Main article: English literature The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, or literature composed in English by writers who are not necessarily from England. Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian: all have enriched English literature. But writers noted for expressing Englishness, or associated particularly with regions of England, include William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy (Wessex), A. E. Housman (Shropshire), Rupert Brooke, Jane Austen, Arnold Benne ...

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Culture of England, Culture of England - Art, Culture of England - Cuisine, Culture of England - Folklore, Culture of England - Heritage, Culture of England - Literature, Culture of England - Music, Culture of England - Religion, Culture of England - Sport and leisure

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Spanish Golden Age - Don Quixote. Regarded by many as one of the finest works in the Spanish language, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was one of the first novels published in Europe. The novel, like Spain itself, was caught between the Middle Ages and the modern world. A veteran of the Battle of Lepanto ((1571)), Cervantes had fallen on hard times in the late 1590s and was imprisoned for debt in 1597, when he began work on his best-remembered novel. The final installment was published in 1615, a ...

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Spanish Golden Age, Spanish Golden Age - Painting, Spanish Golden Age - El Greco, Spanish Golden Age - Diego Velázquez, Spanish Golden Age - Fransisco de Zurbarán, Spanish Golden Age - Other significant painters, Spanish Golden Age - Music, Spanish Golden Age - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish Golden Age - Alonso Lobo, Spanish Golden Age - Spanish guitar, Spanish Golden Age - Literature, Spanish Golden Age - Don Quixote, Spanish Golden Age - Lope de Vega and Spanish drama, Spanish Golden Age - Other significant authors

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Kamal's literary career took off after this first publication. Her first book of poems Sanjher Maya (Evening Beautiful) came out in 1938, bearing a foreword from Kazi Nazrul Islam and attracting praise from critics, not least of whom was the father figure of Bangla literature, Rabindranath. Sanjher Maya was translated in Russian in 1984. Slightly before this, in 1937, came her first collection of short stories, See also:

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The science fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term "cyberpunk" as a kind of literature. Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story "Cyberpunk", although the story was not actually published until November 1983, in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Volume 57, Number 4 [3]. The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of Br ...

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Many books refer to the Thames. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome describes a boat trip up the Thames, as does Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. Somewhere near the Oxford stretch is where the Liddells were rowing in the poem at the start of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The river is mentioned in both The Wind in the Willows and the play Toad of Toad Hall. The utopian News from Nowhere is mainly the account of a journey throu ...

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River Thames, River Thames - Name origin, River Thames - Course, River Thames - Catchment area and discharge, River Thames - History, River Thames - Literature, River Thames - Sport, River Thames - Navigation, River Thames - Crossings, River Thames - Islands, River Thames - Religion, River Thames - Notes

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Lucifer is a key protagonist in John Milton's Protestant epic, Paradise Lost. Milton presents Lucifer almost sympathetically, an ambitious and prideful angel who defies God and wages war on heaven, only to be defeated and cast down. Lucifer must then employ his rhetorical ability to organize hell; he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub. Later, Lucifer enters the Garden of Eden, where he successfully tempts Eve, wife of Adam, to eat fruit from the Tree of knowledge of good and evil. Lucifer naturally ...

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Albert Pike - Biography. Walter Lee Brown: A Life of Albert Pike. University of Arkansas Press, September 1, 1997. ISBN 1557284695 Fred W. Allsopp: Albert Pike a Biography. Kessinger Publishing, March 1, 1997. ISBN 1564591344 ...

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Albert Pike, Albert Pike - Biography, Albert Pike - Military career, Albert Pike - After the war, Albert Pike - In Freemasonry, Albert Pike - Albert Pike and the Ku Klux Klan, Albert Pike - Conspiracy theories, Albert Pike - Literature, Albert Pike - Biography, Albert Pike - Ancestry & Family

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New England has always received a great deal of attention from American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, John Updike, John Irving and Arthur Miller. Largely on the strength of local writers like Thoreau, Boston, Massachusetts was for some years the center of the U.S. publishing industry, before being overtaken by New York in the middle of the nineteenth century. Boston remains the home of publishers Houghton Mifflin and Pearson Education, among others, as well as t ...

