Challenge: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
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1 Russia’s best known Modern Playwright 1.1.1 Master of the Modern Short Story 1.2 Anton Chekhov and his Influences 1.2.1 Nineteenth Century Russia 1.2.2 His Contemporaries 1.2.2.1 Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy 1.3 Anton Chekhov’s Mood Literature 1.3.1 Mood and Atmosphere 1.3.2 Subtle Literary Techniques 1.3.3 Criticisms of lacking any Plot 1.4 Anton Chekhov as a Humorist 1.4.1 Tragicomedy 1.4.2 Comic Relief 1.5 Anton Chekhov as a Realist
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"Eh ! bien‚ mon prince‚ Genes et Lucques ne sont plus que des apanages‚ des domaines de la famille Buonaparte..." The sentence is an opening of "War and Peace‚" an epic novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of European languages may easily find out it is written in French‚ and some of them might also think it is somewhat out of place in this Russian novel. However‚ Russian history tells that it was common among Russian aristocrats to speak French in their
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Reverend Joel Parker wanted to sue Stowe for bombarding his own character because it was “bad research and just full of lies” Sold 5‚000 copies in 2 days‚ 100‚00 by the end of summer‚ and 300‚000 by March 1853 “A model of the highest type” - Leo Tolstoy Talked about slavery‚ the Fugitive Slave Law‚ racism‚ and freedom Pro-slavery people thought Stowe was biased‚ while anti-slavery people supported the book Inspired people in ways others couldn’t‚ strongest part of her narrative was the effect slavery
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” Leo Tolstoy‚ The Kreutzer Sonata. In Scott Westerfelds novel Uglies Tally Youngblood wants to have a legally required surgery that will make her pretty. In the process she gets caught up in a rebellion against society and comes to appreciate a world where not everyone is pretty. However in an ironic twist she has to turn herself in to the authorities to be turned pretty. If one glances at a magazine or turns on the TV‚ you got
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Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however‚ like the decorative arts‚ it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they usually are not in a painting
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Realism is defined as “the quality or fact of representing a person‚ thing‚ or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life” (Dictionary). This way of displaying people or a situation in their true reality is recurrent in many works of literature. Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage‚ a realistic novel that tells the honest horrors of the battlefield. Crane used his life influences of family‚ education‚ and society to shape him into the realistic writer that we see in The Red Badge
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Article: CONTROVERSY OVER THE BHAGVAD GITA A great controversy has been going on throughout the nation over the ban of the great Hindu scripture The Bhagvad Gita in Russia. Not only the Hindus‚ but most of the people who consider the Gita as a great piece of literature also are surprised at the wave of protest showed in Russia calling it a literature that spreads social discord. It is already known to all that in a Siberian court‚ some state prosecutors have petitioned that
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veteran turned novelist.” Crane was handed essential historical knowledge in the reliable series Battles and Leaders of the Civil War published in Century magazine that would help him write his novel. Also influenced by Sebastopol‚ a war novel by Leo Tolstoy‚ Stephen Crane was ready to write a best-selling war
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of the music as a special aesthetic value is disclosed in the ratio of applied creativity and artistic purposes. Music is an art form that is designed for auditory perception. Its feature is direct and strong impact on the people. For instance‚ Leo Tolstoy said that musical art “by its nature has a direct psychological effect on the nerves”. In contrast to all the kinds of visual and verbal arts‚ music doesn’t reproduce visible pictures of the world and is deprived of the semantic specificity. That’s
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