TheCambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950--2000
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TheCambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950--2000
The name that comes most readily to mind in a consideration of the state and the novel is George Orwell. His two most famous political fables, Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), have proved hugely significant in the post-war world, influencing many subsequent literary dystopias, and also supplementing our use of language. Terms like ‘Big Brother’, ‘doublethink’ and ‘unperson’ from Nineteen Eighty- Four have become part of the contemporary political lexicon. It is also possible to see the cautionary note of these novels as establishing a liberal
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Notorious Nineteen
By JANET EVANOVICH
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Best known for tackling controversial issues through richly told fictional accounts, Jodi Picoult's 14th novel, Nineteen Minutes, deals with the truth and consequences of a smalltown high-school shooting. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Picoult offers reads a glimpse of what would cause a 17-year-old to wake up one day, load his backpack with four guns, and kill nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. As with any Picoult novel, the answers are never black and white, and it is her exceptional ability to blur the lines between right and wrong
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field.
In an essay of prophetic vision, Lukacs defines a critical realism: 'anyone who wants to become more intimately acquainted with the prehistory of the important ideologies of the [nineteen-] twenties and thirties ...will be helped by a critical reading of this book.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.