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…of characters, with particular reference to two or three pilgrims. In the Canterbury Tales,Geoffrey Chaucer provides us with a cast of characters that illustrates a cross-section of society. A knight and his Squire, a Lawyer and his wealthy landowner friend…

…of the potential of each feeling, emphasis must be exercised. If emphasis was not used, the essence of "The Lord of the Rings" could not be how it is; it would be a monotonous tale without any events of objects with great importance. There are two ways of how Tolkien…

…. Several of the stories were published in Twice-Told Tales in 1837, which, although not a financial success, established Hawthorne as a leading writer. These early works are largely historical sketches and symbolic and allegorical tales dealing with moral…

…pervades American literature. In his thirty-two years (1820-51) of authorship, Cooper produced twenty-nine other long works of fiction and fifteen books. He is widely read in Europe, where his Leatherstocking Tales contributed to the romantic notion…

…The term "Barbarian" is Greek in origin. The Greeks originally levied it at any races who were not of a Greek origin; especially those who threatened Greek civilization and culture. Because most of these "strangers" regularly assaulted Greek cities…

…of triumphant novels including David Copperfield (1850), his own favorite novel, which was partly autobiographical; Bleak House (1853); Hard Times (1854); Little Dorrit (1857); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); Great Expectations (1861); and Our Mutual Friend (1865…

…with Dedalus of course referring to the ancient Greek inventor who fashioned wings from wax and flew away. By examining two of author James Joyce’s works Eveline and Araby, we can draw that both of these stories incorporate love tales. The first case…

…write down his experiences and observations. Frequently Stephen King would place his friends and family into childhood fantasy tales. Stephen King did not receive any real recognition for his writing until college. In the fall of 1967 King finished his…

…after the reader had finished. Once he had found a worn copy of A Tale Of Two Cities in a dumpstar outside a broken down apartment building on the corner of 21st street. It had several burn marks where a cigarette had carelessly been laid by its former…

…are telling the story of animals once enslaved but now free. A tale by the name of Animal Farm takes its reader beyond the typical animal story in which animals perform basic chat and into something much more. The first thing that the book does…