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"Candide, or Optimism, translated from the German of Dr. Ralph."[3][4] Author Voltaire Original title Candide, ou l'Optimisme Illustrator Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune Country France Language French Genre(s) Conte philosophique; satire; picaresque novel; bildungsroman Publisher 1759: Cramer, Marc-Michel Rey, Jean Nourse, Lambert, and others Publication date January 1759[1][2] Media type Print ISBN NA Candide, ou l'Optimisme (pronounced /ˌkænˈdiːd/ in English and [kɑ̃did] in French) is a French

The Da Vinci Code adalah sebuah novel karangan Dan Brown seorang penulis Amerika dan diterbitkan pada 2003 oleh Doubleday Fiction (ISBN 0-385-50420-9). Buku ini adalah salah satu buku terlaris di dunia dengan 36 juta eksemplar (hingga Agustus 2005) dan telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 44 bahasa, termasuk Indonesia. Di Indonesia diterbitkan oleh penerbit Serambi Ilmu Semesta (ISBN 979335807) pada tahun 2004. Menggabungkan gaya detektif, thriller dan teori konspirasi, novel ini telah membantu mempopulerkan

upon is the last chapter from the novel A Lesson Before Dying written by Ernest J. Gaines, and African-American writer. This author was born on a plantation in Louisiana at the beginning of the thirties. Louisiana has been a source of inspiration for his novel since he only writes about the life of black people in the south of the USA. This book won several prizes among which France’s highest literary honour: The Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters. This novel is set in Louisiana at the end of the

discussed. First, the coverage of this book was confined to authors who were at least born and raised in South Asia, excluding writers of South Asian descent born in Great Britain like Hanif Kureishi (responsible for several outstanding film scripts and novels) and Hari Kunzru (author of the wildly entertaining historical satire The Impressionist). All the books discussed in detail 4 Modern South Asian Literature in English are set at least partly in South Asia, excluding works depicting only

Camus published the main works associated with his doctrine of the absurd--his view that human life is rendered ultimately meaningless by the fact of death and that the individual cannot make rational sense of his experience. These works include the novel The Stranger (1942; Eng. trans., 1946), perhaps his finest work of fiction, which memorably embodies the 20th-century theme of the alienated stranger or outsider; a long essay on the absurd, The Myth of Sysiphysus (1942; Eng. trans., 1955); and two

In London at the Congress Centre in central London. A first book in 20 years following 22 years of exile due to his highly political work (including the bestselling novel Petals of Blood). Ngugi wa Thiong'o (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal, Mutiiri. Ngugi went into

The Great Gatsby, F.S. Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald, first published on April 10, 1925. F.S. Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) is one of the most famous American authors of what is called “The Lost Generation” of the Twenties. – Notably with E. Hemingway & G. Stein -, authors who lived in Paris after the First World War. This term has latterly been used as shorthand to designate groups of young people

listener listened intently enough to join the improviser's trance. That was understood as the listener's job, the listener's act of creation. This made possible a depth of thought.... The indefinite personality of the narrator in Toni Morrison's novel, Jazz, invokes two of the author's central concerns in the creation of African American literature. On the one hand, through both the indeterminacy and the self-questioning of the narrative I," she compels her readers, whatever their ethnic background

de Dracula 2.1)Style Gothique 2.2)Un roman touche à tout 2.3)Adaptation cinématographique et vague vampirique moderne (séries, films…) Abraham Stoker mostly known as Bram Stoker, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1847. In 1897, he published the novel which makes him famous Dracula . Vampire’s Theme 1.1) Count Dracula is an invention of Stoker, inspired from The Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes or Vlad The Impaler. He was a brilliant and notoriously savage general who impaled his enemies

given her hope that her romantic dreams might now be realized. As you recall, Charles, or more particularly marriage, has proven to be a total disappointment. Neither have transported her to the level of ecstasy which her early readings in romance novels had promised. She attends the ball with high expectations. At this point in the narrative Emma, having arrived a few moments earlier is walking about in the Vaubysard mansion. She enters a room where some men are gathered. She "sees" the bored