Jack London's best novel "Martin Eden " is full of despair and fight with the failures and disappointment. It is nearly as moving as the biography of the author himself. Jack London perfectly revealed the life of the sailor and worker, which is very similar to his own life story in sp...

My reading habits have changed over the years. As a child I had more time to read than I have been able to as an adult. I had different tastes in books when I was younger as well. Even though my habits and reading preferences have changed over the years, I still enjoy it as much as I did as a youngs...

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...

The element of literature, which focuses on character, refers to the method the writer uses to create people in a story. There are two major methods of presenting characters: showing and telling. Writers use showing when they want the character to reveal themselves by what they say and do. In contra...

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...

Amy Tan is a great writer who must be considered a part of the literary cannon because she has been a major force in highlighting the issues facing the Chinese and immigrant community in the United States. But Amy herself doesn't want to be labeled as a Asian American writer and thus instead of ...

Flannery O'Connor"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O' Connor's career spanned the 1950s and early '60s, a time when the South was dominated by Protestant Christians. O'Connor was born and raised Catholic. She was a fundamentalist and a Christian ...

OutlineThesis: The Cask of Amontillado is about revenge.I.IntroductionII.Psychoanalytical Criticism A.Poe's Revenge1.Father2.MotherIII.New CriticismA.Irony of Revenge1.Controlled2.StructuredIV.New HistoricismA.History's view of Revenge1.Poe's Time2.Critic's TimeV.Comparison of New Criticism and New ...

THE REALISTIC PERIOD REALISM IN THE WORK OF TWAIN, JAMES AND HOWELLS OBJECTIVE The objective of this work is to research and examine the period of literary history as to the major historical events, overall themes, and innovative forms of writing. The three authors chosen for this work...

Born May 15, 1890, in Indian Creek, Texas; Katherine Anne Porter has written numerous short stories and a novel. Katherine Anne Porter uses autobiographical information and symbolism to relate the story of Miranda's maturation into adulthood in her short story "The Grave." In &qu...

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...

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...

Bartleby the Scrivener "Bartleby the Scrivener" is an interesting tale of a pathetic man whoseems to have no reason for living, and the lawyer/narrator who takes himin. The narrator is a lawyer on Wall Street, who knew and worked withBartleby, and who befriended him. The narrator begins the 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...

The use of literature as a learning catalyst is not a new approach.As early as 1993, researchers Kathy Short and Junardi Armstrong pointed outthat literature should be used as more than just a way to get facts.Rather, literature could be "an integral part of children's inquiry andmeaning const...

Thesis: Sarah Orne Jewett, a native of Maine, was one of the first and most skilled members of the local color movement in literature.I.The Life of Sarah Orne JewettA.Looking BackB.The rise and fallII.Jewett's Style of WritingA.Why write?B.Style of WritingC.How it affects today's literatureIII.The C...

Female Authors and the Portrayal of WomenIn writing, each individual has a unique style; one that they can call their own. The kind of style and the quality of the story is what separates a good writer from an extraordinary writer. As part of my research process, I have read a number of bookswritten...

Fiction is usually thought of as prose, while poetry is given a separate classification. Essays are a form of prose usually differing from fiction in that the essay is considered a real document and not a tale. The distinction among these three forms is not always that clear, and often the genres ...