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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Thirst for knowledge and wide reading, particularly in the fields of history and archaeology, disposed Sigrid Undset early in life to a career as a researcher into and chronicler of past ages. Coming from an academic...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Margaret Mitchell wrote only one novel, Gone with the Wind, but it proved to be the most popular novel of her generation. At the time of her death in 1949, 3,800,000 copies were in print, and it continues to attract a...
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From: The Sewanee ReviewWe live in an age of literary tabloids, and Sienkiewicz created leviathans.... His huge canvases are covered with figures whose strange Polish names are discouraging if not repellent to us.... Moreover, Sienkiewicz's...
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From: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester[In the following essay, Munro examines the publishing histories of two little-known works by Dumas, the historical romance Le comte de Moret and the drama Pietro Tasca. This article is primarily concerned with the...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Winter 1991) In the following essay, Parks applies recent critical theory to a study of the political and historical elements of Doctorow's fiction.] "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy,"...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)An Italian novelist, critic, and academic, who studied philosophy at the University of Turin, Umberto Eco's thesis subject on an aspect of medieval philosophy eventually provided the basis for his first book, Il problema...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersChristopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier are a brother team of writers who are best known for two historical fiction trilogies about adolescents growing up in New England during the American Revolution and the early...
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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date fall 1993) In the following essay, Sepich argues that Blood Meridian's Judge Holden is in many ways a metaphor for Satan, and that the eventual death of "the kid" is the inevitable result of his association...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)A schoolboy gazes out the classroom window at the playground while a teacher rambles on about Henry VIII. The boy in question is Willy Chapman, the mild-mannered proprietor in Graham Swift's The Sweet Shop Owner, and the...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Canada's foremost Mennonite writer, and one of the most innovative writers of historical fiction today, Rudy Wiebe has consistently addressed far-reaching moral, social, and spiritual questions through narratives that...
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From: The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan[(essay date 1970) In the following introduction to a reprint of The Clansman, Clark places the novel in its historical context.] The first thing to be said in discussing Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s novel The Clansman is that...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Robert Graves's prolific writings in prose and verse express his own conflicting characteristics. He is at once a romantic primitivist and a classicist; a seeker of ecstasy and of formal perfection. Committed to the life...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Although a prolific author with recognizable stances, Gore Vidal is among the most versatile of contemporary American writers. In scholarly novels about ancient-world potentates, in doomsday fictions, in a playfully...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Howard Fast has written in virtually every genre—novels, plays, poems, filmscripts, critical essays and short stories—and in a number of subgenres of fiction, including science fiction, social satire, historical and...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Hugh Walpole is a comparatively prolific author of fiction—mainly novels—who began writing before World War I but whose reputation received a considerable boost from a long article by Henry James in the Times Literary...
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From: The British Quarterly Review[The following excerpt, taken from a review of a multi-volume edition of Dumas's historical romances, represents a resounding condemnation of the author and his works. First, the reviewer comments upon Dumas's...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Beloved, Toni Morrison's fifth novel, originated from a nineteenth-century newspaper article she read while doing research in 1974. The article focused on a fugitive slave, Margaret Garner, who had run away with her four...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)Anthony Burgess would seem to be at first glance a less focused, less committed, more sentimental George Orwell: he was a teacher and critic with socialist interests mixed with a dislike of colonialism and a cynicism...
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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Marguerite Yourcenar's contribution to 20th-century French literature reflects both her classical upbringing and her extensive travels. Although she declared that her work was separate from the philosophical and literary...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Begun soon after James Joyce finished writing Ulysses (1922) and continuing many topics from the earlier works, Finnegans Wake acts as a culmination of them and provides Joyce's ``last word'' on many topics. Obscurity...