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Literature and books |
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| Denial And Belief In Lazarus By Leonid Andreyev |
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Leonied Andreyev's short story Lazarus begins with a celebration of life, which is also a denial of death. Later in the story this denial is crushed and death emerges victorious over everything.
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| "Through the Looking-Glass" By Lewis Carroll |
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"Through the Looking-Glass" is the second book dedicated to Alice and her wonderful adventures in her dreams. This time Alice finds herself inside a weird chess game and meets a lot of funny characters who do and say strange things and recite a lot of poems. At last she becomes a Queen, though it doesn't make her life in the looking-glass world much easier.
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| Women and the Law in the Crucible, the Scarlet Letter, and to Kill a Mockingbird |
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Elena Kagan's recent confirmation to the US Supreme Court is a powerful reminder of just how far women have come in the American legal system; from being disenfranchised until 1920 to being unable to serve as jurors nationwide until 1975, women have a long history of being either unfairly sentenced or largely ignored by the law. In an interesting twist, however, underprivileged women have managed to manipulate the legal system throughout history to their own, often desperate ends. Here to demons...
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| "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll |
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a beautiful and cozy fairy tale that has been making generations of children and adults alike smile and feel happier. Very unusual for the genre, it's not really a fairy tale, but a child's dream - too logical and clear for a dream, but way too muddled and crazy for our boring real world.
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| Review - 'A Day's Wait' by Ernest Hemingway |
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A day's wait is an excellent story written by 'Ernest Hemingway'. This simple story revolves round a nine year old child named "Schatz", his father and his doctor. The story excellently portrays the emotions of fears in the mind of an innocent nine year old child.
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| "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte |
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"Jane Eyre" was the joy of my childhood - the book that supported me when I was sad and inspired my imagination when I was feeling creative. Needless to say, in those days I read it in Russian - the original came later, much later. But the translation was good.
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| Vampires and Twentieth Century Literature |
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The idea for using vampires as characters in the literary works of the twentieth century was taken from the famous Dracula by Bram Stoker. The novel was then adapted into cinema which was an emerging medium during that time period. Stoker's work, however, was not restricted to the horror and Gothic novels with the description of ghastly deaths and incidents dealing with the dark.
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| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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I finished this amazing novel admittedly a few days before deciding I would start this 100 books, 1 year thing. But because I finished it so close to when I came up with my ingenious plan, I see no reason not to include it. I don't think that many people have really heard of it, but it's a novel by Betty Smith about a girl growing up poor in Brooklyn in the early 1900s.
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