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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]
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 poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as "the Eden where she dwelt" in Tennyson's poem ...
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is not a novel, according to the staider definitions; it possesses no character who rises above the level of a cipher and no plot worth speaking of. It is sharp, funny and brilliant without suggesting that this sharpness, humour and brilliance is sufficient to carry through its purpose to any ...
The poems were derivative, and were maliciously reviewed by the critics who were offended by some of the depravities in store for moralistic readers. The book was withdrawn by Moore. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] He was forced to return to Ireland in 1880 to raise £3,000 to pay debts incurred on the family estate, owing to his tenants refusing to pay their ...
"The Road Not Taken" is one of Frost's most popular works. Yet, it is a frequently misunderstood poem, [8] often read simply as a poem that champions the idea of "following your own path". Actually, it expresses some irony regarding such an idea. [9] [10] A 2015 critique in the Paris Review by David Orr described the misunderstanding this way: [8]
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. [1] It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
[10] That story was adapted into a film of the same name from The American Collection directed by Deborah M. Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones, and released in 2000. [11] Cinematographer Ernest Holzman won an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini ...