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In the Company of Wolves by Angela Carter Literature Book Report/Review
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Carter demonstrates that with a little updating of the story, which can be done to accommodate the present-day concepts of female living and gender roles, much can be demonstrated about the main point of the story.  By taking a closer look at Carter’s story, one can see how gender roles as well as the reversal of gender roles have an overall effect on the classic fairy tale.
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The Role of Family and Women in Everyday Use by Alice Walker Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in the particular case of Walker`s short story, this set of literary tools is combined to provide an examination of the role of family and women in society. In fact, Walker typically emphasizes in her works the struggles of African American women who are shown in their opposition to racism and sexism.
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Every Man in His Humour Literature Book Report/Review
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The earliest dramatic representation in England is believed to have been the performance of a Latin play in honor of St. Katherine in 1110. Drama originated from the rich symbolic ceremonial of the Church. It was the work of priests who used it as a means of conveying the truths of their religion to the illiterate masses.
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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Literature Book Report/Review
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"Death of Salesman" is troubled with the uneven edges of a devastated dream but on another more disastrous and bitter phase, it also suggests the regrets of a man into madness and the outcome this has on those surrounding him. Willy’s weakening of a man into madness is illustrated through his remembrance of his deceased brother.
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Peter H. Smiths Talons of the Eagle Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the first period, imperialism, does not simply reflect the nature of US foreign policy towards Latin America but is expressive of the dominant nature of international relations. Covering the 1790’s to the 1930s, this was a period in world history that witnessed the rise of multinational empires.
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Macbeth Degree Book Report/Review Literature Book Report/Review
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As the play progresses, Macbeth transforms from a loyal soldier to a cruel and treacherous tyrant and murderer. He changes from a man, who at the beginning of the play is regarded as a man noble and brave, a saviour and a man loyal to the king, to a man who kills driven by the prophecies of the witches and the ambition and evil machinations of his wife Lady Macbeth.
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The Narrative Voices Between The Works of Lucine Finch and Gladys Marie Fry Literature Book Report/Review
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The first-person point of view “is usually subjective” as “we learn the narrator’s thoughts, feelings and reactions to events” (Kilian). There is also the objective first person point of view in which the “narrators don’t delve into thoughts or feelings, but only tell what was said or done without further comment” (Kluz).
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The Archetypal Hero of The Odyssey Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that every hero has to go through five stages of his personal development in order to prove his heroic features and strengths both physical and moral. For Odyssey, the journey becomes the real trial that helps him to prove his courage, glory, and heroism. According to Campbell, the first stage is “a call to adventure”.
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The Role of Gerasim in The Death of Ivan Ilych Literature Essay
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Gerasim is introduced early in the short story and we know his position in the household from this early description. His role is constant, but pivotal and when Ivan dies in peace, we know that is it partially because of Gerasim's influence. The story opens with the announcement of Ivan's death.
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Tragic Form and the Possibility of Meaning in Death of a Salesman Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the supremacy of Death of a Salesman over other worthy American dramas is the compassion of its myth: the serious association of its central character—the Salesman—to the understanding of the entire present-day life. In the representation of salesman, Arthur conveys a figure that is a ritual envoy of industrialized civilization.
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The Space Race in Wolfes Writings Literature Essay
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In my quest for the bigger picture, I came to remember that there was a subject of mine where the Cold War between the United States and the USSR was discussed. I remembered reading that the two nations were rivals not only in armaments and sphere of influence but also in reaching and dominating the space.
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Iliad Does Pity Become a Hero by Devangini Mahapatra Chauhan Literature Book Report/Review
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Homer's poems date back to the 7th or 8th century and have an almost haunting quality in their elements of relentless strength and power. Homer has been credited with demonstrating the nuances of various warrior-like qualities through his heroes. While rumored to be blind, Homer was known as an Ionian poet with great foresight and amazing clarity in his work.
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Language learning for work and life Literature Essay
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The author states that the instruction material should be presented in terms that are not just familiar to the student but which allow him/her to constructively utilize their pre-existing linguistic tools and knowledge for the more effective absorption of the new. The primary obstacle to effective L2 learning is learner psychology.
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The Debt What America Owes to Blacks Literature Essay
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Robertson supports his arguments by Jewish and Japanese Americans reparations, but, they were completely different processes that took place during WWII. If we accept Robertson's view, we should agree that the USA has to pay the population of Iraq for the damage caused by military operations, which ruined their houses and life.
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Book Review. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Literature Book Report/Review
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Set mainly in Kerala, India, in the 1960s, "The God of Small Things" is about two children, the two-egg twins Estha (brother) and Rahel (sister), and the shocking consequences of the death-by-drowning of Sophie Mol, their English cousin.
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Desiree Baby by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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In spite of their southern locale, Chopin’s stories rarely deal with racial relations between whites and blacks. One important exception is “Desiree’s Baby” (1892). Desiree Valmonde, who was originally a founding, marries Armand Aubigny, a plantation owner who is proud of his aristocratic heritage but very much in love with Desiree.
