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 | | Chapter one is a checklist of novels, alphabetical by author; Chapter two is a list of short stories; Chapter 3 is an annotated list of secondary sources including bibliographies and critical and general studies. | | | Entries include brief biographies, annotated list of works and annotated critical sources from books and journals. | | | “Lists of book and articles divided into biography, general commentary, and selective criticism of specific titles. |
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http://library.msstate.edu/reference/blackhis.asp?print=yes
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| | BCLS-Web guide for literary criticisms |
| | Links to critical and biographical websites about authors and their works which can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. | | | There is also a chronological list of literary periods, from medieval through contemporary. | | | Author and title guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, including ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels, horror and supernaturalist literature written prior 1950. |
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http://www.bcls.lib.nj.us/Webguides/litcrit.html
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| | CVCO - Overbooked: Fiction Stars 1999 |
| | Prize-winning Caribbean novelist Maryse Conde reimagines Emily Bronte's passionate novel as a tale of obsessive love between the "African" Rayze and Cathy, the mulatto daughter of the man who takes Rayze in and raises him, but whose treatment goads Rayze into rebellious flight. | | | A Russian princess, a refugee from the Bolsheviks, abandoned by a faithless husband, flees with her child to France, where she is subsequently found half-naked on a riverbank next to a body of a man with a terrible wound on his head. | | | One of the freshest voices in European fiction offers this evocative tale of a literature professor who must reunite her divided soul in a love affair with the physical embodiment of her suppressed self. |
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http://freenet.vcu.edu/education/literature/stars/fiction/af99stars2.html
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| | Gale Literature Series & Literary Index |
| | Commentary on the careers and works of novelists, short story writers, dramatists, poets and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899. | | | Each entry also includes a list of principle works, an author interview when available and an annotated bibliography of additional reading. | | | Most titles contain an author, title and nationality index. |
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http://www.bothell.washington.edu/library/guides/galeguide.htm
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| | List of novelists by nationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dan Brown, (born 1964), author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons | | | Honoré de Balzac, (1799-1850), author of La Comedie Humaine, a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century | | | Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), poet and novelist, author of Post Office, Factotum |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_novelists_by_nationality
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| | Z999 Annotated listing of books, pamphlets and articles published from the 1890s M34x through the 1980s. | | | G66 Lists classical studies and modern sources on the position of Greek and Roman women from the earliest records to 476 A.D. Works in English covered extensively; in other languages, selectively. | | | Titles listed alphabetically by author with separate subject, author and title indexes. |
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http://www.albany.edu/~dlafonde/womguide2.html
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| | Gale - St James Press - Catalog |
| | This 7th edition of Contemporary Novelists includes biographies, bibliographies and critical essays on approximately 650 contemporary writers, 100 new to this edition. |
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http://www.galegroup.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=812&titleCode=ZZCN&type=4&id=200939
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| | This list provides the full title of the cited periodical making it easier to locate the title in the library's periodicals holdings list. | | | A bibliography is a good source of articles and books about an author's work in general and of a specific work (novel, story or poem). | | | Critiques published in both books and periodicals are listed. |
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http://www.shsu.edu/~lib_www/resources/bibs/_pdf/LITERARY.B25.doc
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| | Marijuana - The First Twelve Thousand Years - The Jazz Era |
| | Having exhausted the drug diaries and confessions of the hashish user genre that had been so Popular among the French, inventive novelists and pulp magazine writers saw that they could still use marihuana to sell their works. | | | As a nation raised on violence, Americans soaked up these tales of mayhem like a sponge. | | | Around the turn of the century, New Orleans became the Marseilles of America, a cosmopolitan port filled with sailors, traders, gamblers, prostitutes, thieves, con men, and gangsters of every nationality. |
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http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/first12000/12.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Top 10s Frank Delaney: Irish novels |
