Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Summary of: "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Basil Howard a painter draws a portrait of a young man, that becomes the best thing he has ever done. Dorian Gray who has been painted discovers for the first time how good he looks by seeing his portrait. Being at Basil’s house Dorian meets...

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Nizami: Layla and Majnun (Study Guide)
Study Guide for Nizami: Layla and Majnun (1188) Source: The Story of Layla and Majnun, by Nizami. Trans. R. Gelpke. OmegaPublications, 256 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, NY 12125. Phone: 800-443-7107 or518 794-8181. ISBN #0-930872-52-5. Begin by reading the first two pages of the "Postscript"...

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Brown, Christy: My left Foot
Marcus Meisel , 8C my left foot by Christy Brown Author: "My Left Foot" was written by Christy Brown, who was born in Doublin, Ireland, in the Rotunda Hospital, on June 5th 1932. His father was a bricklayer in Doublin, his...

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Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
William Golding "Lord of the Flies" 1., Novel William Golding "Lord of the Flies" 2., Author William Golding He was born in 1911 in Cornwall, England. He studied literature at Oxford; later earning his money as a schoolmaster; joined the Royal Navy in...

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Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
William Golding`s Lord of the Flies: The role of nature Introduction The story takes place on an unspoiled island that effectively isolates the characters from the rest of the world, especially the one of the grown-ups. Golding creates a mini-world and by making us look closely at...

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Poetry of Mystical Love (Study Guide)
Study Guide for Poetry of Mystical Love The notion of fusing sexuality with religious devotion strikes many readers as surprising, but it is in fact an ancient theme, common in a wide variety of mystical traditions. In all of them the union of human and divine is expressed through metaphors...

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Study Guide for Classical LovePoetry
Study Guide for Classical LovePoetry Sources:Barnstone, Willis, trans. Greek Lyric Poetry. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1967. Carrier, Constance, trans. The Poems of Propertius . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. Kate Farrell: Art & Love: An...

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Classic English Love Poems (Study Guide)
Study Guide for Classic English Love Poems Note: a few poems which are not in the public domain do not have links here. You`ll have to read them in a book. Shakespeare: "Sonnet XXX" What sorts of things does the poet say he thinks of during his "sessions of sweet silentthought?" Why do both...

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Love Poems from the New Kingdom of AncientEgypt (S
Study Guide for "Love Poems from the New Kingdom of AncientEgypt" These poems are taken from John L. Foster: Love Songs of the New Kingdom (New York: Scribner, 1974). However, other editions are available. Barbara Hughes Fowler: Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt (Chapel Hill: University of North...

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Love Poems by Modern Women (Study Guide)
Study Guide for Love Poems by Modern Women Source: Wendy Mulford, ed.: Love Poems by Women. New York: Fawcett, 1991. There are many passages in these poems that I don`t claim to understand completely; but try to discern the feelings and patterns they contain even if you can`t explain every...

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Classic Chinese and Japanese Love Poetry (Study Gu
Study Guide for Classic Chinese and Japanese Love Poetry Classical Chinese and Japanese poetry relates human emotions and sensations to images of nature. These images are prescribed by tradition, and have stereotypical associations which the reader is expected to know. In addition, complex...

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Renaissance Love Songs (Study Guide)
Renaissance Love Songs Study Guide Whereas the music of the Middle Ages is predominantly sacred, there is a great flourishing of songs dedicated to secular topics, predominatly love, in the 15th through the early 17th centuries. With the invention of music printing, the spread of literacy and...

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Study Guide for Medieval Love Songs
Study Guide for Medieval Love Songs Although modern Western ideas about romantic love owe a certain amount to the classical Greek and Roman past, they were filtered through the very different culture of the European Middle Ages. One can trace the concepts which dominated Western thinking...

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Christie, Agatha: The Man in the Brown Suit
B O O K R E P O R T B y F l o r i a n K a t z i n g e r AGATHA CHRISTIE The Man in the Brown Suit Perg, 3rd of April 1997 Originaldokument enthält an dieser Stelle eine Grafik!Original document contains a...

