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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began[1]) is a 2011 book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction. [2][3] Greenblatt tells the story of how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century papal emissary and ...
H. G. Wells is a member of a fellowship of vampire hunters set in the year 1888 in the novel Modern Marvels - Viktoriana (2013) written by Wayne Reinagel. The fellowship includes Mary Shelley , Edgar Allan Poe , Jules Verne , Bram Stoker , Arthur Conan Doyle , Nikola Tesla , Harry Houdini and H. Rider Haggard .
Shakespeare's The Tempest (1610–11) contains a prototype for the "mad scientist story". Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627), an incomplete utopian novel. Margaret Cavendish's The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World (1666), a novel that describes another world (with different stars in the sky) that can be reached via the North ...
William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3][4][5] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
A novel is a long, fictional narrative. The novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style. The development of the prose novel at this time was encouraged by innovations in printing, and the introduction of cheap paper in the 15th century. Several characteristics of a novel might include:
A modern-day boy switches places with a Shakespearean actor who needs to be cured by modern medicine so he can return to his own time and help Shakespeare to greater success on the stage. 1999 Timeline: Michael Crichton: Modern historians become stuck in the Middle Ages. 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: J. K. Rowling
Ulysses. (novel) First edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, published by Paris-Shakespeare, 1922. The colour of the cover was meant to match the blue of the Greek flag. [1][2] Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire ...
978-0-575-07007-3. OCLC. 72148537. Preceded by. No Present Like Time. The Modern World (published as Dangerous Offspring in the US) is a 2007 fantasy / science fiction novel by the British author Steph Swainston and is a sequel to The Year of Our War (2004) and No Present Like Time (2005).