Ever since this novel was published in 1951, it has been shrouded in controversy. Author J.D. Salinger was born in New York City in 1919, and lived in a stylish neighborhood as the son of a wealthy cheese importer. Salinger's body of work includes many short stories and compellations, but ...

"All Kinds of Fur" In Vladimir Propp's famous study, The Morphology of the Folk Tale, he outlined thirty-one basic functions that constitute the formation of a paradigm, which was and still is common in Europe and North America. Although Propp's categories do not discuss the s...

Steinbeck' s The Pearl was based on a story he had heard during his expedition with a friend to the Gulf of California about a poor Mexican fisherman who found a pearl which he though would guarantee his future happiness, but however it almost destroyed him before he threw it back into the ocean ...