2014. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Simultaneously with the release of last three short stories, a collected edition of the five short stories titled Four: A Divergent Collection was released on July 8, 2014, which ...
The story follows Reginald Nwankwo, a man living in a turbulent time of war. The first encounter with Gladys, a militia girl, at a checkpoint leaves a lasting impression on him, challenging his perspective on the revolution. Over time, as the war progresses and conditions worsen, Reginald's encounters with Gladys become more significant.
The interest in black feminism was on the rise in the 1970s, through the writings of Mary Helen Washington, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and others. [3]: 87 In 1981, the anthology This Bridge Called My Back, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa, was published and But Some of Us Are Brave was published the following year.