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Guy de Maupassant is one of the most popular writers of the second half of the 19th century. He is the author of six novels, 260 short stories, essays, articles, poems and plays. In 1880 with the publication of “Boule de Suif” Maupassant appeared...

An Artist of the Floating World is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 1986. Ishiguro is a prolific and well-known novelist, famous for his books The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. He has won the Man Booker Prize and...

Cereus Blooms at Night was written by Trinidadian filmmaker/artist/writer Shani Mootoo. The book tells the story of an older lady named Mala Ramchandin through the eyes -- and mouth -- of a lively and energetic nurse named Tyler. Set in the...

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum was adapted for the big screen in 1975 from the German language novel of the same name by Heinrich Boll, one of Germany's foremost post-War writers, and the recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Grain is a collection of poem written by John Glenday and published in 2009. Glenday's poetry style is quite lyrical, and he infuses many emotions into his writing. Some of the most interesting poems within Grain include a rendering of the popular...

First published in 1990, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment explores the intersectionality of race, gender, and class within the framework of black feminist theory. Written by sociologist and scholar...

“The Case for Reparations” is an essay written about the history and possibility of reparations for slavery in the United States, particularly through the lens of the housing crisis, with Chicago used as a specific example for how the histories of...

Pleasantville is director and writer Gary Ross' 1998 film that follows two teenagers from the 1990s as they embark on a supernatural journey into the world of a black-and-white sitcom from the 1950s called Pleasantville. It looks at the...

Based on Jordan Belfort's book of the same name, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) tells the story of Belfort's (as portrayed by Leonardo Dicaprio) career as a stockbroker and his time at his own firm, Stratton Oakmont, where he and...

When Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Kathy Bates first appeared in a movie together the result was box office gold, lavishly sprinkled by the moviegoing public and critics alike; what a good idea, then, to bring the trio back together for a...

The Village by the Sea is a novel written by Anita Desai and published in 1982. The novel focuses on a small family in India who lives in a village near the sea. The family is in a difficult situation because the mother is extremely sick and the...

Most people are familiar with the film version of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa; fewer are familiar with the play, and some did not realize that the big screen classic was ever a play at all. Yet this is probably the most famous of Friel's...

Warm Bodies is romance novel with post-apocalyptic and zombie themes, written by Isaac Mario. The book was released on October 14, 2010 by Atria Books. This was Marion’s most notable work, having received critical acclaim from The Guardian and...

Play is one of the many experimental one-act dramatic presentations written by Samuel Beckett in a career devoted to questioning the conventions and properties of stage drama. Utilizing such standard traditional literary terminology, it is the...

The Passion of Saint Perpetua, Saint Felicitas and Their Companions is one of the oldest and also one of the most important of the texts written by early Christian martyrs. At the time, speaking out in praise of Jesus, and refusing to denounce...

Things: A Story of the Sixties, is the debut novel of the French author Georges Perec. The novel was first published in 1965 in France, under the title "Les Choses", which, in French, means "Things". Quickly after publication, the novel gained...

First published in 1992, Poor Things is a novel by the Scottish author and artist Alasdair Gray. The novel is set in the Victorian era, and takes into account some of Gray's views on inequality and relationships. The main character of the novel is...

Are people mad because of society's influence upon them, or is their insanity something that occurs from within, independent of the world and what is happening in it? This is the central question that German psychologist, philosopher and Marxist...

Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a novel by British author Kate Atkinson, this being her first novel publication. Published by Doubleday on 2 March 1995, the book itself stands at 381 pages. It follows the story of a girl named Ruby Lennox who...

We think of autumn as a time of relaxation and celebration: the year winds down, the air grows cooler, and summer's greenery fades to a vibrant display of rust and gold. We speak of the season's beauty, and often mourn its passing. But we may not...

Troilus and Criseyde is a romance story set in Ancient Greece and written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1382-1386. It is broken up into 5 books which chart the rise and fall of the characters' love affair. Troilus and Criseyde begins during the...

There There is Tommie Orange’s debut novel, published in 2018 and hailed as a stunning contribution to a new generation of contemporary indigenous writing in North America. This new wave of writers is marked by their experiments with form and a...

Peter Pan is playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie's most famous work, published both as a play in 1904 and in 1911 as a novel. It tells the story of the magical Peter Pan, who flies into the Darling family's nursery in London one night and...

The Grand Highway, originally titled Le grand chemin is a French movie directed by Jean-Loup Hubert, produced by Pascal Hommais and Jean Francois Lepetit and starring Richard Bohringer and Anémone. It was initially released in France in 1987,...