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The Poetry of Billy Collins Literature Essay
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The author has rightly presented that Billy Collins may be writing on a very simple thing like missing a vacation, or a disquieting thing like the beginning of dementia, or on a profound philosophy of life. However, the researcher states that each his poem is treated in a unique way to make it interesting and funny.
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Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal Essay Literature Essay
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While the structure of the essay does follow that of a scientific proposal in Swift’s time, the ostensible structure of the paper does not actually show Swift’s true opinions, until late in the paper. The power of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” does not stem, in large part, from its irony.
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A Confederacy of Dunces Literature Book Report/Review
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Many fictional characters have had an influence on my life, but there has been one in particular that stands out. It would be difficult if not ridiculous to say that I have patterned my way of life on this character; in fact, I think it would be disturbing to find that anyone had patterned their way of life on this character.
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Black Rain And Its Radioactive Effects Literature Book Report/Review
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The main character Yasuko embodies one example of thousands who have had to live with all of the radioactive effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. I will attempt to cover one of the main facets of its impact which is that of the physical effects of radiation on food sources. The effects of nuclear radiation can last for years as shown by Yasuko.
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Firefly - Genre Exchange in the Construction of Narrative and Character Literature Essay
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Science fiction as popular entertainment appeals to many ages and across many cultural boundaries. The process of writing and producing such mass entertainment is always a gamble. This essay seeks to assess the relative meanings of the type of ‘realism’ used in a science fiction series and will consider this contested term via thematic content.
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Discord sows punishment in Romeo and Juliet Literature Book Report/Review
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Romeo and Juliet was a play written by William Shakespeare and performed in public around 1594. It was a tragic story about a pair of star crossed lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
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To Kill the Mockingbird by Scout Finch Literature Essay
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The thesis for this paper holds that the lead character Lousie learns from the environment within which she grows and by doing so, adapts to conditions and circumstances that one would not expect the average everyday girl to cope with. Scout is the protagonist of the story and the novel starts off when she was 6 years old.
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Vision of Apocalypse in Nightfall by Isaac Asimov Literature Book Report/Review
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From very ancient times people were eager to know what would happen tomorrow, day after tomorrow, or even in the far future. So that obscurity pushed people to dream about the next days imagine and create different pictures about the future in their minds. But it often happens that things which are strange to people cause fear and uncertainness.
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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht Literature Book Report/Review
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The three unities of time, place, and action, considered to be the touchstone of success of a good drama, is given the go-by Brecht in a daring move to shift the scenes of the play across nations and spanning a decade.  However, this departure has not in any way dampened the enthusiasm of the audience all over the world to appreciate Brechtian content.
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The Long Valley by John Steinbeck Literature Essay
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The author states that the relationship between the description of the setting which is an external landscape, and its relationship to the characters, is one of great importance and significance, and is the most primary issue in the discussion of this compilation of short stories. The aim of this paper is to discuss this matter.
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Hamlet By William Shakespeare Literature Book Report/Review
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Before Denmark sunk to its worst, Gertrude had been a role model for women; she was faithfully married to the king and was true and loyal to his every wish. However, just as Eve succumbed to evil in the Garden of Eden, Gertrude was swift to turn against her husband, thereby succumbing to the hypocrisy that was becoming common to Elsinore.  
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Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried Literature Book Report/Review
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In this book, he has used the theme of ‘metafiction’, which is an act of writing about writing (for example – memories of the writer). It tells the readers that the stories, which are in the fictional form, can sometimes be more realistic. These stories are partly fictional and partly based on his real-life experiences.  
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Greed and Glory on Wall Street by Ken Auletta Literature Book Report/Review
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The following paper analyses the book titled Greed and Glory on Wall Street by Ken Auletta. The paper begins by capturing the gist of the book and discusses Auletta’s style of writing. Hardly dogmatic in approach for a work of non-fiction, it is an absorbing narrative of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
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Analysis of Hamlet Play Authored by Shakespeare Literature Essay
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Shakespeare's hero became the burning spokesman of those new sights brought by the Renaissance when the advanced minds of mankind aspired to restore not only the loss for the millennium of Middle Ages understanding of ancient world art but also the trust of the person to own forces without hopes on favor and help of heaven.
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The summary of the novel Saints at the River Literature Essay
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The novel portrays the tragedy that happens to a young girl, Ruth Kowalsky, who drowns near the falls of an environmentally protected Tamassee River. It is especially notable here that this compelling novel, an "eco-thriller of ideas," has been critically acclaimed by many for its environmental concerns, regional voice and other themes.
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The Annotated Lolita Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that a number of moments that are of immense importance in the novel signify the existence of fate and random chance. Sudden, horrible deaths take place often in Lolita which clearly shows that death is something unexpected and related to fate. Identifying the unexpected deaths of the story is not complicated.
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The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien Literature Book Report/Review
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This research paper intends to find out the innovative strategy of the writer in presenting the various self-governing chapters or stories in an organized and unified entity. Background and Research Issues: The Things They Carried has been praised for the writer’s ambition in attempting to convey the horror of war and the power of storytelling.
