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The story takes place in an unnamed school classroom in the United States, in the aftermath of a war between the US and an unnamed country. It is implied that America has been defeated and occupied. The story opens with the previous teacher leaving the classroom, having been removed from her position and replaced with an agent of the foreign power.
Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930. [ 1 ]
The Class is Erich Segal's 6th novel, published in 1985. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The class of the title is the Harvard University Class of 1958. The book is about five fictional members of this class: Andrew Eliot, Jason Gilbert, Theodore Lambros, Daniel Rossi, and George Keller.
Fussell argues that social class in the United States is more complex in structure than simply three (upper, middle, and lower) classes.According to Bruce Weber, writing for the New York Times, Fussell divided American society into nine strata — from the idle rich, which he called "the top out-of-sight," to the institutionalized and imprisoned, which he labeled "the bottom out-of-sight."
Class A, published as The Dealer in the United States, [1] and as The Mission for 5000 prints, [1] is the second book in the Robert Muchamore's novel series CHERUB.It continues the story of teenager James Adams and his fellow CHERUB agents as they try to bring down a drug gang led by Keith Moore.
Oath of Fealty is a 1981 novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published originally by Phantasia Press, then by Timescape Books, [1] with numerous reprints. Set in the near future, it involves an arcology , a large inhabited structure, called Todos Santos, which rises above a crime-ridden Los Angeles, California , but has ...
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852.The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanly, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.
Every site on Earth has a unique absolute location, which can be identified with a reference grid (such as latitude and longitude). Maps and globes can be used to find location and can also be used to convey other types of geographical information. Map projections are used to represent the three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional map.