Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century.
* An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US).
* Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts.
* Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction.
* Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two bizarre narratives - the 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland' and 'The End of the World' parts. Все тени умирают в Городе. Иначе от них останется нежить, которая уходит в Лес. Именно там живут люди, которые не смогли до конца убить свою тень... ...Череп пропал еще в 42-м, во время блокады Ленинграда, когда немцы разбомбили университет.
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The Brothers Karamazov is the last novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November of 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after publication.
Added by: otherwordly | Karma: 222.42 | Fiction literature | 12 August 2008
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BITING IS SO LAST SEASON.
A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively shades of pink to dismal black (soo not her color), plus she's a hopeless romantic. In need of a steady paycheck to support a compulsive cosmetics habit, Lil starts Dead End Dating (DED), a Manhattan-based matchmaking service that helps smart, sophisticated singles like herself find eternity mates - and may even help her stake a claim to her very own Count Right!
