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The Color Purple was constructed in the epistolary form, which was more common in the 18th and 19th centuries particularly with the Gothic novelists, and Walker has been credited for the resurrection of this type of novel.

In using this approach,

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Once every few years we find a book that is so astounding that we have an uncontrollable need to share it with the world. I believe that Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us is one of these books.

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Here are about four very short reviews on four books I have recently read. They are also rated and a "winner" of the four is chosen at the end of the review post. I got this from Malin over at infektia.net and began doing my own. I believe we are the only ones who do this but I could be wrong. These are also four books that I recommend ever

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There were a ton of great moments in television, music, literature and movies this year, but what were they? Do you remember them?rnrnWhat would you rank as the top 10 pop culture events of 2007? The Sopranos season finale has to be one most people's lists.rnrnI give you my list, one that I think is pretty solid, and I'd love to see

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A long time ago, when war was man’s way of decision and bravery, sacrifice and patriotism were not mere epithets, an era where men strived to be heroes, and women mother of braves. Life, when it was peaceful used to be showered with endless mercies of Almighty, and joy reigned supreme,O ye all, I am but telling you all about Iran and her brav

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The serpent night slithered its dark demons,
and trees swayed laden heavy with its vices,
the wind howled,guilty,in demonic guises
Windows shut,conscience killed,
lights gone, not a soul reeled.

An excellent piece, written sometime ago. Had been a huge hit, with people from South East Asia who are familiar with this story.

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While on Christmas vacation I read The Stone Raft, my first encounter with the unusual style of Jose Saramago, the Portuguese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. The stone raft of the title refers to the Iberian peninsula, which is set adrift in the Atlantic Ocean after the Pyrenees mountains split down the

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The Grapes of Wrath is a strongly sustained social and political narrative that provides and accurate and faithful description of a critical period in American history. The novel is a post-depression novel and the writer John Steinbeck&r

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Franz Kafka e Praga di Virginia Foderaro - Esiste una città capace di restare impressa sul cuore dei suoi visit

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FameCrawler favorite Halle Berry didn't win. But my girl Alicia Keys and my secret boyfriend Denzel Washington did.

And here's why the NAACP Image Awards kicks ass over other awards shows: They actually have a category for Literature, which means that awesome writers like Walter Mosley and Nikki Giovanni get recognized.

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This post is a review of the third book in the "Javier Falcon" series by Robert Wilson. Falcon is a homicide inspector in Seville, Spain, and he suspects trouble when an unusual murder is discovered.

The review gives an overview of the various political and criminal forces in play, and also recommends reading the series i

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In this post I have pointed out the ways in which Henry Fielding has presented realism in his novel 'Joseph Andrews'. He was the pioneer of realism in English fiction. Both Fielding and Richardson were broadly speaking realists. Fielding also reacted against Richardson’s sentimentalism as a falsifying influence on the study o

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What is justice? Is it definable? Let’s try. Is it impartiality? Or is it being fair? The concept of justice is actually a subjective one and also entails at the same time being objective in judgment. Justice according to some is getting a fair treatment, while for others it is getting justice being delivered in courts. But a q

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Rabindra Nath Tagore (1861 - 1941), the celebrated poet, story writer and dramatist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. ‘Gitanjali’ (‘song offerings’), is a collection of 103 poems. Originally written in Bengali, they were translated in English by Tagore himself. The characteristic feature of the collection is th

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