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3 days ago · Several tales in the One Thousand and One Nights use the self-fulfilling prophecy, as a special form of literary prolepsis, to foreshadow what is going to happen. This literary device dates back to the story of Krishna in ancient Sanskrit literature, and Oedipus or the death of Heracles in the plays of Sophocles.
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
2 days ago · Writers in Beijing have long been a major influence on the country's literary landscape, and now a new generation is adding its own chapter to the capital's ongoing story, Wang Ru reports.
May 1, 2024 · Here are 90+ good books with city in the title, including both fiction and non-fiction. It's safe to say that most of these titles aren''t books about cities, but the core commonality between these books is that they have the word city in the title.
4 days ago · His novels address socialist, anarchist and Irish nationalist issues. Ulysses has been read as a novel critiquing the effect of British colonialism on the Irish people.
2 days ago · The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven portal fantasy novels by British author C. S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published between 1950 and 1956, the series is set in the fictional realm of Narnia, a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts and talking animals.
3 days ago · “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.
5 days ago · I've been reading Maupin's Tales of the City series for more than twenty years and I love returning to the beloved residents of Barbary Lane with every release. While those new releases have come further and further apart over the last several years, Maupin did gift us with Mona of the Manor in March of this year.
