One example is Jane Austen's traditional classic, Pride and Prejudice. ... In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through his novel, Notes From the Underground. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The entire novel can be thoroughly enjoyed without any understanding of Goldman's satirical motives, and because the storyline falls within the margins of the romantic tradition, it can truly be appreciated as a "classic tale of true love and high adventure."" ... The author even ends "William Goldman's- story on a somewhat happy note with the change for the better in his relationship with his son. ...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, like Trainspotting and Bridget Jones", is another potential cult classic. ... In a personal note to this writer, she adds that the theory "also looks at male stereotypes but always paralleled with the female stereotype." ... She was the classic Feminine Female complementing the classic Masculine Male. ...

• Word Count: 2791
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The play ends on a peaceful note and they live happily ever after. ... Bottom of Form 0 Algy In Oscar Wilde's classic play, "The Importance of Being Earnest", the reader is introduced to an importantly funny man by the name of Algernon. ...

• Word Count: 1981
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, considered by many a classic example of a novel about the Oedipus complex; Lawrence himself claimed not to have read Freud2, and dismissed the theory of complexes as "vicious half-statements of the Freudians"3, but his wife Frieda was greatly interested in psychoanalysis and claimed that they discussed Freud's theories together. " Sons and Lovers should have appeared just as Freud's theories were beginning to become widely known in the English-speaking world. ... Note that he cannot get along with Miriam, because mommy does not approve, and that Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 4216
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School