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Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and a very skillful entrepreneur and business man, born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. His father was Immanuel Nobel, an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. After a bankruptcy, Immanuel left his family in Stockholm...
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The legends tell us that Arthur was a wise and powerful king, who ruled from a giant and glorious castle and who commanded the loyalty of hundreds of men. First and foremost of these followers were the Knights of the Round Table. That the greatest knight in skill of arms, Lancelot,...
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Two world wars, an intervening economic depression of great severity, and the austerity of life in Britain following the second of these wars help to explain the quality and direction of English literature in the 20th century. The traditional values of Western civilization, which the...
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This copy of the first edition of the book was dedicated by the author to her mother. It was auctioned off at Christies in London in June 2006 for ?33, 000. Black Beauty (in full: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, first published November 24 1877) is Anna Sewells only novel,...
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the childrens magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or...
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France (French: IPA: [f??s]), officially the French Republic (French: Republique francaise, IPA: [?epyblik f??s?z]), is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various overseas islands and territories located in other continents. [12]...
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Great Expectations is a bildungsroman (a novel tracing the life of the protagonist) by Charles Dickens and first serialized in All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years...
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Heidi is a story focusing on events in the life of the title character, a young orphan, in Switzerland. It was written as a childrens book in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. Two sequels, Heidi Grows Up and Heidis Children, were not written by Spyri but by her English translator,...
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This does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved! ) Any material not supported by sources may be challenged and removed at any time. This article has been tagged since June 2006. A hobby-horse...
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Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819 and set in 12th century England, an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe is sometimes given credit for helping to increase popular interest in the middle ages in 19th century Europe and America (see Romanticism). Ivanhoe...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nations colonial history. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on...
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Oliver Twist (1838) is Charles Dickens second novel. The book was originally published in Bentleys Miscellany as a serial, in monthly installments that began appearing in the month of February 1837 and continued through April 1839. George Cruikshank provided one steel etching per month...
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In another play by Shakespeare a tragic hero described himself as More sinned against then sinning. In your opinion could this also be true of Othello? In the Course of your answer: - Explain clearly in what way Othello might seem to be a victim - Comment on what the play suggests about...
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Robin Hood is an outlaw of the medieval era in archetypal English folk tales, who may be based on a true story. Many accounts of Robin Hood, though not the very earliest, bear a striking similarity to accounts of the life of Fulk FitzWarin, a Norman noble who was disinherited and became...
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The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a network of networks that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government...