The Literature Book

239 The rise of the Nazis saw the emergence of writer-refugees whose homelands became hostile environments due to politics (Marx ...

THE CALL OF THE WILD (1903), JACK LONDON The masterpiece of American writer London (1876–1916), The Call of the Wild, a popular ...

BREAKING WITH TRADITION A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (1916), JAMES JOYCE The first novel by Irish writer Joyce (see p ...

image of the British Raj. He also shows the marginalization of women in a milieu where male friendships are strong and mutally s ...

BREAKING WITH TRADITION from a line in Shakespeare’s The Tempest—a vision of a dystopian future, set in London around the year 2 ...

THE BOOK OF DISQUIET (WRITTEN c.1913–35; PUBLISHED 1982), FERNANDO PESSOA Described by Portuguese author Pessoa (1888–1935) as a ...

BREAKING WITH TRADITION THE FOUNTAINHEAD (1943), AYN RAND A study of the triumph of individual artistic vision when confronted b ...

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I n 1945, much of the world was reeling from three decades of turmoil: two cataclysmic world wars, separated by a global Great D ...

These techniques, developed by European writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Günter Grass, were an inspiration to the new genera ...

BIG BROTHER IS NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1949), GEORGE ORWELL WATCHING YOU US_250-255_1984.indd 250 08/10/2015 13:08 ...

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252 D ystopian literature is a genre that portrays the nightmarish vision of a society that is the polar opposite of a utopia (a ...

253 The role of the Ministry of Truth is to intimidate and terrify the population into compliance. Orwell describes the ministry ...

254 population: these are run by the Thought Police, who supervise the protection of the ruling Party. Everyman’s rebellion Orwe ...

255 A Soviet poster depicts Stalin as the revered leader. Orwell’s dystopia was shaped by his experience in Spain, where the Sta ...

256 I’M SEVENTEEN NOW, AND SOMETIMES I ACT LIKE I’M ABOUT THIRTEEN THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (1951), J. D. SALINGER N umerous autho ...

257 See also: The Sorrows of Young Werther 104 ■ The Magic Mountain 224–27 ■ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 241 ■ The B ...

258 See also: The Little Prince 238–39 ■ The Tin Drum 270 –71 ■ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 289 ■ Death of a Naturali ...