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The Essence of Christianity is a philosophical book written by German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, published in 1841. Feuerbach is a key religious thinker historically, and he is known for the ideas and arguments proposed in this text.

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God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone is an articulation of Black divinity of deliverance. Cone was a champion of black liberation theology. The book was published in 1975 and it followed his two publications, “Black Power and Black Liberation”...

Labyrinth is a musical fantasy film directed and produced by Jim Henson and George Lucas, and was distributed by Tri-Star Pictures in 1986. The film stars actress Jennifer Connelly in the role of Sarah and David Bowie as the Goblin King, Jareth.

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Banjo by Claude McKay is based on personal experience. The setting takes place in Marseille, France. McKay published the book in 1929. The book revolves around hopeless and impoverished boys spending time wandering on beaches and docks of...

Christ in Concrete by Pietro di Donato is based on a true story. Di Donato’s father died on a construction site on Good Friday. The death inspired Di Donato to write a book about the struggles experienced by bricklayers, particularly Italian...

Crisis in the Red Zone is a non-fiction book about the Ebola outbreak, which began in 2013. Written by American author Richard Preston, the book details the devastating and deadly impact the virus had, and the attempts that were made to discover a...

Schmoedipus is an anthology series by English television dramatist, Dennis Potter and was released on 1975 by BBC (United Kingdom).

The story follows the reunion of a mother, Elizabeth Carter, and her son, Glen, who she had given away at birth....

The Dressmaker is the first published novel by Rosalie Ham. Ham uses the novel to question whether remote societies play any role in the contemporary world. The novel is written in a gothic style and is set in a local town in Australia. This book...

Elizabeth George Speare's The Bronze Bow was originally published in 1961 by Houghton Mifflin. Set in Israel, the novel follows a young man named Daniel bar Jamin, who is alive at the same time that Jesus of Nazareth is. After his father is killed...

The History of Love is a novel written by American writer Nicole Krauss, and was first published by W.W. Norton & Company on May 2, 2005.

The novel revolves around the romantic life and loss of Leopold (Leo) Gursky over the course of sixty...

1Q84 is an alternate history fiction written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with the first two volumes published on May 29, 2009, by Shinchosha. The third volume was later published on April 16, 2010. The English-language versions of the...

Written by English author J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic tales and legends of the fictional universe Eä. It was posthumously edited and published in 1977 by his son, Christopher Tolkien, with aid from fiction...

The Book of Job in the Bible addresses the sufferings and eventual contentment of a man named Job. The story’s structure is set in form of a prose prologue and prose epilogue. The story revolves around Job, a blessed and wealthy man. Satan is not...

Daniel Handler is an American writer who goes under the pen name Lemony Snicket. “A Series of Unfortunate Events” is a series of several children-novels following the three siblings who became orphaned and have to struggle to survive in a world...

Psalm 23: Background Analysis

Although there is disagreement over the precise origin of Psalm 23, it is typically credited to King David of Israel and Judah, who is believed to have lived circa 1000 BCE. David, who was raised as a shepherd, is...

Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley was first published in 1904 and has been reprinted several times since then. It encompasses Bradley’s lectures on Shakespearean criticism as a professor at Oxford University from 1901 up to the time of...

Artemis is a science fiction novel written by Andrew Weir and was first published on November 14, 2017, by Crown Publishing. The audiobook is narrated by Rosario Dawson. The novel was extremely well-received by the public and won the 2017 best...

William Butler Yeats's "An Irish American Forsees His Death" was first written in 1918 and published in 1919 as a part of Yeats' poetry collection, The Wild Swans at Coole. Told from the perspective of the eponymous Irish airman, the poem is his...

Although English poet Wilfred Owen wrote this poem in 1918, it was not published until 1920, almost two full years after his death. Like most of his poems, it deals with the trauma that soldiers continue to deal with after they have left the...

"Mother" is Vietnamese-Australian author Vuong Pham's poem about his mother. Published in 2013 as a part of his mini-collection Refugee Prayer, "Mother" examines the relationship between Vuong and his mother. Together, the two immigrated to...

Thomas Hardy is one of the most influential figures of English literature. Both a novelist and a poet, he created work that is highly concerned with the Victorian era criticism and deals with themes of social and psychological struggle.

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Thomas Hardy is a Victorian-era English author best known for novels like Far From the Madding Crowd and Tess of d'Urbervilles. However, Hardy was also a prolific poet. His poems, including "The Man He Killed," written and published in 1902, were...

Although Victorian-era English author Thomas Hardy was best known for novels like Far From the Madding Crowd, he wrote countless poems which are well-respected and still read throughout the world to this day.

Among his most famous poems is "The...

Ted Hughes was an English poet who was known for his themes of nature and animals in his poetry. He was born in 1930 in Yorkshire, England, and served in the Royal Air Force before studying English literature at Cambridge University. He was...