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  2. List of years in literature - Wikipedia

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    1920 in literature – F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise; D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love; Sinclair Lewis's Main Street; Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle; Yevgeny Zamyatin's We; Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Karel Capek's R.U.R.; Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair ...

  3. Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    The poet calls on Anglo-Saxon readers to recognize the imperfect aspects of their supposed Christian lifestyles. In other words, the poet is referencing their "Anglo-Saxon Heathenism". [159] In terms of the characters of the epic itself, Robinson argues that readers are "impressed" by the courageous acts of Beowulf and the speeches of Hrothgar.

  4. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Two strangers meet at a wedding in Palm Springs and get stuck in a time loop. 2021 Dikkiloona: Karthik Yogi: Indian film about a man who tries to change his past by travelling back in time. 2021 The Map of Tiny Perfect Things: Lev Grossman: Two teenagers create routines and perfect moments while stuck in a time loop together. 2021 Hi, Mom: Jia Ling

  5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Wikipedia

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures.

  6. Mistborn - Wikipedia

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    The original trilogy published by Sanderson was the first in what he used to call a "trilogy of trilogies." Sanderson planned to publish multiple trilogies all set on the fictional planet Scadrial but in different eras: the second trilogy was to be set in an urban setting, featuring modern technology, and the third trilogy was to be a science fiction series, set in the far future. [3]

  7. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    This article cites its sources but its page reference ranges are too broad or incorrect. Please help in adding a more precise page range. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Survey of eight prominent scripts (left to right, top to bottom): Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Maya script, Devanagari, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Braille Part of ...

  8. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered writing systems, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages. It also does not include ...

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    For example, a name beginning with two letters representing a single sound is treated as a single two-character initial in some European languages (e.g., Th. for Theophilus), and hyphenated given names are sometimes abbreviated with the hyphen (J.-P. for Jean-Pierre). If reliable sources consistently use such a form for a particular person, use ...