Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values: Robert M. Pirsig: 9780061673733: Amazon.com. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: 5th Anniversary Edition: Stephen Jay Schneider: 9780764161513: Amazon.com. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: Peter Boxall, Peter Ackroyd: 9780789313706: Amazon.com. Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel) Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 historical novel by Joan Lindsay. The plot focuses on a group of female students at an Australian women's college in 1900 who inexplicably vanish at the site of an enormous rock formation while on a Valentine's Day picnic, and also explores the outlying effects the girls' disappearance has on the community.
The novel has been oft discussed and debated due to its inexorably ambiguous ending. Lindsay wrote the novel over a four-week period[1] at her home Mulberry Hill in Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. It was first published in 1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was released in paperback by Penguin in 1970. The Hanging Rock formation has fascinated visitors for generations. This painting by William Ford was made in 1875. The disappearances provoke much local concern and international sensation with sexual molestation, abduction and murder being high on the list of possible outcomes. Through the Looking-Glass. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (4 May),[a] uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November (the day before Guy Fawkes Night),[b] uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. Plot summary[edit] Alice entering the Looking Glass. Illustration by Sir John Tenniel Tenniel illustration of Tweedledum (centre) and Tweedledee (right) and Alice (left). 1871) Red King snoring, by John Tenniel Characters[edit] Symbolism[edit] An Incomplete Education: 3, 684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't: Judy Jones, William Wilson: 9780345468901: Amazon.com.
An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew out Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human: Richard Zacks: 9780385483766: Amazon.com. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Wise Up!: Amazing Facts and Incredible Information (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers): Bathroom Readers' Institute: 9781607100379: Amazon.com. The Book of General Ignorance: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd: 9780307394910: Amazon.com. Book of Secrets: Thomas Eaton: 9780740777547: Amazon.com. Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things: Charles Panati: 9780060964191: Amazon.com. The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy: Rick Beyer: 9780060014018: Amazon.com. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel: Amy Hempel, Rick Moody: 9780743291637: Amazon.com.
Interpreter of Maladies. Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List. The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World.
" The Stories[edit] "A Temporary Matter""When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine""Interpreter of Maladies""A Real Durwan""Sexy""Mrs. Story Summaries and Analysis[edit] This Blessed House[edit] Sanjeev and Twinkle, a newly married couple, are exploring their new house in Hartford, which appears to have been owned by fervent Christians: they keep finding gaudy Biblical paraphernalia hidden throughout the house. Interpreter of Maladies[edit] Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Mr. As Mrs. Analysis[edit] Mrs. Two Girls Fat and Thin: Mary Gaitskill: 9780684843124: Amazon.com. The Interestings: A Novel: Meg Wolitzer: 9781594488399: Amazon.com. Was She Pretty?: Leanne Shapton: Amazon.com. Wanderlust: A History of Walking: Rebecca Solnit: 9780140286014: Amazon.com. Drown: Junot Diaz: 9781573226066: Amazon.com. One Hundred Years of Solitude. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia.
Biography and publication[edit] Gabriel García Márquez was one of the four Latin American novelists first included in the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s; the other three writers were the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the Argentine Julio Cortázar, and the Mexican Carlos Fuentes. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) earned García Márquez international fame as a novelist of the Magical Realism movement within the literatures of Latin America.[4] Plot[edit] One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. Symbolism and metaphors[edit] The fate of Macondo is both doomed and predetermined from its very existence. Characters[edit] Amaranta.