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Compare Arabian Nights and Days and Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
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Cairo-born writer Naguib Mahfouz has written almost forty novels and in 1988 became the first Arab writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature and since the awarding of the prize, several of his works have been republished in new ...
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THE LOOMING TOWER
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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This is surely the most thorough account available of "Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11". It is also the most readable, a remarkable feat given that it presents a welter of ...
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Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Critics on Sometimes a Great Notion
Most critics who have investigated Sometimes a Great Notion have interpreted Hank as an "absurd hero" who struggles, like Sisyphus, against the uncaring universe. In the existentialist world-view the struggle itself, not the goal struggled for, is what ...
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
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Few readers have been able to resist Jane Austen's remarkable second published novel. Pride and Prejudice bring an utterly charming, headstrong heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and a hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is undervalued and misunderstood until the novel's impassioned climax, when reader and heroine alike change ...
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“Rocky”- An in Depth Analysis of the American Dream
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Rocky is a film more ambitious and pernicious as it seems at first and this for reasons relating to both the international context and convulsions that agitate the U.S. society at that time. The film is indeed in a particular historical context. ...
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“Death of a Salesman”
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
To understand the literature, and the period it belongs to, it is essential to go through the book in the context of the Modernism literature, and Postmodernism literature to get a better idea. In addition to this, the periods themselves should ...
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T. S. ELLIOT
T. S. Elliot
T. S. Elliot
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Thomas Stearns Eliot, known as TS Eliot (St. Louis, Missouri, September 26 of 1888, London, January 4 of 1965) was a poet, playwright and literary critic Anglo - American. He represented one of the summits of poetry in English of the twentieth century. ...
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The Crying of Lot 46
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The Crying of Lot 49 is Pynchon's briefest book and the one with the least convoluted plot, although it contains plenty of twists and turns. Oedipa Maas, a bored California housewife, is informed that she is the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a former ...
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Thinking as a Hobby by William Golding
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Golding works depict the instant when the last remnants of hopeful belief in evolutionary progress disintegrated under the risk of atomic annihilation. In conceiving these works, Golding moved classic British tradition of the innovative ahead in both the prescribed and stylistic methods ...
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Relationship between God and Woman/Man
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The essay that is being presented in this paper is regarding depiction of the relationship between God and man/woman. The literary works that have been analyzed for this essay are by two famous personalities and authors, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempee. Both the authors have ...