| | Fools of Fortune makes it into this list because of its rightful place among great books that deal with the Irish question. | | | I would also have chosen Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel and cited it as exciting because it appeared early in Trevor's writing life and heralded the wonderful powers of observation and characterisation that appear like flashes of lighting in his short stories. | | | Joyce hammered a job on the novel so complete that he became a category unto himself. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,6109,1299168,00.html
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| | The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper's Historical Inventions, and his Cave |
| | Richards pointed out to one of his family the proper route they should have taken to get into the valley of the Schroon, where the final chapters of the book are laid. | | | His knowledge was second hand, although his map may be good enough for a novelist's purposes. | | | We remember that Cooper made Lieutenant Colonel Munro an old and service-worn officer, rugged of fame, and stalwart in character, called by the Indiana "Grey-head."43 I imagine these are but adroit touches of the novelist to add vraisemblance to his tale. |
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http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/nyhistory/1917nyhistory-holden.html
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| | Intruder in the Dust was a commercial success, the first to become a bestseller since Sanctuary....The many later editions of this novel attest to its popularity and to the fact that publishers and readers alike responded to the psychological and moral lessons in addition to the wild adventures. | | | As a writer Flaubert was a perfectionist, who did not make a distinction between a beautiful or ugly subject: all was in the style. | | | Outstanding Books for the College Bound "The books on this list will give you the opportunity to see yourself and the world in a new way; to reconnect with memories; and open doors to discovery, knowledge, adventure, and enchantment. |
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http://www.rnoon.com/talent/books.htm
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| | Unfortunately, there's not much description of indexed sites; the format here is mainly of a list. | | | - Bibliographies Tab: Lists of books by the authors or about him or her. | | | NVOT maintains a subscription to Book Review Digest, which excerpts book reviews on novels printed between 1920 and 2002. |
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http://www.nvnet.org/nvhs/lmc/pathfinders/PathEng3.html
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| | Literary Index - LI - Message |
| | If you conducted a Title Search, your results list will contain the titles of works and the names of the authors who wrote them (if applicable) that match your search. | | | The index record will show you the author's birth and death years (if applicable and known), the pseudonyms the author has written under (if applicable), and a listing of the Gale literature products that contain an entry on the author. | | | The author record also contains the titles of works by the author that are discussed in Gale's literature products. |
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http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex/litindex5.htm?u=LitIndex&o=DocTitle&l=h
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| | Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Comparative_Literature Archives |
| | The list consists of 2 authors and 318 novels. | | | In this regard, I & T invites studies that deal with the importation and/or exportation of literary models through translation, and the transformation of national literary discourses through intercultural dialogues made possible by translation and transculturation make possible. | | | I am including the master list of novelists and novels. |
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http://www.unm.edu/~loboblog/mort/archives/cat_comparative_literature.html
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| | Has a chronology (sketchy and incomplete), a bibliographical section "For Further Research" consisting of General Reference Guides (8 listed but not annotated), General Critical Studies (4 listed but not annotated), Studies of Individual Writers (12 listed, but not annotated), and The Gothic Tradition (5 titles listed, but not annotated). | | | Concludes with an index and a Glossary of Critical and Historical Terms, wholly inadequate for the serious student since it contains a mere five entries on circulating libraries, closure, romanticism, the sublime, and Whig and Tory parties. | | | By placing readers in "imaginative dilemmas of victimization" Radcliffe's novel investigates the super-iority of English over Italian. |
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http://www.pagedepot.com/thesicklytaper/SSS.HTML
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| | Library Resources Italian |
| | A list of journals dedicated to Dante studies that include tables of contents of all articles. | | | An ongoing project of online images of Italian literary manuscripts provided by the National Library of Rome. | | | CLC Select includes significant published criticism on works of selected novelists, poets, critics, dramatists, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after 1959. |
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll/resources/italian/libraries.html
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| | Louise Yelin’s rich and thoughtful study brings together three white women novelists who published during the second half of the twentieth century: Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing are still writing; Christina Stead died in 1983. | | | Yelin reads Stead’s masterpiece, The Man Who Loved Children, as a national family romance in which the household is the polis, the father the tyrant. | | | She uses Kristeva’s theory of abjection and Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque to explain the mother as an anarchic, disorderly feminine force who subverts the rule of the father. |
