Essays Tagged: "writing novels"

Analysis of "Animal Farm" by Eric Blair

at Eton, and after working for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, returned to Europe and started writing novels and essays for a living under his pen name 'George Orwell.' He was a political writer ...

(4 pages) 68 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"Animal Farm" by George Orwell.

nd after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living writing novels and essays. He was a political writer who wrote of his own times. He was a man of int ...

(3 pages) 90 0 3.9 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

What Maisie Knew - Portrait of a Child

What Maisie Knew - Portrait of a ChildAfter his disastrous shot at playwriting, which occupied him for a few years, Henry James finally returned to what he knew best: writ ... an spot the exact point in What Maisie Knew when the Master, suffering from a wrist injury, gave up writing his tale himself and began dictating it to a male secretary. The outrageous sentences that t ... iod--you take in so much information along the way that you're likely to get a bit giddy.The act of writing to James was a highly delicate operation, as if he were building a house of cards, and the l ...

(5 pages) 38 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Animal Farm

nd after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living writing novels and essays. He was a political writer who wrote of his own times. He was a man of int ...

(3 pages) 77 5 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in "As Good as it Gets"

ll is a homophobic, bitter, lonely man. He spends his days in the confinement of his own apartment, writing novels. Each morning he follows a routine, from sitting in the same seat at the restaurant, ...

(5 pages) 113 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Biography of Octavio Paz.

rom his youth Paz's ambition was to be a poet. When he was encouraged by Pablo Neruda, he began his writing career. From 1933 on, he published over 40 books.In 1937, Paz married Elena Garro, but they ... rom his experiences there, he wrote a collection of novels. By the late 40's, Paz took a break from writing novels and became a journalist. He wrote for several magazines, but eventually switched over ...

(1 pages) 32 1 3.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

"Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe

people, who were once a part of the Igbo civilization by "interviewing older people and reading the writings of colonial administration missionaries" ("Short Stories for Students Volume" pg. 17). Once ... ort Stories for Students Volume" pg. 17). Once the civil war began, he decided to shift gears, from writing novels, and focus on poetry and short stories, which one is "Civil Peace." Achebe was born i ...

(6 pages) 40 0 3.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Microserfs (Douglas Coupland)

tures in Vancouver, then making his way to Toronto to write in the papers, and then his present job writing novels, he even does Smirnoff ads for the media. Coupland has written nine different novels, ... ld have probably got more of his jokes. I would definitely consider reading some more of Coupland's writing to further understand his comical views of society.

(4 pages) 8 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

1984 By George Orwell

. The author worked with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma and went to Europe to earn a living by writing novels and essays. This passionate political writer hated totalitarianism, communism, intell ... ernment that suppressed its people¡¦s actions and thoughts: Winston edited records and writings under the command of government officials to make the citizens forget the past and forget t ...

(4 pages) 25 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Jude The Obscure And Tess Of The D’Urbervilles

and Dorchester served as the model for Castorbridge in this novel. The basic pattern he follows in writing novels is the entanglements and cross-purposes resulting form conflicting love affairs, whic ... r personality is revealed through her own feelings, actions, thoughts, and speech. On P.192, she is writing a letter to Henchard. She got Elizabeth to come live with her and be her companion. In the l ...

(18 pages) 2871 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Shirley Ann Grau

brity face. Blind toward what the future had in store, Grau took a daring chance and use talents in writing novels and short stories. With every up there is a down, with every rise there is a fall, an ... rs of grammar school in private institutions. After deciding on Tulane University she shortly began writing stories for college publications, which inspired her ideas as a writer further. She also led ...

(6 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

James Joyce's Araby

began to slip into poverty. He attained a proper education at Jesuit- run schools where "he enjoyed writing essays parodying various literary styles, which won him several large awards" (http://wa.ess ... for the publication of Dubliners. During the twenties and the thirties, the Irishmen lived in Paris writing novels, short stories, poems and plays. In 1931, after years of living together, Nora and Ja ...

(6 pages) 46 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Greek Gifts

world today we use Greek ideas in so many areas it would be very hard to reach all of them without writing novels. The most ideal and observed are ideas about law, democracy, Theatre, mathematics, ph ... also brought the theater in to every Americans home watching plays, biographies, and using the same writing techniques to write today's comedies and traditions. The schools that the worlds children at ...

(7 pages) 29 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Teen Idol

career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favourite hobby writing novels. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including working as the assistant manager ... Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble.Meg is now writing a new middle grade series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls, as well as an edgy new seri ...

(3 pages) 13 2 3.5 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers