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Amerika, (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing") also known as Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared), [1] Amerika: The Missing Person [2] and Lost in America, [3] is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 [4] and published posthumously in 1927.
[2] In 1986, Cadillac Desert was a finalist for both the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award (BABRA). In 1999, a Modern Library panel of authors and critics ranked it 61st on a list of the 100 most notable English-language works of nonfiction of the 20th century.
Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum, 1, 1-3 Like De Catilinae coniuratione, the Bellum Jugurthinum opens with a proem that is outside the historical events narrated in the work, but which highlights the author's ideology regarding human nature: indeed, the human being consists of body and soul, but only the solid possession of virtue is a guarantee of eternal glory. Man must therefore exercise the ...
[2] NPR said, "Disappearing Earth comes closer in spirit to great American literature than most of the fiction set within U.S. borders." [1] The book was named one of the top ten books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review. [5]
The English hotelier, crimper and convicted murderer who had just completed a 13-year prison sentence at the Oregon State Penitentiary, and afterward wrote a book about the conditions there, left Salem on a trip to California after his book was published, and never returned.
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, is a 2010 book by science reporter Sam Kean. The book was first published in hardback on July 12, 2010, through Little, Brown and Company and was released in paperback on June 6, 2011, through Little, Brown and ...
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Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.It was his debut novel.He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, [3] it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters.