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Little Women is the enormously popular novel by Louise May Alcott.
b. 11-29-1832; Germantown, PA
d. 3-6-1888; Concord
Little Women was first published on September 30, 1868, selling more than 2,000 copies immediately.
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Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem set in the 5th century and based on oral traditions. The author is unknown and the only survivng manuscript (Nowell Codex) dates c. 1010.
Beowulf, a hero of the Geats (Geatland = modern southern Sweden), has three enemies: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall (Heorot) and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and an unnamed dragon. Beowulf is mortally wounded in the final battle.
• Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
• more Middle Ages posters
• Alliteration - Literary Techniques posters
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkowo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. Things Fall Apart is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within. (book flap)
• more Black History posters
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Isaac Asimov
b. 1-2-1920; Russia
d. 4-6-1992; NYC
Isaac Asimov is considered a master of the science fiction genre. Asimov set three rules for “his” robots - “1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”
• Asimov's Chronology of the World
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There's No Business
Charles Bukowski
b. 8-16-1920; Germany
d. 3-9-1994; Los Angeles, CA (leukemia)
Poet, novelist and short story writer Charles Bukowski, influenced by the social, cultural and economics times he lived in, as well as his personal alcholism and the drudgery of work, told the stories of ordinary poor Americans. He was called a “laureate of American lowlife” by TIME magazine.
• There's No Business
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Tarzan and the Ant Men
Edgar Rice Burroughs
b. 9-1-1875; Chicago, IL
d. 3-19-1950; Encino, CA
Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is one of the most recognizable character in literature. The first book, Tarzan and the Ape Men was originally published in a magazine in 1912, the book format was released in 1914. The name “Tarzan” in copyrighted.
• Tarzan and the Ant Men (book)
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Alice and Humpty Dumpty, Cover Illustration for “Alice Through the Looking-Glass”
Lewis Carroll
John Tenniel, illustrator
• Lewis Carroll posters
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
b. 9-19-1911; Cornwall, England
d. 6-19-1993; England (heart failure)
Novelist, poet and playwright William Golding, most remembered for his novel Lord of the Flies, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983 for “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today.”
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The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling are pourquoi (“why” in French) stories, also known as 'origin stories', which are fictional narratives explaining why somethings is the way it is - for instance “how the elephant got a long nose”. Folk tales, myths and legends could be considered pourquoi stories.
Rudyard Kipling was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The Kalevala, the national epic poem of Finland, was compiled from Finnish and Karelian folklore in the nineteenth century by Elias Lonnrot.
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