The novel, never meant to be realistic in any strict sense, is of course filled out with an excess of other customs and motifs. ... Features of the idealistic novel with its exceedingly emotional view of experience abound. ... He wrote the novel as historically based as he could but still making it a fictional work. I think the novel is popular as well as scholarly. ... Part IV: Ideas, Concepts, or Summary Propositions I feel that the following four events were very crucial to the conclusion of The Last of the Mohicans: the war between the French and English; the attack of the Huro...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I found the book on the corner of a shelf and realized that the cover of the book was pretty interesting, as it appears "the novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze". ... Summary: In this story, the author Ray Bradbury tells us about futuristic American city in which books are illegal to read or posses, and firemen aren't employed to save houses, but to burn books. ... Theme: In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the theme is Censorship as shown by Captain Beatty's speech toward the end of "The Hearth and the Salamander" while explaining the history of firemen to Montag in his hom...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Brave New World The author of this great book Brave New World is Aldous Huxley. He was born in Surrey England in 1894. I believe that Aldous Huxley was one of the greatest authors of this generation. In 1959 Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the novel from the American Academy of Art...

• Word Count: 1219
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After leaving the Indian Civil Service he moved back to England and began to pull together his various journals and writings in order to prepare his first novels. ... This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a moderate part of all of the notes, journals and other things that he had collected and intended to use. ... Down and Out in Paris and London, is not a novel; it is a kind of documentary account of life unknown to most of its readers. ...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School