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Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854  30 November 1900) was an Irish ... He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, ... He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for .... Despite being given to neither early rising nor manual labour, Wilde...
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Horatio Alger - Wikipedia  Horatio Alger Jr was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from ... By the time he died in 1899, Alger had published around a hundred volumes. ..... All of Alger's novels have similar plots: a boy struggles to escape poverty through hard...
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from ...  Jul 26, 2016 ... Marc Lamont Hill has written the book we desperately needed. No mere chronicle of recent anti-Black violence, Nobody digs deeper, revealing how ... He wrote no books, starred in no movies, occupied no endowed chair at a major ..... Yamasaki himself preferred low-density, low-rise residential planning.
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The Despair of Poor White Americans - The Atlantic  Never mind that this overbroad category of Americansthe exit pollsters' definition ... white Republican voters who, as he saw it, were most responsible for the rise of Trump: ... As for liberals' diagnosis that a major public-health crisis is rooted in racial envy, ... The exportable poor, he wrote, were the offals of our people.
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AP Literature Book List (Luciani) - Marshall Public Schools  One of the bleakest political novels ever written, "1984" illustrates Orwell's ... Victorian children's literature, a fairy tale, a dream, and a child's chronicle of growing up. ... in sacred poverty in Newark, having killed three more people for the cause. ..... The boy's death turns his heart to stone, and he treats his daughter Florence...
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The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the ...  Feb 21, 2005 ... He has been working on a new biography of Malcolm X for more then ten years. ... to symbolize black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, ... to talk about The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the missing chapters, and ... AMY GOODMAN: Then the writing of the autobiography, Alex Haley and...
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Black Boy - Wikipedia  Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by Richard Wright, detailing his youth and his eventual move to ... Black Boy (American Hunger) is a memoir of Richard Wright's childhood and young adulthood. ... were first published together only posthumously, by Harper and Row in 1977, as American ... Jump up ^ "Island Trees Sch. Dist. v.
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SparkNotes: Native Son: Plot Overview  Bigger Thomas, a poor, uneducated, twenty-year-old black man in 1930s Chicago, wakes up one morning in his family's cramped apartment on the South Side...
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Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown  Reviews ...  Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) is an autobiographical novel written by Claude .... in the 1940s and 50s (the narrator is, like the author, named Claude Brown). .... I couldn't connect to that protagonist yet, somehow, his story and the pivotal ..... Claude Brown's book about growing up as a young negro in Harlem in the...
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Literature / No Name Given - TV Tropes  The 1995 novel Blindness, by Jos Saramago, does not reveal the names of any .... His real name is never mentioned, although he is often referred to by his various ... None of the Pirates in Gideon Defoe's Pirates! in an Adventure with? books is .... The narrator is never named, and her three companions are only known by...
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Free frank mccourt Essays and Papers  It charts the author's childhood from his infant years in Brooklyn, through his impoverished ... First published in 1996, McCourt's memoir won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in the ... [tags: Angela's Ashes Memoirs Frank McCourt Essays], 4634 words ... Growing up in abject poverty, these individuals found ways to push past the glass...
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Random House for High School Teachers | Catalog | Grant and ...  His mother never kissed or hugged him (Well, Ulysses, you've become quite ... If Jesse and Hannah were unaffectionate, they still placed great hope in their oldest son. ... Jesse had not thought of sending his son to West Point until his wife had .... with the academy's mathematics course (the primary reason he graduated so...
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This author of - Quizlet  AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS---The author of the 1st entirely self-written .... BRITISH AUTHORS---He originally wrote "The Hobbit" to entertain his kids ..... born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, but soon moved with his parents to Oxford, ...... a youngster this "Billy Budd" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany.
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Black Boy/American Hunger Analysis - eNotes.com  Dive deep into Richard Wright's Black Boy/American Hunger with extended analysis, ... Originally intended as a much longer work, the autobiography focuses ... a sketch he had written about himself in 1937 called The Ethics of Living Jim Crow. Eventually included in Uncle Tom's Children (1938), his first collection of short...
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Audible Audio Edition): Judy ...  Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible narration with .... Peter Warren Hatcher has many problems, but his biggest one is his little brother, whom ... Peter Hatcher is a 9-years-old fourth grader who has a younger brother ... "Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume, on the other side, is a very...
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Neverland - Wikipedia  First appearance, Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (1904). Neverland is a fictional location featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. ... It was first introduced as "the Never Never Land" in the theatre play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, first...
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Native Son - Wikipedia  Native Son (1940) is a novel written by African-American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African-American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's ... Bigger Thomas wakes up in a dark, small room at the sound of the alarm clock. He lives in one room with his...
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Michael Ende's Fantastica and Rudolf Steiner's Moral Imagination  in ende's The Neverending Story, a boy named Bastian travels into the fantasy world of Fantastica which is being eaten up by ... that in fact ende's book should not be read at all. ... lesson he can apply in the real world after his return. Not only must free .... The Neverending Story Bastian himself enters the fantasy world he is...
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Native Son - Wikipedia  Native Son (1940) is a novel written by African-American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African-American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. ... "In the end", writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts.
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Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley  Reviews, Discussion ...  It is more broadly a "novel of ideas" with a novelist of ideas, Philip Quarles, at its center ... Huxley is one of those important writers that are rarely read, outside of his ..... most of the affluent characters were rather self indulgent I am still shaking my .... and its author in The Documents in the Case , in the person of John Munting,...
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Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoyevsky  Reviews ...  This was to have been Dostoevsky's first novel, which he started in 1846 when he was in his mid-twenties. But it was never completed because in 1849 he was...