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The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters' lives. Except for the first, each ...
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.
The Years (French: Les Années) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux.It has been described as a "hybrid" memoir, spanning the period of 1941 to 2006. [1] [2] [3] Ernaux's English publisher, Seven Stories Press, described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective."
"Such, Such Were the Joys" is a long autobiographical essay by the English writer George Orwell.. In the piece, Orwell describes his experiences between the ages of eight and thirteen, in the years before and during World War I (from September 1911 to December 1916), while a pupil at a preparatory school: St Cyprian's, in the seaside town of Eastbourne, in Sussex.
Old School is an American semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by Tobias Wolff that was first partially published in The New Yorker as a short story ahead of novelization in 2003. It acts a memoir for a fictional unnamed writer, who recalls his senior year at a New England preparatory school in 1960–1961.
[1] The first English edition published by Thornton Butterworth in October 1930 sold 11,200 copies, and the American edition published by Charles Scribner's Sons sold 6,600. Scribner's titled the book by the name of its UK subtitle, A Roving Commission. The book includes an observation made upon the death of his nanny. He wrote, "She had been ...
The book became a perennial best-seller, read by many students as they prepare for their first year in law school. According to a 2007 story in The Wall Street Journal, One L continued to sell 30,000 copies per year, [5] many to first-year law students and law school applicants. It challenged the Socratic method and made people think critically ...
The Twins at St Clare's is a children's novel by Enid Blyton set in an English girls' boarding school. [1] [2] It is the first of the original six novels in the St. Clare's series of school stories. First published in 1941, it tells the story of twin sisters Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan in their first term at a new school. [3] [4] [5] They meet ...