"Brave New World" written by the English author Aldous Huxley, born in 1894, is the portrait of an "ideal" world far in the future where society is made up of castes and babies originate from test-tubes, rather than from the womb of their mothers. ... Huxley, however, knew how to criticise his contemporary world, the world of 1932, and what he thought might follow, in his novel BNW. The British author wisely used the future in order to attack the present and to foresee negative future aspects deriving from the present. ...

• Word Count: 501
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

He profusely quotes from ancient authors like Theocrats, Virgil, or Horace in support of his ideas and arguments. ... Aeschylus is his favorite author, whose tragedies he has transcribed a copy of with his own hand, which he carries around for more than thirty years. ... The devious ways of contemporary mankind are quite beyond his conception. ...

• Word Count: 630
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• Grade Level: High School

There are three examples of text on this cover, the authors name, the title and a phrase "Not all journeys have an ending", which may suggest the overall theme of the novel. The author's name and the title "The Ivory Trail" are in the middle ground, off centre and at diagonals to each other. ... The fact that the title of novel comes second to, or underneath the author's name suggests perhaps the author's narcissism, feeling he is better than the book. ... The book cover appears to be set in a modern era but the pictures of the sphinx and pyramid imply that perhaps although cont...

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To remedy this oversight, the young author began to write about teens in a setting she felt would be familiar to her contemporaries. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... What is really amazing about the book is that the author started writing if for a high school writing assignment and her teacher pushed her to write more. ... I got the feeling that it was a very personal novel for Hinton and at the end of the book it was almost like I had gotten to know the author. ... Contemporary Literary Criticism. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It would be difficult to try and clarify the meaning of this book - the author's meaning - but the superficial nature of its story certainly puts it in a category of post-modernist writing. ... The gray area then becomes how to differentiate classical writing that contains elements of self-reflexivity from post-modernist contemporary writing which aims to respond to social agenda. ... The color, the pattern, and the soul of his piece comes from "a self-reflexivity prompted by the author's awareness of the theory underlying the construction of fictional works" (Waugh 2). ... The ch...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Chapter 15 of Voltaire's 'Candide' can be taken as a perfect example of the author's skill as an 18th Century Enlightenment writer. ... Voltaire is an author who handles character dialogue expertly. ... From the examples in this essay, it can be seen how Voltaire, utilizes methods from centuries before him to effectively communicate his point to his contemporary readers and does so in a way that is amusing and captivating....

• Word Count: 1041
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is in sharp contrast to most contemporary novels which stuck to a Spartan diet of unreality and dullness, their only charm lying in the complete strangeness to anything human. ... Although we do not think too highly of the literary experience of the average 18th century reader, even he would remain sceptical after taking the author at his word. ...

• Word Count: 994
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• Grade Level: High School

The authors of the Romantic era had an idea of themselves as creators. ... In Thérese Raquin, Zola described the lives of contemporary working people. ... Since Thérese Raquin was meant for the common reader, it was set in contemporary time in the city. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Although coinciding with contemporary modernist writing, Woolf's Orlando has been described as almost specifically written as a screenplay. ... In her paper, Sharon Oudit further embellishes on the idea that Woolf's novel is in fact riddled with cinematic allusion thereby implicating that the author intended the novel for filmic adaptation and mocked her readers. ...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolo...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolo...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate