How to Begin Studying English Literature (Palgrave Study Guides)

by: Nicholas Marsh
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This guide provides basic study techniques for students of English in the UK. The first part covers analysis; how to find themes in a work, how characters support a theme, the general structure of a story, the use of style and imagery, and how to study irony. The second part describes how to compose and write essays during an English examination.

The language in the book is kept simple and there is hardly any jargon. In each chapter, a method for studying each topic is first described and then a worked example is demonstrated. No particular interpretation is pushed and the student is encouraged to read works and come to their own conclusions. All the techniques are then brought together in the chapters on essay writing.

Although aimed at students, this guide would help anyone who is interested in gaining a better understanding of literature.

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Designing Writing Assignments

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Effective student writing begins with well-designed classroom assignments. In Designing Writing Assignments, veteran educator Traci Gardner offers practical ways for teachers to develop assignments that will allow students to express their creativity and grow as writers and thinkers while still addressing the many demands of resource-stretched classrooms.

Gardner explores how to balance pedagogical and curricular goals with the needs of multiple learners while managing everyday challenges such as mandates, testing, and the paper load. She uses her classroom experience to provide ideas on how to effectively define a writing task, explore the expectations for a composition activity, and assemble the supporting materials that students need to do their best work.

This book includes dozens of starting points that teachers can customize and further develop for the students in their own classrooms.


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The Short Oxford History of English Literature

By Andrew Sanders
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 650, Date: 1994
ISBN-10 : 0199263388, no cover, pdf, OCR, 2.19 MB

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The Short Oxford History of English Literature is the most comprehensive and scholarly history of English Literature on the market. It offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in eleven chapters covering all the major periods of English literature chronologically.

Professor Sanders provides detailed analyses of the major writers and their works and examines the impact of British literature on contemporary political, social and intellectual developments.

This third edition has been revised and updated for a 21st century reader, incorporating discussion of a greater number of female and contemporary authors.

It's third edition was published in 2004.

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A History of English Literature

By Edward Albert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 664, Date: 2000
ISBN-10 : 0195612248, 0245532471, pdf from doc. OCR, 2.41 MB

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Albert's History of English Literature has won for itself a secure place as a study of literary history and criticism. This is the 26 th impression. Its continued popularity suggests that the value of its judgments remains for the most part unimpaired. J. A. Stone has revised this edition.

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Writing Fiction For Dummies

By Randy Ingermanson, Peter Economy
Publisher: For Dummies
Pages: 384, Date: 2009-12-02
ISBN-10 : 0470530707, PDF 3.4 MB's Full

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A complete guide to writing and selling your novel
So you want to write a novel? Great! That’s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don’t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher. Writing Fiction for Dummies is a complete guide designed to coach you every step along the path from beginning writer to royalty-earning author.

Here are some things you’ll learn in Writing Fiction for Dummies:

* Strategic Planning: Pinpoint where you are on the roadmap to publication; discover what every reader desperately wants from a story; home in on a marketable category; choose from among the four most common creative styles; and learn the self-management methods of professional writers.
* Writing Powerful Fiction: Construct a story world that rings true; create believable, unpredictable characters; build a strong plot with all six layers of complexity of a modern novel; and infuse it all with a strong theme.
* Self-Editing Your Novel: Psychoanalyze your characters to bring them fully to life; edit your story structure from the top down; fix broken scenes; and polish your action and dialogue.
* Finding An Agent and Getting Published: Write a query letter, a synopsis, and a proposal; pitch your work to agents and editors without fear.

Writing Fiction For Dummies takes you from being a writer to being an author. It can happen—if you have the talent and persistence to do what you need to do.

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The Art of Racing in the Rain By Garth Stein

By Garth Stein
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers 2008
Date: 2008-01-01, ISBN-10 : 1554681723
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I have bought 3 copies of this book, so far. What a wonderful, wonderful well-written book! Not at all what I expected. To go down as one of the best reads! Loved Marley, but this writing is exceptional, the dealing with all the issues, and fascinating 'person'.

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

By: Marjane Satrapi
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages: 300, Date: 2005-10-25
ISBN : 0375423966, Rar PDF Filesize: 68,6 Mb

Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.

The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.

Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.

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The Reversal By Michael Connelly

By Michael Connelly
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400, Date: 2010-10-05
ISBN-10 : 0316069485, epub 401 kb

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Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence.

Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.

Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.

With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again

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PDF For A Feast for Crows

By George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Spectra
Pages: 784, Date: 2005-11-08
ISBN-10 : 0553801503, PDF + gif 2.30 Mb

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Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.

A Feast for Crows
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil.

Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.

But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead.

Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.

It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.

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Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers

By Rachelle Rogers Knight
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Pages: 320, Date: 2010-04-01
ISBN-10 : 1402237189, PDF 10 mb

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The ultimate organizing resource for book-lovers and a self-published hit, Read, Remember, Recommend gives readers a one-stop shop to keep track of their reading. Featuring 60 cross-referenced lists of literary awards and notable picks (Pulitzer, National Book Award, 100 Best Books of the Century), this journal offers more than 2500 suggestions to help readers discover great literature and new authors.

The journal also provides room to record books read, jot down thoughts and ideas, and keep track of recommendations, books borrowed and loaned, and book club history.

Unlike anything on the market, Read, Remember Recommend keeps readers coming back to bookstores to purchase recommended books, creates opportunities for add-on and return sales, and celebrates the readers' love of books.

