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To help provide for his growing family, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol over a period of three weeks in 1843.
Creating the characters of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim, Dickens also made famous the descriptive word "Humbug! " His tale of transformation is still popular during the holiday season and has often been produced for film. This version, from 1984, features George C. Chrestomanci Castle:Diana Wynne Jones. Diana Wynne Jones died on 25 March, 2011, after a long battle with cancer.
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Since it was published in 1937, it's been banned about as often as it's been assigned. Why? Take your pick, really. Killing. Violence. Set in the American West during the Great Depression, the book is based on Steinbeck's experiences during a 1936 assignment for the San Francisco News covering the migrant workers in California. Welcome to Garth Nix official website - garthnix.co.uk. Welcome to Bernard Ashley Online.
Sharon Creech. Journey's End. Sherriff considered calling it "Suspense" and "Waiting", but eventually found a title in the closing line of a chapter of an unmentioned book: "It was late in the evening when we came at last to our journey's end.
"[1] Plot summary[edit] Act I[edit] In the British trenches before St Quentin, Captain Hardy converses with Lieutenant Osborne, an older man and public school master, who has come to relieve him. Private Mason, a servant cook, is forever not caring about the lack of ingredients and quality of food he serves up. Stanhope has a keen sense of duty and feels that he must continue to serve rather than take leave to which he is entitled. Act II[edit] Scene 1[edit] Paul Jennings. Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656+ fables - Welcome To Seussville! Peoples Book Prize - showcase for new authors UK.
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C. Auguste Dupin, hero of a bunch of stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe, as well as a very few others detectives, came before. Poe invented the classic formula: the super-smart private detective and his less smart (but more literary) narrator buddy, amazing leaps of logic that prove to be right, and a bumbling cop who can never quite seem to get it right. So, props to Poe. Though Holmes may not be the first detective in fiction, but we kind of think he's the best. Holmes wasn't instantly popular by any means. Animal Farm. Move over, Babe and Wilbur: there's a new talking pig in town.
In fact, there are a lot of talking pigs. And talking horses and birds and cows, for that matter. YouTube - Gone Book Trailer. Lord of the Flies. Before The Hunger Games, there was William Golding's 1954 Lord of the Flies.
Well, okay, before there was The Hunger Games, there was reality TV and the 1996 Japanese novel (and later move) Battle Royale. But you have to admit, the premise is similar: a bunch of kids end up on an island/ arena and turn into vicious savages in about, oh, five minutes. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Biography and Works. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), English author wrote the Gothic horror story Frankenstein or; The Modern Prometheus (1818); “I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.” --Ch. 16 Started as a ghost story and inspired by a conversation Shelley had overheard between her husband Percy Bysshe Shelly and Lord George Gordon Byron talking about galvanism, it soon became one of the first best selling works by a female author. Welcome to MegCabot.com. Welcome to annecassidy.com.
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