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------------------------------------------------- Context W uthering Heights, which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, seemed to hold little promise when it was published in 1847, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews. Victorian readers found the book shocking and inappropriate in its depiction of passionate, ungoverned love and cruelty (despite the fact that the novel portrays no sex or bloodshed), and the work was virtually ignored. Even Emily Brontë’s sister Charlotte—an

John Steinbeck An American author and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., was born in Salinas, Calif., on February 27, 1902. He died on Dec. 20th, 1968. He based most of his novels on the American experience, often with sympathetic focus on the poor, the eccentric, or the dispossessed. Early Life and Works Steinbeck grew up in Salinas Valley, a rich agricultural area of Monterey County and the setting of many of his works, where he learned firsthand of the

In his novel Catcher in the rye, Salinger certainly protests against many institutions or values of american society. But above criticizing, Salinger in fact suggests a new way to behave and to see the world, which could – in his opinion – improve the society’s lot. So what message does Salinger try to communicate to the reader through his novel Catcher in the rye ? We’ll see that Salinger tries to let a message concerning a few fields as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, education and family values

write very early poems, novels, encouraged by her mother. In 1906, Agatha went to Paris to work the singing and the piano but she was very shy. So she returned in England. At the beginning of the First World War, she married with Archibal Christie. At the end of the First World War, Agatha gave birth to a daughter: Rosalind. During the First World War, she worked as a voluntary nurse, what allowed her to familiarize with poisons and other drugs which appear on her novels. During her free time

book club, the Left Book Club, where she encountered Gottfried Lessing, her second husband, with whom she had a boy. They divorced in 1949 and she fled to London with her youngest child to pursue her writing career. She published her first successful novel the same year, titled The Grass Is Singing. Her career can be divided into three phases: the Communist one (1944-1946) where she dealt with social issues, the psychological one (1956-1969) which produced The Golden Notebook and was an exploration of

Bram Stoker Introduction Dracula, by Abraham Stoker--who generally published under the abbreviated first name Bram--was first published in Great Britain in 1897. Although myths and legends about vampires had existed since ancient times, Stoker's novel synthesized much of this lore and gave it a palpable feeling in the character of Count Dracula. In fact, the character of Dracula has since become so popular that many people who were first exposed to the famous vampire through film or television do

and did part-time night work in a factory until his health failed. His first wife, the former Eileen O'Shaughnessy, died in 1945. He leaves an adopted son, Richard, in addition to his second wife. TWO NOVELS POPULAR HERE Although his literary reputation in this country rested largely on two novels published within the last four years, Mr. Orwell was considered one of the leading British novelists of the day. The enthusiasm with which the American reading public greeted Animal Farm in 1946 and Nineteen

Problematique: To what extent do Huck’s experience and environment appear as the catalyst of his quest for liberty and identity? Introduction: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain written in 1880. It tells the story of a young boy, Huckleberry Finn, who decided to escape from his legal guardian, the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, and from his father, by faking his death. During his journey he met Miss Watson’s slave, called Jim, and continued the journey together

Carrie is his first novel: it’s about a girl, named Carrie, who moves from her parents’ home to start a new and better life in the city. Life won’t be easy for her, she will have to face many barriers and disappointments of the city itself but at the end, her obstinacy will bring results and she will reach the top of the society. Materialism, including the desire for and the dependence of money, is a very important theme in Sister Carrie. Theodore Dreiser wrote in his novel: “A man’s fortune or

local color: Mark Twain William Dean Howells (1837-1920)豪威尔斯 • American writer and editor in chief (1871-1881) of the Atlantic Monthly 大西洋月刊, who encouraged a number of writers, including Mark Twain and Henry James. • He wrote many novels, e.g. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) 《西拉斯·拉帕姆的崛起,and books of literary criticism, e.g. Criticism and Fiction. Howell’s Literary Viewpoints: • Realism interprets sympathetically the “common feelings of commonplace people”. • Realism