• Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Wuthering Heights 18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Obsessive emotional grip and haunting narrative. • Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Jane Eyre 19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The improving tale of Becky Sharp. • Robert McCrum's 100 best ...
In th e early nineteenth century ther e was a ris e in literacy an d everyone, from th e ordinary workman to Queen Victori a herself, r e a d Dickens's novels.His popularity was in part du e to his abil ity to captur e th e imagination of his audience by creating unforgettabl ...
Husain, of Indian descent, and one of the most awarded and honored Indian artists of the twentieth century, produced narrative paintings that were often a mixture of humor, as well as a critique regarding the social or historical issues of India. Unfortunately, some of Husain’s paintings were...
. He wrote over twenty novels and many of his characters are as familiar to today's readers as they were to readers in Dickens's day. In the early nineteenth century there was a rise in literacy and everyone, from the ordinary workman to Queen Victoria herself, read Dickens's novels....
In the latter half of the 20th century, the world was introduced to the formidable talent of Toni Morrison, whose novels laid bare the complexities of race, identity, and power in the U.S. With works like Beloved and The Bluest Eye, Morrison challenged readers to confront the ...
From Victor Hugo's classic French novel of the nineteenth century to Tom Hooper's award winning blockbuster, Les Misérables has undergone one of the most successful transitions from book to stage to screen. In this new documentary, the scintillating journey of Hugo's universal story is traced ...
He wrote many plays, novels and short stories about people's lives, and was named"the People's Artist". Teahouse is one of his most famous plays. He wrote it in 1957. The play has three acts and shows the lives of common people in Chin a from the end of the nineteenth century to...
But, truth of the matter is, the nineteenth-century novel and Renaissance theatre were both, in their heydays, considered low art. Shakespeare’s theatres were located in destitute and desperate areas of town. And the novel, in Austen’s own day, wasn’t a classic. Instead, it was the ...
common people in Chin a from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the 5. twentieth century. It tells us the story of Wang Lif a and the customers of his teahouse in Beijing. It6. describes the changes in Chinese society over fifty years. Lao She was born in Beijing ...
根据Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway 可知the novels Mrs Dalloway 是她最著名的作品,C项错误。根据 regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century可知她被认为是20世纪最重要的现代主义文学的一个重要人物。故D错误。因此选A。2.推理判断题。根据...