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Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich: The Communist Mani
Study Guide for The Communist Manifesto Click here for the Manifesto online. Page numbers referred to in these notes are those of the International Publishers edition. The Communist Manifesto, first published in 1848 for theCommunist League, had little influence in its own day. Only after...

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Hemingway, Ernest Miller: The old man and the sea
• The old man and the sea from Ernest Hemingway An old man fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, but he had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had always been with him. But after that the boy`s parents had told him to go with a nother...

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The Lais of Marie de France (Study Guide)
The Lais of Marie de France Study Guide (12th Century) Source: The Lays of Marie de France. London: Penguin. The introduction to this volume discusses mostly scholarly matters which will be of little interest to first-time readers, but pp. 23-34 provide much useful information. Beginning on...

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Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles (Study guide
Study guide for Ray Bradbury`s The Martian Chronicles (1950) Introduction (Wait until this page is completely downloaded before clicking.) Clearly Bradbury had a certain vision of the Mars in which these stories areset, a fantasy world based far more on Edgar Rice Burroughs...

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Fugard, Athol: "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys
Athol Fugard: "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys Source: Penguin Plays edition. New York: Penguin, 1984. During most of the last four decades, Athol Fugard has dedicated his art to fighting apartheid, remarkably keeping together an all-black theater troupe in extremely difficult conditions...

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Men in Black
Men in BlackMain characters: An old man, called K (Tommy Lee Jones), he is the partner of J. J is a black man, at first he is a cop and works by NYPD. One day he discovers a bug and so he comes to MIB. There, he loses his ID. Now he is Man in Black and he has to take care of the aliens in...

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Shakespear, William: A Midsummer night's Dream
Marcus Meisel,7C A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespear Author: "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" was written by William Shakespeare, who was born in Stratfort-upon-Avon,...

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Bolt, Robert: The Mission
The Mission by Robert Bolt Robert Bolt was born in 1924. He was teacher until his first novel Flowering Cherry, which was successfull came out. His greatest success was A man for all Seasons. In 1961 he began the work with David Lean on Lawrence of Arabia. Their films together included the...

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Emecheta, Buchi: The Joys of Motherhood
Buchi Emecheta: The Joys of Motherhood (1979) Buchi Emecheta emigrated from Nigeria to London with her young husband, only to find herself ultimately alone, raising children in a hostile and poverty-ridden climate. Through hard work and study she became an influential writer focusing on the...

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Shakespeare William: The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Facts The Merchant of Venice was written around 1596/97. It is a comedy in 5 acts, written in verse and prose. The first performance took place in London before 1600. It was first printed in 1600. Shakespeare used sources like e.g. "The jew...

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The experience of war pervades the literature of t
Lent term 1999 Verena Kischer 20th century literature Erasmus student Seminar tutor: Dr. Paul Hendon ‘The experience of war pervades the literature of the period, even if in unacknowledged...

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Rhue, Morton: The Wave
The Wave (by Morton Rhue) Laurie Saunders is sitting at her desk to write for The Gordon Grapevine. All the others are outside because it is a lovely day. They don’t stop talking to their friends although they all know that they have to finish their next issue. The bell rings soon, so...

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Gibson, William: Neuromancer (Study Guide)
Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984) Information about Gibson and his newest novel, Idoru. William Gibson`s Yardshow: his own pagesChapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 9, Chapter10, Chapter 11Chapter 12 Chapter 13,Chapter...

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Dostoyevsky, Fjodor Michajlowitsch: Notes from Und
Study Guide for Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground Notes from Underground is one of the most influential pieces of fiction in Western European history. It has attracted attention for many reasons. 1) It contains an all-out assault on Enlightenment rationalism and the idea of progress...

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Ovid: The Art ofLove (Study Guide)
Study Guide for Ovid: The Art ofLove Notes for the translation by Rolfe Humphries of selections from theAmores and the Ars Amatoria. Publius Ovidus Naso (Ovid):The Loves (25-16 BCE?) Read the introduction to this translation. Some of the references to modernculture have dated since 1957,...

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Steinbeck, John: The Pearl
Marcus Meisel,7C THE PEARL by John Steinbeck Author: "The Pearl" was written by JOHN STEINBECK, who was born in Salinas, California, in 1902. His first three books were financial failures, and he worked at various kinds of jobs to...

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