Author: Alan PatonPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582530096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Cry, the Beloved Country
Author: Alan PatonPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582530096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The Stranger
Author: Albert CamusPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307827666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
CliffsNotes on Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country
Author: Richard O PetersonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544180933
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Cry, the Beloved Country takes you into a compassionately told story set in the troubled and changing South Africa in the 1940s. Focusing on a people who are caught between two worlds -- the old with its rituals and and respect and the new with its lack of values and order -- this study guide explores a novel of social protest through character analyses and critical essays. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Profile of the author Alan Paton's life and work Historical background of the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s Character web and in-depth analyses of the major roles Summaries and commentaries for each chapter within the book Review questions and suggestions for theme topics Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1649741847
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
Author: Ambelin KwaymullinaPublisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763669881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Taking refuge among other teens who are in hiding from a government threatened by their supernatural powers, Ashala covertly practices her abilities only to be captured and interrogated for information about the location of her friends.
CliffsNotes on Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country
Author: Richard O. PetersonWaiting for the Barbarians
Author: J. M. CoetzeePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524705470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state. J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies), Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald are teaming up to to bring J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen.
Two Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
CliffsNotes on Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country
Author: Alan PatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Author: Patrick NessPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763652164
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard – and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.