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Dear John By Nicholas Sparks

Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Date: 2006-01-01
ISBN-10 : 0446580945, epub 351KB

An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life - until he meets Savannah, the girl of his dreams. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart.

But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else.

"Dear John," the letter read, and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love - and face the hardest decision of his life.

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The Unnamed By Joshua Ferris

Author  Joshua Ferris
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
Pages: 320, Publication Date: 2010-01-18
ISBN-10 : 0316034010, epub, zip 496 KB

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He was going to lose the house and everything in it.
The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday.

Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important.

And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world.

He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.

THE UNNAMED is a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

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The Language of Literature: British Literature

By Arthur N. Applebee, Andrea B. Bermudez, Sheridan Blau, Rebekah Caplan, Peter Elbow, Susan Hynds
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Pages: 1512, Date: 2001-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0618170758

British Literature is your gateway to the literature, authors, and time periods featured in your textbook. The resources and activities below will help you dive into British literature, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry to the modern voices of contemporary British writers. Find links to help you with your research projects, learn more about your favorite authors, or get your own writing published

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Catching Fire | 5 ebooks Format

By Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Pages: 400, Date: 2009-09-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0439023491
PDF, EPUB, LIT, PRC, HTML | 5.32 MB

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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

This was a highly anticipated book, and it definitely did not disappoint. I actually pre-ordered this, something I haven't done since Harry Potter #5. The story picks up almost a year after the Hunger Games ended, with Katniss and Peeta now living in the winner's village and trying to recover some semblance of a normal life. Katniss still isn't sure how to deal with Peeta and Gale and definitely isn't sure how she truly feels about either of them.

And worse of all, it will soon be time for another Games, and no one knows what the Capitol has planned for the Quarter Quell, the 75th anniversary of the games. Katniss knows she is still on the President's naughty list, and there's no way she can feel safe.

I refuse to post any spoilers, but I assure you that it's not what you expect. This book is a lot more political, as we learn more about the districts and how life truly is throughout Panem. There's not quite as much suspense or heavy violence here as in The Hunger Games, but the ending will leave you breathless and dying for the next book.

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PDF books | A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination

By Angus Fletcher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages: 336, Date: 2004-01-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0674012011, Rar'd PDF ~ 698 KB's Bookmarked


Description:
Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art that will resonate well into the new century.

Breaking with the tired habit of treating American poets as the happy or rebellious children of European romanticism, Fletcher uncovers a distinct lineage for American poetry. His point of departure is the fascinating English writer, John Clare; he then centers on the radically American vision expressed by Emerson and Walt Whitman.

With Whitman this book insists that "the whole theory and nature of poetry" needs inspiration from science if it is to achieve a truly democratic vista. Drawing variously on Complexity Theory and on fundamentals of art and grammar, Fletcher argues that our finest poetry is nature-based, environmentally shaped, and descriptive in aim, enabling poets like John Ashbery and other contemporaries to discover a mysterious pragmatism.

Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. While centering on American vision, the argument extends our horizon, striking a blow against all economically sanctioned attacks upon the finer, stronger human capacities. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.


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PDF The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic Press | 2008-09-14
ISBN: 0439023483, PDF
384 pages 1.03 MB

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games.

" The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

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NOVEL : The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Publisher: Knopf
Pages: 480, Publication Date: 2010-05-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 030726999X
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In the third volume in the explosive trilogy that has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed while a killer lurks next door

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Stieg Larsson For The Girl Who Played with Fire

By Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Knopf
Pages: 512, Publication Date: 2009-07-28
ISBN-10: 0307269981, zip 0.4 mb

Description: Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.

But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander—the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire.

As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.

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Free 13 Novel Collection

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13 Novels For Your Pleasure.

Archive Contents:

Richard Hawke - 2007 - Cold Day in Hell

John Connolly - The Black Angel.

Elkins Aaron - Unnatural Selection.

Palmer Raymond - The Hell Ship.

Poppy Z. Brite - Wandering the Borderlands.

Karen Chance - Claimed by Shadow.

John Connolly - The Unquiet.

Hambly Barbara - Winterlands - Dragons Bane.

Willows Caitlin - Body Double.

Mythology - The Lore Of The Gods, Book 3 - The Egyptian Gods.

Mythology - History - Egypt - Egyptian Myth and Legend.

Richard Hawke - Speak of the Devil.

Lessor Milton - Black Eyes and the Daily Grind.

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The Lost Symbol (Hardcover)

By Dan Brown
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Pages: 528, Date: 2009-09-15
ISBN-10 : 0385504225


Dan Brown’s new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code, which was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time, will be published on September 15, 2009.

The Lost Symbol will once again feature Dan Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon.

“The Lost Symbol is a brilliant and compelling thriller. Dan Brown’s prodigious talent for storytelling, infused with history, codes and intrigue, is on full display in this new book. This is one of the most anticipated publications in recent history, and it was well worth the wait,” said Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor in Chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Brown’s longtime editor, Jason Kaufman, Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday said, “Nothing ever is as it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. This book’s narrative takes place in a twelve-hour period, and from the first page, Dan’s readers will feel the thrill of discovery as they follow Robert Langdon through a masterful and unexpected new landscape. The Lost Symbol is full of surprises.”

"This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey," said Brown. "Weaving five years of research into the story's twelve-hour timeframe was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon’s life clearly moves a lot faster than mine."

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