When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Growth of the Soil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_the_Soil

    Growth of the Soil portrays the protagonist (Isak) and his family as awed by modernity, yet at times, they come into conflict with it. The novel contains two sections titled Book One and Book Two. The first book focuses almost solely on the story of Isak and his family and the second book starts off by following the plight of Axel and ends ...

  3. Satires (Juvenal) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satires_(Juvenal)

    Juvenal is credited with sixteen poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire. The genre is defined by a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter. [1] The sixth and tenth satires are some of the most renowned works in the collection. Book I: Satires 1–5; Book II: Satire 6; Book III ...

  4. Mist (novel) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mist_(novel)

    Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.

  5. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparkNotes

    Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.

  6. First Alcibiades - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Alcibiades

    (October 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy ...

  7. Hagakure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagakure

    Prohibited book of Nabeshima, Hagakure The Analects (abridged). 1939 edition. Cover of The Book of the Samurai. Hagakure (Kyūjitai: 葉隱; Shinjitai: 葉隠; meaning Hidden by the Leaves or Hidden Leaves), [1] or Hagakure Kikigaki (葉隠聞書), is a practical and spiritual guide for a warrior, drawn from a collection of commentaries by the clerk Yamamoto Tsunetomo, former retainer to ...

  8. Satantango (novel) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satantango_(novel)

    Satantango (Hungarian: Sátántangó, tr. "Satan's Tango") is a 1985 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. [1] It is Krasznahorkai's debut novel. [2] It was adapted into a widely acclaimed seven-hour film, Sátántangó (1994), directed by Béla Tarr. The English translation by George Szirtes won the Best Translated Book Award ...

  9. Buile Shuibhne - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buile_Shuibhne

    Many poets have invoked Suibhne (most often under the English version of his name, Sweeney) – most notably in Seamus Heaney's translation of the work into English, which he entitled Sweeney Astray. The author Flann O'Brien incorporated much of the story of Buile Shuibhne into his comic novel At Swim-Two-Birds , whose title is the English ...