Essays Tagged: "greatest novels"

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

One of Thomas Hardy's greatest novels, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, was published in 1891. The novel was set during this 19t ...

(5 pages) 130 2 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Realism In Fitzergerald's "The Great Gatsby"

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been labelled a masterpiece, and perhaps even one of the greatest novels of all time. In order to be revered as a classic, a novel must have one or more qual ...

(3 pages) 162 1 4.1 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Excellent work on The Scarlet Letter, with a Christian based theme. Term paper, very long, suitable for thesis, etc.

ne hours a day for six months to churn out this nice piece of literature, possibly one of America's greatest novels. The writing of this book marked a phase shift in Hawthorne's life. The end of the s ... es his lips, breaking the spell that bound her to him and he dies.Chillingworth is portrayed as the greatest sinner in the book. His sin inevitably ends in his death. He has been called "the old leech ...

(13 pages) 234 0 3.6 Jun/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Cencorship of the Internet

ational, corporate, and government computers. Censorship has rewritten history, removed some of the greatest novels from our schools, and is now threatening our very last hope of freedom of informatio ...

(4 pages) 58 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Essay Comparison The Great Gatsby and The Talented Mr. Ripley

y and The Talented Mr. RipleyIt can be seen that "The Great Gatsby," by Scott Fitzgerald is one the greatest novels of all time. Its method to depict The American Dream has been attempted to be matche ...

(7 pages) 74 0 3.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

How would you characterize the women of "The Trial" by Franz Kafka? Do they seem like real people?

"The Trial", a novel written by Franz Kafka, has been considered to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. However, it has also been greatly controversial, and has gone f ...

(6 pages) 35 0 3.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Book Review: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

best. It is an undisputed classic of American literature from the post-war period and is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.This book is set in America, post-war in the 1920s, the eme ...

(4 pages) 29 0 3.5 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Story Of Heathcliff

ous literary work is her novel, Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights is considered to be one of the greatest novels in English Literature. The novel is indicative of Bronte in that it is full of fierc ...

(3 pages) 8 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Internet Censorship

ing source of information. A plague that has slowly infected all of America is now spreading to the greatest thing that man has ever created in the world of knowledge. This terrible plague, that has s ... a lie, is called "censorship." Censorship has rewritten history, removed some of the greatest novels from our schools, and is now threatening our very last hope of freedom of informatio ...

(4 pages) 19 0 0.0 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Edith Wharton

d War I was over, Edith Wharton busied herself with the writing of what turned out to be one of her greatest novels, The Age of Innocence. She alternated between her two homes in France. After a 1926 ... cism; and autobiography. Although she has been highly commended for all of her published works, her greatest achievement is undoubtedly in the area of the novel, featuring such literary masterworks as ...

(2 pages) 1213 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Heart of darkness

in the British Merchant Navy and so mastered his adopted language and was able to write some of its greatest novels.Conrad used experiences of his life in many of his works. From his voyages in the In ...

(6 pages) 12 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The bronte sisters, jane eyre

(23). By comparison, the bleak, lonely moors of Yorkshire serve as the same setting for two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights ("Bronte" CD-ROM). Accord ...

(11 pages) 27 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Mark twain

e autumn of 1839(Miller x ). His experiences in this small town would help him to write some of his greatest novels. Twain's best work was often characterized by broad, irreverent humor, realism, love ... of humor and satire is, as agreed by most of the experts in that field, what made Twain one of the greatest writers of American literature.

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Wuthering Heights Love And Betrayal

Love and Betrayal Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is considered to be one of the greatest novels written in the English language. Due to Heathcliff and Catherine's love relationship ... grow up together. As children "she was much too fond of Heathcliff," Nelly tells Mr.Lockwood, "The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him" (50). They are best f ...

(6 pages) 18 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Fitzgerald Formula: Comparing The Great Gatsby to the Lees of Happiness and the Camel's Back

F Scott Fitzgerald is often hailed as one of the greatest writers in the subject of the Jazz Age, a term he is even credited to have coined. He wrote ... the Lees of Happiness. But of course, The Great Gatsby will go down in history as being one of the greatest novels ever written. These stories have many things in common, and are, in fact, written in ... ing able to interject his stories with facts and anecdotes from his own life is one of Fitzgerald's greatest strengths. We can see in The Camel's Back a similar kind of autobiographical undertone. Per ...

(8 pages) 19 0 5.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature