Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne's novels From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of ...
the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was ...
Classic Novels to Read on Long Journeys / Transit Where the Crawdads Sing One of those all-time favorites for an individual on the move isDelia Owen’s Where the Crawdads Sing, about a ‘Marsh Girl’ who becomes entangled in a possible murder. ...
By Jennifer Kendall, Contributing Writer See More About:classic children's books classic young adult ooksSummer is a great time to introduce teens to some classic novels and prepare them for the books they'll be studying during high school. Give your teen a head start by checking out some ...
These 10 classic novels for teens are often taught in American high schools, and they're ones you'll want to share with your teenager. Just before they enter high school is a great time to introduce teens to some classic novels and prepare them for the books they may be studying in scho...
“the great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy.” It is also a glittering modernist masterpiece, and one of the first novels of the 20th century to ...
60.Mary is interested in Mark Twain,especially his novels which arc full of humors.She really want to know some other writers who were born in the same country as Mark Twain was.待选课程的学生 课程名称56.Lucy A.American & British Classics57.Sally B.World literature58.Lily C.Creative ...
Written in the late 1990s, Pullman’s novels are a fantasy fiction collection, which follows the adventures of Lyra, a young woman who has been brought up in ‘Jordan College.’ During her time here, we learn that her mysterious college is undertaking lots of research into a new particle ...
41 Lord of the Fliesby William Golding(1954) It's been nice to have a couple of thin novels to fly through back to back pretty quickly for a change. And it may be no coincidence that Deliverance and Lord of the Flies follow one right after the other on the list.more... Spring 2012...
A Wrinkle in Timeis the first book in Madeleine L'Engle'sTime Quintetof novels. It is classified as a science fiction/fantasy book because it involves supernatural creatures, time travel, mind control, telepathic communication, and travel into outerspace through a 'tesseract.' ...