Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 20 April 2010
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Have a Little Faith: A True Story
Clear some space on your bookshelf for Mitch Albom's, Have a Little Faith, the story of a faith journey that could become a classic. Those who were born into faith, have lost faith, or are still searching will all be engaged and challenged by this powerful story of "finding faith" in relationships with others and with something greater than ourselves. Never satisfied with easy answers or soft platitudes, Mitch explores some of life's greatest mysteries and unanswered questions with great honesty, depth and self reflection.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel of such profound power that it has affected the lives of readers and left an indelible mark on American culture. This rich collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary captures the essence of the novel's impact, making it an ideal resource for students, teachers, and library media specialists. Drawing on multi-disciplinary sources, the casebook places the issues of race, censorship, stereotyping, and heroism into sharp perspective.
Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 18 April 2010
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Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener" is one of Melville's most famous stories. It is also one of the most difficult to interpret. For decades, critics have argued over numerous interpretations of the story. Melville wrote "Bartleby" at a time when his career seemed to be in ruins, and the story reflects his pessimism. The narrator, a successful Wall Street lawyer, hires a scrivener named Bartleby to copy legal documents,but he is a scrivener with a difference...
Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Added by: genuis_tariq | Karma: 16.17 | Fiction literature | 18 April 2010
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Gabriel Garcia MarquezGabriel García Márquez is best known for his novels One Hundred Yea of Solitude, and Love in the Time of Cholera.
This new short novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, told with elegance and grace, leaves the reader with a sense of something pure and moving and poignant, and very human. The latest novel by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been banned in Iran - but only after censo noticed its title had been sanitised. The book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, was published in Fai as Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts.
Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 17 April 2010
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Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ...He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security, which its members have built. He develops to extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and on the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress.