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SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
Year Award Category Result Ref. 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction — Won [9] 2017 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature: Adult Fiction Won [10] Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award: Fiction Shortlisted [11] National Book Award: Fiction: Shortlisted [12] 2018 Aspen Words Literary Prize — Longlisted [13]
Apple: Skin to the Core is a Junior Library Guild book [2] and was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist [3] and Shelf Awareness. [4]Kirkus Reviews called the book "[a] rare and special read," [5] while School Library Journal called it "bittersweet but ultimately inspiring."
In New Zealand, Year 11 is the eleventh full year of compulsory education (5-year-olds usually start their first year in Year 0 until the new calendar year). Students entering Year Eleven are usually aged fifteen between 14.5 and 16, [1] but there is no minimum age. Year 11 pupils are educated in Secondary schools or in Area schools. [2]
In a 1962 interview with Peter Orr, Sylvia Plath specifically cited Lowell's Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing at that time (and which her husband would publish posthumously as Ariel a few years later), stating, "I've been very excited by what I feel is the new breakthrough that came with, say ...
Olio is a book of poetry written by Tyehimba Jess that was released in 2016. [1] The book is split into 16 sections, 14 of which are poems with the introduction section and extras and acknowledgments acting as the beginning and ending sections, and illustrated by Jessica Lynne Brown. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [2]
The story was set there about 20 years later. The Slaughter Yard (Spanish El matadero, title often imprecisely translated as The Slaughterhouse, is a short story by the Argentine poet and essayist Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851). It was the first Argentine work of prose fiction. It is one of the most studied texts in Latin American literature.
Idyll XI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. [1] Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared in other works of literature such as Homer's Odyssey, and Theocritus' Idyll VI. Idyll XI is written in the Doric dialect of ancient Greek. In that dialect, the Cyclops' name is "Polyphamos."