Often in novels, the life of an author is reflected in his or her literature. For a writer experience can serve not only as a teacher, but also as the foundation of a story line. Some of the most well known authors have used this Romana Clef technique, for example, Charles Dickens in h...

Literature, to me, is much more than words in a book, poem, or magazine. Literature is a way for me to escape the real world and become who and where I am reading. My favorite author is Louis L'amour because he really takes me back to an uncivilized, dangerous wild west. L'amour not onl...

Joseph Conrad: An Innovator in British Literature Joseph Conrad's innovative literature is influenced by his experiences in traveling to foreign countries around the world. Conrad's literature consists of the various styles of techniques he uses to display his well-recognized work...

War and Peace – one of the greatest novels in the world, written by giant of Russian literature count Leo Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy, the son of Count Nicholas Tolstoy, was born in 1828 at the family estate Yasnaya Polyana about 100 miles south of Moscow. His greatest novel War and Peace was publish...

In the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cath...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is a novel about love and marriage among the Russian aristocracy in the 1870s. Anna is young, beautiful woman married to a powerful government minister, Karenin. She falls in love with the elegant Count Vronsky and after becoming pregnant by him, leaves her husband Karen...

Throughout the course of human literature new styles and eras rise and fall due to the fickleness and uncertainty of the public. Eventually a new book comes along, the perfect book, the book that bridges the gap between two literary eras and starts a new literary movement all in one publication. At ...

The film representation's simple cinematography and dialog accurately capture the mood created in Chekhov's story, but it fails in other areas. The motives and thoughts of the characters could not be easily discovered, as the film focused on carrying on the plot with little attention give...

Part One The Catcher in the Rye and Depression The classic novel, The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, was published in the 1940's and instantly became a hit. The Catcher in the Rye is ...