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http://www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/winter2000/yelinreview.html
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| | A Memoir of Ethna Carbery |
| | These books, but especially her book of poems, rapidly running through edition after edition, were to be found, well-thumbed and well-worn, in thousands of the little cottages, in the remotest mountains of Ireland. | | | "I am only a blacksmith's daughter working for my living at uncongenial work, but I am of the class she wrote for, the class to which all poets and novelists must appeal for that love, which alone means true success. | | | This is I think the supreme proof of her Irish greatness–her priority as Ireland's National poet. |
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http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/carbery/carbery.html
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| | Click on a genre and click "Search." To select more than one genre in one search, hold down the key while clicking on the genres you want. | | | Select "Literary Themes Search" to find major authors associated with a particular literary theme. | | | Select "Genre Search" from the "Literature Resources Center" main menu. |
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http://www.win.org/library/intres/irr/other/elecweb/galelit.html
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography |
| | Yet his fiction did more than merely report on his times, or on himself as a prototypical representative, for Fitzgerald had the gift of double vision. | | | Here as in all novels since The Beautiful and Damned, he wanted to place the contemporaneous activities of his characters into a wider historical context (he had linked Diver, significantly, with General Grant). | | | With people and events alike, as Andrew Turnbull observed, |
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http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/fitzgeraldbio.html
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| | Amazon.com: Sky of Stone : A Memoir: Books |
| | During times of national crisis, it is all the more important for our nation to honor those heroes whose moral compass is true and whose voice reminds us of the unspoken, but genuine, values which symbolize greatness. | | | Call it the Coalwood way, label it steadfastness of purpose, name it resolute adherence to hard work and internal discipline -- whatever words you wish to describe the genuine virtues of Homer Hickam, your commentary will not miss the mark. | | | I think that Hickam is something of an American hero and he has downplayed a life that the Nation can be proud of. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440240921?v=glance
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| | Latin American Collection at Yale University |
| | Caribbean women novelists : an annotated critical bibliography (Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Olga Torres-Seda, comp. | | | Caribbean women novelists : an annotated critical bibliography | | | Critical studies are listed under each author and grouped by genre. |
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http://www.library.yale.edu/latinamerica/reference_lit.html
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| | Even in the dim Latin copy, through which we chiefly know it, the grace of the original is not wholly obliterated. | | | He says of the authors of New Comedy, "They wrote not like Eupolis and Aristophanes for a great nation; but rather for a cultivated society which spent its time... | | | But in the fear that this may fall under the eye of that larger public, whose interests are, properly enough, not scholastic, a word of explanation may prove a safeguard. |
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http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext06/7plut10.txt
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| | Library System/Howard University |
| | Description: Section of the Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature. | | | Description: One of the hallmark databases in the Gale Group's Literature Resource Center, Contemporary Authors Online offers biographical coverage of more than 100,000 novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. | | | Description: The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. |
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http://www.howard.edu/asp/keywordsearch/resourcesondemand.asp?keyword=English
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| | channel4.com – culture – the novel |
| | Poet TS Eliot and novelist Ernest Hemingway heralded it as a work of genius. | | | In 1917, an attack of glaucoma left him in pain for the rest of his life, and in later years he was troubled by his daughter's mental illness. | | | Although he was born and educated in Dublin, the main theme in his early writing is that of the flight from the constraints of religion, language and nationality of his native Ireland. |
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http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/N/novel/novel_joyce.html
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| | Biblioctopus Catalog 22 |
