Jane Austen's classic is not merely a story of Emma Woodhouse's journey of self discovery, nor is it just a tale of country romance, but rather, Emma chronicles the anxiety of its time: the destabilization of the classes. As the Industrial Revolution allowed for the democratization of money, more an...

"The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by their best friends, under...

Roddy Doyle is an amazing writer and is seen by his friends as a studious-looking and down-to-earth kind of guy. He is one of the new breed of young Irish artists who came of age in the 1960's and 1970's. Roddy Doyle was born in May of 1958 in the northern Dublin suburb of Kilbarrack, ...

After reading both novels Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass I can now compare and contrast both authors and their way of interpreting slave life to the reader. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh child of a famous protestant preac...

The book I read for my Specialist Study was Killing the Shadows written by Val McDermid. The book is about an academic psychologist, Fiona Cameron, who uses computers to help track serial offenders. I expected this book to have undeveloped characters and a very basic plot, some one gets murdered t...

Daniel Defoe's acclaimed novel, Robinson Crusoe, is not only a great adventurous novel, but an amazing reflection of Defoe's moral beliefs, personal experiences, and political battles with the English monarchy. Throughout the course of this novel, references to defoe's own experience...

'Discuss the ways in which the setting is important to a novel you have studied this year' - English Patient Michael Ondaatje's fiction novel 'The English Patient' is set in two different places in a sense. Firstly, in reality, Hana, Caravaggio, Kip and Almasy himself...