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Power, Knowledge, and Authority in Romeo and Juliet Literature Book Report/Review
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Additionally, Derrida's perspective as it relates to the meaning-making of Romeo and Juliet will be analyzed. The different languages of the theatre being used will be discussed. Finally, a synthesis of the discussion will be presented. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) created was a critic of literary texts, as well as philosophical ones.
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A Rose for Emily W. Faulkner Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that specific settings and symbols help Faulkner to create an atmosphere of horror and mystery Thesis Two passages under analysis symbolize a state of depression and loneliness of Miss Emily, her hidden expectations and unusual behavior. The first passage symbolizes that Miss Emily differs greatly from society.
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Literature Book Report/Review
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Considering that many of these characters contrast vastly in the first place, it is only reasonable to assume that each of these characters have a different reason to be drawn to Toru.The first two people to consider are Naoko and Kizuki. Naoko was Kizuki' girlfriend in high school, and Kizuki was Toru best friend.
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The idea of masculinity and femininity in Jean Rhys novel Wide Sargasso Sea Literature Essay
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The fictional scaffolding is only to support her unconcealed life experience. Rhys once called herself, a doormat in a world of boots. The recurring theme of her writing is the helpless female and outsider in a patriarchal milieu.The feminist literature as a genre is relatively new.
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Jack London and Steven Crane Literature Book Report/Review
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I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. In the literary genree 'Naturalism' , 'Naturalismm' there is a representation of real life forces which are negative. The writers apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment in their study of humans.
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Race Relations in the Poetry of Langston Hughes Literature Essay
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His blackness lies at the core of much of his work, and he is not shy about pointing fingers when he sees a guilty party, although he is just as likely to joke as to get angry. The race was a prominent theme in his work, but even more obvious in his earlier writing is the hopeful optimism of the idealist.
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When the war is over by William Stanley Merwin and Todays Society Literature Essay
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Unpunctuated and far from grammatical; almost rebellious, W.S. Merwin's poem "When the war is over" deals with a subject that could have been addressed at any point in the history of mankind: war. Thousands of disputes --geographical, economical, and even amorous, among others-- have been settled in the battle field.
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Literature Book Report/Review
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Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is set in the 1950s when the racial discrimination was overt and the play explicitly portrays the distress, anxiety and tragedy as well as the conviction, hope and commitment towards better prospects. This play is a part of the legacy which strived for equality and justice for the racially discriminated class.
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Literature Book Report/Review
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“The Things They Carried’ is based on the theme of psychological pressure caused by war time and military actions. This theme is depicted through material and emotional things the soldiers carry. O’Brien serviced two years in the infantry (1969-1970) and participated in one of the cruelest military operations near village My Lai Massacre (1968).
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Alice Walker Is One of the Best-Known Writers in the US Literature Essay
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Walker accidentally lost sight of one eye. Walker felt like she was no longer a little girl because of the traumatic experience she had undergone, and she was filled with shame because she thought she was unpleasant to look at. During this seclusion from other kids her age, Walker began to write poems. Hence, her career as a writer began.
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Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse Literature Book Report/Review
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Although T.S. Eliot is widely known for his literary works as his famous poems Pufrock and Other Observations (1917), The Waste Land (1922) or Four Quartets (1935-1942) and his famous plays such as Murder in the Cathedral (1927) or The Rock (1927); he is also considered one of the finest literary critics of the twentieth century[1].    
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The Carpe Diem Prophesy of Herrick Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that if the expectation is about hope, love, lust, and truth, then there is also a burning desire to control all of these and not quite leave it up to Fate to deliver them. But if fate must have it all, these texts must find a way to make peace with it or fight it or give it with dignity and yet give in to the temptation of tricking it!
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The Literature of exile and imaginary homelands in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Literature Essay
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The essay describes a lived reality of national identity through main themes in Salman Rushdie’s novels. These themes are exile, home, history, memory. Rushdie rewrites the history of India and create a new method of creating a national narrative. He questions colonial and post-colonial attempts to narrate and as a result he recreates the nation in his novels.
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The Battle for Bunker Hill by Richard M. Ketchum Literature Essay
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In his breathtaking book, Ketchum provides a significant exploration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place on June 17, 1775, on and around Breed's Hill, and the author gives an interesting account of the ensuing fight.
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The Road by McCarthy Literature Essay
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McCarthy is shocked by the conditions under which refugees live in the world and he has placed them in a different landscape only to highlight their plight. They are people with no present and no future. They are living on bare minimum and the parallels that the author has drawn only helps us understand their condition with more clarity.
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Heart of Darkness by Conrad Literature Essay
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According to the paper, Conrad was an exemplary Saussurean writer. He exceeded the Saussurean model, and the ways he did so actually provide the grounds for a compelling critique of Saussure and the whole idea of a language machine. Saussure based his theory of language on the self-contained system of signs in a given linguistic community.
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own & Orlando Literature Book Report/Review
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The main feature of Virginia Woolf's novels is that she could characterize persons of the opposite sex as convincingly as those of her own. Mrs. Woolf classified authors according to the androgyneity. The novel Orlando had many interpretations. It is not only a fantasy. The technique of the expression of its thought is functional.
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