| | This NY edition, published Feb. 27, 1915, precedes the London edition, published June 3rd, by 3 months but the chronology versus nationality question is more hermetic than not and the arguments I've heard sound like circus clowns ranting about why they hate birthday party clowns. | | | His first book, but more important, the first novel by the first successful American novelist. | | | Fully appreciated in his own time, Thackeray could really write. |
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http://www.biblioctopus.com/catalog22/cat22.html
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| | Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism |
| | "The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women." Includes women writers from antiquity to the present, with an excellent selection of current authors worldwide. | | | "This site offers "annotated references to web pages and gopher files on artists, poets, novelists, musicians, critics, and philosophers who wrote, created, and composed in the first half of the twentieth century." Many authors are included. | | | There are also some general modernism resources listed. |
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http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/litcrit/guide.html
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| | Jane, however, admitted her preference for Thomas Jefferson Hogg in 1827, and also betrayed Mary by spreading malicious tales to their friends about how Mary's "coldness" and "temper" had made Percy unhappy in their last year together. | | | She was to spend the rest of her life as a devoted mother to Percy Florence Shelley and a devoted daughter to Godwin, whom she continued to support emotionally and financially until his death in 1836. | | | In the index to the Anti-Jacobin Review of 1798, for example, "See Mary Wollstonecraft" is the only entry listed under "Prostitution," and the Wollstonecraft listing ends with a cross-reference to "Prostitution." Such was the complex and ambiguous heritage Mary Shelley received from her mother. |
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http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html
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| | It offers searching by author, title, keyword, literary-historical timeline, document type, specific reference source, author ethnicity, author nationality, genre, literary movement/time period and literary theme. | | | 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, | | | When viewing the list of full text journal articles, make sure you select one that is a "critical essay." Many of the journal articles in the database are book reviews or audio reviews; these are not acceptable sources. |
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http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/literatureresourcecenter.html
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| | See also: French language authors, French language poets, French novelists | | | This is a partial list of famous French or French-speaking/writing people | | | Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle -- composer of "La Marseillaise", French National Anthem |
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http://knowallabout.com/l/li/list_of_french_people.html
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| | National Integration Of Italian Return Migration, 1870-1929, The | | | Nationality of Her Own, A : Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship | | | Nationalism In Europe, 1815 To The Present : A Reader |
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http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/Netserv/netlibrary/alltitles/n.html
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| | Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar: Feminist Science Fiction |
| | If you have not chanced to read this book for one of your classes do it! | | | This class is a 400 level interdisciplinary Senior Seminar drawing on women's studies, science, literature, cultural studies, and (to a lesser extent) history. | | | We are a community of readers approaching these works together to understand, to celebrate and |
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http://orion.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/fsfs04syllabus.html
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| | Mail 371 July 18 - 24, 2005 |
| | Iraq did send representatives to Niger to talk. | | | According the the article, Linlithgow is also the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots. | | | I confess the parchment affectations are personal preferences. |
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http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/mail371.html
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| | CONTEXT: Suzanne Jill Levine on Manuel Puig |
| | Whether or not his name or his Argentine nationality is remembered by the public, his prison romance under the stars of Hollywood nostalgia--in which William Hurt as Molina, a gay window dresser, falls in love with Raul Julia as Valentin, a Marxist journalist who looks like Che Guevara--still remains. | | | While collective memory of him is sustained mainly by the film and the play, this fourth novel was, like many literary milestones, only part of a life's work, only part of his vision and impact, certainly on Hispanic culture, beginning in the late sixties when his first two books appeared in Spanish. | | | Puig did not set out to be a novelist, however; his dream, from early childhood, was to make movies. |
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http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no3/levine.html
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| | The Valve - A Literary Organ Nationality, language, religion: Rosen on Roth in the New Yorker |
