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The book centres on 'The May of Teck Club', a fictional institution said to have been established by Princess May of Teck during the First World War [5] "for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years, who are obliged to reside apart from their Families in order to follow an Occupation in London".
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.
It is the first novel in The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy. The story is told through a series of removable letters and postcards between the two main characters and is intended for an adult audience, [ 1 ] as some sources describe the artwork as disturbing.
The novel was written in pidgin [3] [4] English, a variation of English [5] native to some Nigerians and it has some unique characteristics such as doubling every adjective used in the novel. Some consider it a hard to read [ 6 ] novel, however, Ken Sara-Wiwa provides a glossary for the terms that are unknown to the modern English reader, which ...
The Poor Man and the Lady was the first novel written by English author Thomas Hardy.It was written in 1867 to 1868, and never published. After the manuscript had been rejected by at least five publishers, Hardy gave up his attempts to sell the novel in its original form; however, he incorporated some of its scenes and themes into later works, notably in the poem "The Poor Man and the Lady ...
Bookshop Memories" is published in 1936 by the English author George Orwell. As the title suggests, it is a reminiscence of his time spent working as an assistant in a second-hand bookshop. As the title suggests, it is a reminiscence of his time spent working as an assistant in a second-hand bookshop.
Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. In 2005, Time included the novel in its "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present". [1] The novel is based on Amis's experience as a script writer on the feature film Saturn 3, a Kirk Douglas vehicle. The novel was dramatised by the BBC in 2010.
The Uncommon Reader is a novella by Alan Bennett.After appearing first in the London Review of Books, Vol. 29, No. 5 (8 March 2007), it was published later the same year in book form by Faber & Faber and Profile Books.