Something about Charles Dickens and his ability to take his reader to unbelievable places with his imaginative powers allows him the honor of being the most popular English novelist of the 19th century. Dickens has thrilled his readers for many years with his down-to-earth stories about real people ...

Fantasy literature is the product of the author¡s imagination. They used their creativity to create the story. Fantasy literature is mostly about adventures and quests. Fantasy literature is aimed at children and teenagers. They don¡t understand the meaning of life. Fantasy literature could help t...

What is it that after all these years that can keep a reader glued to a novel? What is it that keeps the pages of a novel flipping? What is it that can make an hour seem like ten minutes? The answer is suspense: each novel of this genre constantly repeats the same steps over and over, yet each ...

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...

Ray Bradbury is an accomplished American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. His writing style is like none other. Some say he is a science fiction writer; however, others argue that he merely uses the far-out setting to criticize racism, censorship, technolog...

William Faulkner Many great writers are criticized about the way they write there: novels, poems, essays, etc. Even some of the skilled writers are criticized, William Faulkner was a great writer that wrote several novels but was not criticized that much about the way he wrote. Although Faulkner...

Characters in a work of literature are sometimes configured from a pure brilliant sense of imagination. Other times they can be a reflection of the author portraying herself in a character form. This is the case in the works of Jane Austen. Austen's many authentic ...

Ray Bradbury is more than just a legendary American novelist. He is also a short story writer, essayist, playwright screenwriter, poet, an owner of four cats, a father to four daughters, a grandfather to eight grandchildren, and he was a husband to Maggie until her death in November of 2003. They we...

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth king. His father, a merchant seaman, walked out on the family in 1950. His mother struggled with a number of low-paying jobs to support him and his adopted brother, David. As a child, Stephen Kin...

Hemingway's Iceberg In the works of Ernest Hemingway, prose style is as important to the work as the content. Hemingway's style includes the use of short, choppy sentences that are descriptive and have underlying meanings that are integral to the work. Hemingway uses this technique, th...

The Advantages of a First-Person Perspective in Literature There are several angles in which an author can tell a story. Writing a story in the first-person perspective, though, is the best angle because it has many advantages for both the reader and the author of the story. The reader will lea...

Risky, Ambitious, and Brilliant is the way to describe this author's works and life. As a contemporary American novelist and short-story writer he uses his characters to express his life throughout the war. One of his most recent works is "In the Lake of the Woods". All of his writing...

The Rainmaker The world is full of great novels. From Sherlock Holmes to the three musketeers. As the years progress more novels are written and more money is made. John Grisham is a rising star in literature. His books have enticed readers and has given the people something good to r...

The Rainmaker The world is full of great novels. From Sherlock Holmes to the three musketeers. As the years progress more novels are written and more money is made. John Grisham is a rising star in literature. His books have enticed readers and has given the people something good to read. What mak...

Truman Capote, one of America's more colorful literary personalities, was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction -- short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. His work of fiction that i...

As I lay Dying William Faulkner was born in 1897 to a southern family is Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner has written a substantial amount of short stories and novels from his little farm in Oxford. As I Lay Dying, a novel by Faulkner has received much praise and was ranked in 1992 as one of ...

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, a suburb of London, to a lower-middle-class family. He attended London University and the Royal College of Science where he studied zoology. One of his professors instilled in him a belief in social as well as biological evolution which Wells later c...

As a condensed version of Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man extracts epiphanic moments of Stephen's life to form a baseline of the development of Stephen from a young child to a budding artist. While all the epiphanies only take up a small fraction of Stephen's life, he...

Marquez, Solitude and Imperialism Imperialism is a policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations, Whereas solitude is the state or quality of being alone or remote f...

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen created one of literature's greatest pieces in 1813, titled Pride and Prejudice. Austen's novel is centered mostly in Longbourn, outside London. This is a rare work, including both romance and satire. Austen proves that she is truly one of the great...

For almost three decades, Michael Crichton has written novels that appeal to his reader=s imagination and take a firm hold of their pocketbooks. Crichton=s writing stands out as much as his 6=9@ frame. He has become one of the most widely read and bought science fiction authors of the past three...

For many centuries, the Western Canon of literary works has set a standard for education by presenting the great and outstanding literary works of the past. As multiculturalism and equality thrive in the new millennium, the validity of the seemingly racially and sexually discriminating canon is bei...

Mankind has always been in search of something more meaningful than we can truly comprehend, when in actuality, there really isn't anything we can truly comprehend to begin with. Mankind is plummeting towards an unknown destiny of prosperity or devastation and there is truly nothing we can do or say...

THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner's background influenced him to write the unconventional novel The Sound and the Fury. One important influence on the story is that Faulkner grew up in the South. The Economist magazine states that the main source of his inspiration was the passionate history...

Having a strong heart like Elinor and a latent sense similar to Marianne, Jane Austen displayed her characteristics through her characters. Elinor and Marianne were two main characters that Jane Austen used to display her true character. Elinor is very devoted to her family and tries to do everyth...