| | All his life he despised diaspora Judaism (and I think in this way really is quite unlike Joyce). | | | Nationality, language, religion: Rosen on Roth in the New Yorker | | | It’s much easier today to see nationalism as an invented idea, which is for novelists a kind of dead-end (i.e., nationalist novels are unlikely to be good ones). |
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http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/the_thing_about_henry_roth_in_the_new_yorker
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| | This course will study the works of two Canadian novelists, one contemporary and one from the turn of the century. | | | This course will study major works by both novelists, and introduce key concepts and readings in the study of nationality, race and gender as constructed in the novel. | | | The works of these two novelists will provide an opportunity to discuss the characteristics of formal realism as constructed in two distinct historical periods, and so to consider the development and the dominance of realism in Canadian fiction. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/~mdean/585
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| | Francis Warin claimed the Braque painting was seized by men of the Einsatzsab Reichleiters Rosenberg (ERR) in | | | However, in August 1914, when war was declared, all Kahnweiler's belongings were sequestrated by French authorities because of his German nationality. | | | Such list was only made available to the public over a year ago and stirred polemics in the French press. |
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http://www.artcult.com/braque.htm
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| | GN Online: Al Alim, Jaafer among Owais prize winners |
| | He is best known for his works on Arab thought and philosophy. | | | A list of previous winners has been described as a 'Who's who' of the Arab literary world. | | | The prize is named after its founder the late businessman Sultan Al Owais who was a respected poet. |
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http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=103619
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| | Winne.com - Report on Serbia, Land of beauty, encouragement and enterprise |
| | She is among the fist ten female tennis players at the ATP list. | | | However, many Serbian books were published in Roman alphabet during Josip Broz Tito's rule of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. | | | Seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church during the Middle Ages, the Pec Monastery comprises four churches built from the early-thirteenth through the mid-fourteenth century, the largest being that of Holy Apostles. |
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http://www.winne.com/serbia/bf04.html
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| | hypocorisma: a weblog on names |
| | Anyways, one problem that some novelists have while planning is coming up with character names. | | | A collection of name lists by type such as: old fashioned names, popular 50's names, made up names... | | | Currently, I'm compiling a huge list of names including origin, meaning, and other assorted commentary. |
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http://www.hypocorisma.net
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| | The Profile: Mahmoud Darwish, Poet of the Arab world--Ummah.comGeneral |
| | His mother, Houreyyah, was illiterate, but his grandfather taught him to read. | | | He is the Arab world's best-selling poet; his recent recital in a Beirut stadium drew 25,000 people. | | | · Lives And Works, a selection of Guardian profiles of leading novelists, poets and playwrights, is published this month by Atlantic Books. |
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http://www.ummah.net/forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=3684
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| | Oren Zuckerman Portfolio |
| | The world of the thinkers, Novelists, play writers and poets. | | | When a person is selected, the marionette mimics the person's typical motion in a short sequence. | | | For example, using the timeline and selecting 1976, the user learns that Steven Jobs and Stephan Wozniak produce their first computer at that year, and that Noam Chomsky published Reflections on Language. |
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http://web.media.mit.edu/~orenz/makers.html
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| | List of countries Online Research :: Information about List of countries |
| | Somalia (the whole country is presently fragmented with its Politics of Somalia in exile, see also Somaliland) | | | The names of countries in the list are given in English and include both the short official names (e.g. | | | List of cultural and regional genres of music |
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http://in-northcarolina.com/search/Countries_of_the_world.html
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| | Internet Public Library: Search this Site |
| | ALAN actually stands for The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English. | | | "The Women's National Book Association is the only organization in the book world open to women and men in all occupations allied to the publishing industry: publishers, authors, librarians, literary agents, editors, illustrators, designers, educators, critics, booksellers, and those engaged in book production, marketing, finance, subsidiary rights, and personnel. | | | ³The National Writers Union is a trade union for freelancers: tech writers, journalists, book authors, poets, novelists, ghostwriters, corporate writers-professionals in all genres. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/searchresults/detail?words=authors&coll=aon
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