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Book the Thirteenth: The End is the thirteenth and final novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The book was released on Friday, October 13, 2006. The book was released on Friday, October 13, 2006.
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.
She then deserted Olive in the middle of a black lake in a painting. Afterwards she released her grandfather only to have Olive and Morton thwart her plans. She becomes trapped in a painting in the end of the first novel, The Shadows. In the second novel, Spellbound, she is released from her painting by an entranced Olive. She tries to get rid ...
The novel was planned as a four-volume work, but Sterne died in 1768 with only the first two volumes published; Yorick never makes it to Italy. The book follows the genre conventions of a travel narrative , with a playful and fragmented writing style.
Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital (German: Das Kapital.Kritik der politischen Ökonomie Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals) is the first of three treatises that make up Das Kapital, a critique of political economy by the German philosopher and economist Karl Marx.
Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794; retitled The Adventures of Caleb Williams; or Things as They Are in 1831, [1] and often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government.
Fantomina's ending, neither true to the "persecuted maiden" genre nor true to the marriages of Restoration comedies, is ambiguous. Fantomina purposefully establishes and iterates serial subjectivity, or the practice of someone who reinvent themselves in oder to subvert cultural norms, and this allows Haywood to comment on these norms. [ 10 ]
An autobiographical work, "Youth" represents one of the few stories in Conrad's oeuvre that offer an unalloyed "happy" ending. [7] Author Albert J. Guerard offers this appraisal of the story: The reason for the story's serenity, almost unique in Conrad's work, is simple enough: it is the only personal story in which the would-be initiate learns ...