My fascination with the Judicial System Structure of today's society was furthered and strengthened after reading and analyzing the works of Edward Greenspan. This superbly written biography recollecting past cases and important events in Greenspan's life allowed myself, the reader, to learn more ...

This is the biography of John Champlin Gardner, Jr., an American writer, who was born in Batavia, New York. He was a teacher, lecturer, and prolific writer of fiction, children's books, poetry, radio plays, and scholarly medieval studies. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, graduated i...

"After Mrs Rochester" is based on the life of the novelist Jean Rhys, best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. The novel is the prequel to Jane Eyre and tells the story of the earlier life of Mr Rochester's wife Bertha Mason, the "mad woman in the attic". The play begins with the older Je...

Oroonoko cannot be classified as fact or fiction, realism or romance. In the still unshaped field of prose narrative – where a "history" could mean any story, true or false – Behn combines the attractions of three older forms. First, she presents the work as a memoir. According...

The Monster's Society Frankenstein sets its self apart as being one of the most unique novels in the institute of English literature. Looking deeper into the story, you realize that it is not just a gothic tale about a monster that everyone is familiar with. Mary Shelley presents many ideas about...

Margaret Atwood: 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' (1994) BIOGRAPHY • Born in Ottawa, Ontario, 1939 • Studied at the University of Toronto, then took her masters degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, in 1962 • Canada's most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes shor...

Jane Austen's novel Emma is basically a biography. As Jane Austen matured through her childhood years, she acquired many talents which are reflected through the character Emma. Jane Austen lived in the popular image of Victorian society. Many critics agree that Jane Austen bases her no...

Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding is a novel that is identical to a soap opera. This book deals with everything from treachery to lust to deceit. He writes about a man and woman's love for one another and that nothing can stand in their way. Class separates them and they will not let that stop...

In Flaubert's Parrot, Geoffrey Braithwaite constantly asks the question, "How do we seize the past?" Throughout the course of the novel, Braithwaite briefly mentions moments regarding his late-wife, Ellen. However, he expands upon moments of Madame Bovary. Due to the sudden death of Ellen Braithw...

The three novels read by us so far are dealing with the issue of oppression. Problems, which the characters in these novels have to deal with, portray many similarities, whether it has racist, sexist or any other kind of discrimination underlying it. The people affected by the issue are so different...

Analysis of "A Rose For Emily" William Faulkner was born in 1897 and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He studied for a while at the University of Mississippi. He also worked as the postmaster in Oxford until he was fired when people stopped receiving their mail. During World War I he m...

Timothy Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright, who was one of Canada's most famous writers. He was born in 1930 Toronto and was raised in the Rosedale district. He self educated himself after grade 10, after which he pursued a career in the arts, studying dance and acting despite his parent...

In every society there is a middle class. Individuals in this category don\'t have the luxuries that the elite few have, but they are far from living on the streets. They are stuck in the middle. There has to be some sort of influence that makes the middle class people think that way. One such influ...

Born on the eleventh day of September in 1885, David Herbert Lawrence was the fourth child of an illiterate coal miner. Lawrence was raised in a small mining town of Eastwood, Nottingham by his mother who happened to be a school a teacher. Threw his childhood David Herbert shared a very close relat...

"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and s...

Criticizing (or Praising) the AuthorAn author may never know if their creation will be popular, liked, or just plain forgotten, but they can rely on one simple fact, that no matter what eventually someone is going to read their book and criticize it in one way or another. There are many different w...

AbstractJohn Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in (1945). He is a novelist of ambition who cherished all works of literature of high imagination as well as craft and experimentation. He turned to literature itself as a source of imagination and aspiration for his fiction.Banville's novels offer ...