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New England, New England - History, New England - The indigenous peoples of New England, New England - Early European settlement 1610s-1630s, New England - The New England Confederation 1630s-1650s, New England - The Dominion of New England 1686-1689, New England - Modern New England 1689-present, New England - Politics, New England - Town meetings in New England, New England - New England and political thought, New England - Contemporary New England politics, New England - Education, New England - Higher education, New England - Culture and education, New England - Population, New England - Regional population layout, New England - Southern New England, New England - Coastal New England, New England - Urban New England, New England - Regional nomenclature, New England - Culture, New England - Historico-cultural roots, New England - New England's unique culture, New England - Social life in New England, New England - The continuing European influence, New England - Economy, New England - Literature, New England - Notable New Englanders, New England - Major Professional Sports Teams

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One of the earliest literary monuments influenced by Torlakian dialects is Manuscript from Temska from 1762 in which its author Kiril Zhivkovich from Pirot considered its language like Simple Bulgarian. Serbian writer Bora Stanković used a lot of Torlakian dialect in his novels, which describe the life of people in Southern Serbia in early 20th century. Comedian writer Stevan Sremac, although born in Vojvodina, spent a portion of his life in southern Serbia, and his novels Zona Zamfirova and Ivkova slava depic ...

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Torlakian dialect, Torlakian dialect - Classification, Torlakian dialect - Notes on speech, Torlakian dialect - Features, Torlakian dialect - Cases lacking inflections, Torlakian dialect - Lack of phoneme h, Torlakian dialect - Syllabic l, Torlakian dialect - Modern Injustice, Torlakian dialect - Assimilation of Torlaks, Torlakian dialect - Literature

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Main article: Hindi literature The beginnings of Hindi literature can be traced to the Prakrits of classical Sanskrit plays. Tulasidas's Ramacharitamanas attained wide popularity. Modern litterateurs include Jaishankar Prasad, Sumitranandan Pant, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Varma, Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayana 'Ajneya' and Munshi Premchand. ...

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Hindi, Hindi - Area, Hindi - Number of Speakers, Hindi - History, Hindi - Standard Hindi, Hindi - Vocabulary, Hindi - Dialects, Hindi - Sounds, Hindi - Vowels, Hindi - Consonants, Hindi - Borrowed sounds, Hindi - Writing system, Hindi - Grammar, Hindi - Word order, Hindi - Common tenses and aspect, Hindi - Case, Hindi - Literature, Hindi - Common difficulties faced in learning Hindi

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Culture of Sudan - Writers. Main article: List of African writers (by country) AbdAllah al Tayeb Tayeb Salih Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub Babikir Badri Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim Mansour Khaled Abel Alier Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt Leila Aboulela Jamal Mahjoub Ahmad Baba al Massufi (1556-1627) Murwan Al-Rashe ...

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Culture of Sudan, Culture of Sudan - Ethnicity, Culture of Sudan - Religion, Culture of Sudan - Islam, Culture of Sudan - Christianity, Culture of Sudan - Indigenous Religions, Culture of Sudan - Literature, Culture of Sudan - Writers, Culture of Sudan - Music, Culture of Sudan - Modern tribal music, Culture of Sudan - Sport, Culture of Sudan - Clothing, Culture of Sudan - Education

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The South has a strong literary history. Characteristics of southern literature including a focus on a common southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one's role within it, the community's dominating religion and the burden religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, and the use of southern dialect. Perhaps the most famous southern writer is William Faulkner, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Faulkner brought new techniques su ...

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Culture of the Southern United States, Culture of the Southern United States - People, Culture of the Southern United States - Religion, Culture of the Southern United States - Southern Dialect, Culture of the Southern United States - Cuisine, Culture of the Southern United States - Literature, Culture of the Southern United States - Music, Culture of the Southern United States - Sports, Culture of the Southern United States - Film, Culture of the Southern United States - Cultural Variations

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As in film, naturalism is the general style, although the flexibility and amorphous quality of prose, as opposed to the concrete visual imagery of film, has allowed for a great number of other forms. In this context, naturalism is an outgrowth of Realism, a prominent literary movement in late 19th-century France and elsewhere. Naturalistic writers were influenced by the evolution theory of Charles Darwin. They believed that one's heredity and surroundings decide one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as they ...

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Naturalism literature, Naturalism literature - Theater, Naturalism literature - Film, Naturalism literature - Literature

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Listed in the chronological order of the events in the books. Drizzt Do'Urden - The Dark Elf Trilogy. Main article: The Dark Elf Trilogy Overview The trilogy was a prequel to the very successful Icewind Dale Trilogy. Oddly enough, Drizzt Do'Urden was originally written as supporting character in the Icewind Dale Series. However the author soon realized how powerful the character was, and he soon became the main character. Works included ...

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Nesbit's literary output was tremendous. Writing by herself, she published about 40 books for children: either novels or collections of stories. Collaborating with others, she published almost as many more, as well as a great deal of "hack" journalism that remains largely uncollected. Nesbit's books for children are known for being entertaining without turning didactic, although some of her earlier works, notably Five Children and It, veer in that direction. Some of them clearly display her socialist politics, notably "Harding's Luck" and "The House of Arden", which use time travel to make points about historical p ...

