… It is a novel based on the life of a mature teenage girl called Anna Peacock. The story is told by the main character in the first person. It is a family drama and as it is told in the first person. I was able to get a great idea of what Anna feels…

… in York, England Died: September 28, 1973 in Vienna, Austria English-born American poet, critic, essayist, dramatist, editor, translator, and librettist W. H. Auden is one of the finest poets of the twentieth century. His poetry centers on…

… ourselves for salvation from ourselves; in the absolutely right and necessary rebellion was only a speck of room for worrying about personal ethics and our own egotism." In this quote, Miller is describing a state in which society looks beyond what…

… stories regarded as still having relevance to modern society. One of the ways this is possible is through the dramatic techniques used. This is evident from one of his greatest works, Macbeth. In Shakespeare's Macbeth ambition conspires with unholy…

… horse, and challenged the law and its enforcers. Today, Ned Kelly is Australia's greatest mythological character. Icon of the Australian imagination. But who was the man behind the mask? Was he a merciless killer who unforgivably chose to take up arms…

… a Hard Place", by Anthony Godby Johnson, a then fourteen year old boy. This is one of the best school - related books I have read yet. It is a tale of a boy's life from being beaten and sexually abused to finding a new loving family to take care of him,…

… questionable. Some say it is non-fiction, others historical fiction, and yet others complete fiction. I believe that this book is non-fiction, though with a few indiscretions on account of the fact that he wrote the book ten years after he experienced…

… Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855. Hughes went…

… as a philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom and choice. As a result of the diversity of positions associated with this term it is impossible to define precisely. There are, however, basic themes common in existentia…

… it's time. Not many plays beforehand had involved the death of a king wrongfully, as it was believed that the King was chosen by God Himself, and that to kill a King is a mortal sin. Shakespeare, however, managed to fit the murder of a king, the benefits…