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This historical novel features a coming-of-age story, with the title taken from the poem "Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae", written by Ernest Dowson. [ 2 ] Gone with the Wind was popular with American readers from the outset and was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937.
Mrs Dalloway. Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. [ 1][ 2] It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. The working title of Mrs Dalloway was The Hours. The novel originated from two short stories, "Mrs ...
Ayn Rand. Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; [ c] February 2 [ O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( / aɪn / EYEN ), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. [ 3] She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.
Nineteen Eighty-Four(also published as 1984) is a dystopian noveland cautionary taleby English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburgas Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentationof ...
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...
Female Advocate or, an Answer to a Late Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex, Sarah Fyge Egerton (1686) [14] A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, Mary Astell (1694) An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex.
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...
Followed by. Ham on Rye. Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye, Women is centered on Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does, however, feature the same constant carousel ...