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E. Nesbit, E. Nesbit - Biography, E. Nesbit - Literature, E. Nesbit - Selected Works

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Wolfsangel - Fiction. In 1910, Hermann Löns published a classic fictional book entitled Der Wehrwolf (later published as Harm Wulf, a peasant chronicle and The Warwolf in English) set in a 17th Century German farming community during the Thirty Years' War. The main character of the book, Harm Wolf, adopts the wolfsangel as a badge against the occupying forces of the ruling princes. Some printings of this book, such as the 1940 edition, showcase a v ...

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Wolfsangel, Wolfsangel - Third Reich Use, Wolfsangel - Neo-Nazi Use, Wolfsangel - Heraldry And Mason's Marks, Wolfsangel - Wolf Trap, Wolfsangel - Literature, Wolfsangel - Fiction, Wolfsangel - Alleged Runic Origins

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The noble savage as protagonist or, more often, as companion to the protagonist has long been a popular type of literary character. Perhaps the most notable early example is the character Friday from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Other examples inclide Dirk Peters from Edgar Allen Poe's A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Chingachgook from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Queequeg from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, and Umslpoagaas from H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. Tonto from the Lone Ranger radio and television programs is one of the ...

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Homer - Commentaries. Scholia Veneta on the Iliad , ed. Villoison (Venice, 1788); Scholia in Homeri Iliades ed. Bekker (Berlin, 1825-1826). The Scholia on the Odyssey, ed. Buttmann (Berlin, 1821), Dindorf (Oxford, 1855) Commentary of Eustathius, first printed at Rome in 1542; Heynes, Iliad (Leipzig, 1802) Nitzsch, Odyssey (books i.-xii., Hanover) Negelbach Anmerkungen zur Ilias ( ...

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Homer, Homer - The Homeric Question, Homer - Ancient Accounts of Homer, Homer - Homeric studies, Homer - Ancient philology, Homer - 18th century, Homer - 19th century, Homer - Homeric dialect, Homer - Homeric style, Homer - Historicity of the Iliad, Homer - Literature, Homer - Commentaries, Homer - Homeric Question, Homer - Homeric dialect, Homer - Editions, Homer - English Translations

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Infinite Jest - Surveys. Marshall Boswell, Understanding David Foster Wallace. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1570035172 Iannis Goerlandt and Luc Herman, "David Foster Wallace." Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2. Infinite Jest - In-depth studies. Tom LeClair, "The Prodigious Fiction of Richard Powers, William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace." Cr ...

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Infinite Jest, Infinite Jest - Characters, Infinite Jest - The Incandenza family, Infinite Jest - The Enfield Tennis Academy, Infinite Jest - The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House, Infinite Jest - Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents, Infinite Jest - Subsidized time, Infinite Jest - More on the setting of the story, Infinite Jest - Literature, Infinite Jest - Surveys, Infinite Jest - In-depth studies, Infinite Jest - Interviews, Infinite Jest - Web resources

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Sumerian texts were mass produced in the Ur III period; however, the word 'revival' to describe this period is misleading because archaeological evidence does not offer evidence of a previous period of decline. Instead, Sumerian began to take on a different form. As the Semitic Akkadian language became the common spoken language, Sumerian continued to dominate literature and also administrative documents. Government officials learned to write at s ...

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Third Dynasty of Ur, Third Dynasty of Ur - History, Third Dynasty of Ur - The Earliest Law-Code, Third Dynasty of Ur - Culture, Third Dynasty of Ur - Industry/Commerce, Third Dynasty of Ur - Political Organization, Third Dynasty of Ur - Social System, Third Dynasty of Ur - Literature

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At the conclusion of his literary labours, as the only Roman who had ever taken for his theme the whole realm of nature, he prays for the blessing of the universal mother on his completed work. In literature he assigns the highest place to Homer and to Cicero (xvii.37 seq.); and the next to Virgil. He was influenced by the works of the Numidian king Juba II, who he called "my Master". He takes a keen interest in nature, and in the natural sciences, studying them in a way that was then new in Rome, while the small esteem in which studies of this kind were held does not deter him from endeavouring to be ...

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Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Elder - Chronology, Pliny the Elder - Vesuvius, Pliny the Elder - Literature, Pliny the Elder - Research after 1500

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The noble savage as protaganist or, more often, as companion to the protaganist has long been a popular type of literary character. Perhaps the most notable early example is the character Friday from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Other examples inclide Dirk Peters from Edgar Allen Poe's A Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Chingachgook from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Queequeg from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and Umslpoagaas from H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. Tonto from the Lone Ranger radio and television programs is one of the ...

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Noble savage, Noble savage - Modern denial, Noble savage - Origins, Noble savage - Literature

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