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H. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with the realistic to produce challenging alien perspectiv...
About 247 pages (73,984 words) in 13 products

During his long and varied literary career, H. M. Tomlinson wrote thirty book-length works that, in terms of sheer volume and variety, place him among the most prolific writers of the modern age. His books include collections of essays, li...
About 142 pages (42,662 words) in 14 products

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is widely considered the most important literary supernaturalist of the twentieth century. He is one of the greatest in a line of authors that originated with the Gothic novelists of the eighteenth century and w...
About 400 pages (120,102 words) in 16 products

SOURCE: A review of They Return at Evening. Times Literary Supplement 1364 (22 March 1928): 223. In the following review, Wakefield's first collection of ghost stories, They Return at Evening, is favorably reviewed. Mr. Wakefield in this co...
About 179 pages (53,674 words) in 25 products

SOURCE: Mussari, Mark. “H. C. Branner and the Colors of Consciousness.” Scandinavian Studies 71, no. 1 (spring 1999): 41-66. In the following essay, Mussari studies H. C. Branner's use of pictorial language in his writings as a means to...
About 35 pages (10,605 words) in 1 product

 
The American poet, translator, and novelist Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), generally called H. D., was an imagist whose lyric art conveys intense feelings through sharp images and "free" forms. Hilda Doolittle was born on Sept. 10, 1886, in ...
About 251 pages (75,302 words) in 29 products

 
Few writers have appeared on the American literary scene to such sudden acclaim as the Chinese émigré Ha Jin. His first short-story collection about life in the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Ocean of Words (1996), won the...
About 94 pages (28,092 words) in 7 products

SOURCE: Axters, Stephanus. “Before Ruysbroeck.” In The Spirituality of the Old Low Countries, translated by Donald Attwater, pp. 9-28. London: Blackfriars Publications, 1954. In the following excerpt, Axters sums up Hadewijch's mystical...
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SOURCE: Axters, Stephanus. “Before Ruysbroeck.” In The Spirituality of the Old Low Countries, translated by Donald Attwater, pp. 9-28. London: Blackfriars Publications, 1954. In the following excerpt, Axters sums up Hadewijch's mystical...
About 317 pages (95,024 words) in 14 products

The Roman emperor Hadrian (76-138), or Publius Aelius Hadrianus, reversed the expansionist policies of Rome in a permanent shift to the defensive. Hadrian was born in Rome on Jan. 24, 76. A ward of his uncle, Emperor Trajan, he spent the f...
About 227 pages (67,991 words) in 12 products

 
Shams al-Din Hafiz (ca. 1320-1390) was a great Persian mystical poet who, as a professor of Koranic exegesis, composed some of the most sensitive and lyrical poetry ever produced in the Middle East. Hafiz was born in Shiraz, the capital of...
About 293 pages (87,788 words) in 12 products

SOURCE: Blake, Richard A. “Selective Memory.” America 140, no. 13 (7 April 1979): 286. In the following excerpt, Blake commends Hair's atmosphere of “great good fun,” but cautions against the film's tendency to sanitize historical e...
About 14 pages (4,061 words) in 4 products

Hair, a "tribal-rock musical" (Barnes), captures the attitudes and idealisms of the Hippie movement of the 1960's. Written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music and lyrics by Galt McDermot, Hair illustrates Hippies' repudiation of conv...
About 56 pages (16,882 words) in 26 products

Leon Uris's novels "Exodus" and "Trinity" moved me, captivated me, and kept me up late at night. I expected his latest, "The Haj," to have the same effect, and I was very disappointed that it didn't. The story failed to capture my interest ...
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SOURCE: Wood, James. “Saving Vidia.” New Statesman (1 October 2001): 79-80. In the following review, Wood applauds Half a Life,finding it intelligent and complex. It is a delight, after the spilt “fury” of Salman Rushdie's latest as...
About 40 pages (11,885 words) in 7 products

SOURCE: A review of My Story, by Hall Caine, Vol. 88, No. 2280, 1909, pp. 256-57. In the following review, the critic offers a favorable assessment of Caine's autobiography. It is a curious commentary on the literary life that the one chapt...
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[In Salka Valka] Halldor Laxness has portrayed a world without hope, without gentleness, without even the concept of progress…. In [a] fishing village on the coast of Iceland, the common people live in such misery that the birth of a chil...
About 39 pages (11,616 words) in 11 products

SOURCE: Cumbow, Robert C. “It Was the Bogey Man: Halloween.” In Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter, pp. 47–63. London: Scarecrow, 2000. In the following essay, Cumbow examines Carpenter's innovative cinematography in H...
About 46 pages (13,779 words) in 3 products

A critical assessment of two appropriations/adaptions of Hamlet. Many of Shakespeare's works have been transposed from stage to screen, none so more than Hamlet. Two of the most unique film appropriations of the play are to be found in Ro...
About 3,179 pages (953,642 words) in 252 products

In making Hamlet (in 1947), Olivier was concerned, as he had been with Henry V, about avoiding the static quality of filmed theater. Without sacrificing the integrity of the play, he wanted to give visual fluency to theatrical material. Ham...
About 32 pages (9,704 words) in 6 products

SOURCE: Monroe, Barbara. “Reading Faulknerian Comedy: Humor and Honor in The Hamlet.” Southern Quarterly 26, no. 4 (summer 1988): 33-56. In the following essay, Monroe contends that the characters in The Hamlet employ humor as a way to ...
About 34 pages (10,248 words) in 2 products

Hannibal Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), American author, augmented local-color writing by the new naturalistic techniques that combined realism with a sense of the individual's overwhelming struggle against a hostile environment. In the late ...
About 261 pages (78,157 words) in 23 products

Whatever one's view of [J.R.R. Tolkien's] The Lord of the Rings there can be no doubt that it has done dreadful things to the young imagination. There are simply too many long, level-paced pseudo-epics, three-part sometimes, about these day...
About 6 pages (1,748 words) in 2 products

Devotion and compassion toward one another, a core reason why many relationships these days work out and last a lifetime. Trusting someone is essential and basically the backbone to all relationships. Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a s...
About 23 pages (6,864 words) in 5 products

An oppressive world, a world without freedom, without choice and without opinion. In the totalitarian regime that governs the society of Gilead, women are not worthy of anything - they don't even have an identity. Both the women and the me...
About 643 pages (192,739 words) in 58 products

Hanif Kureishi is not only a leading contemporary novelist but also a prominent playwright, essayist, and screenwriter. He has also directed his own screenplay for the movie London Kills Me (1991). His script for the director Stephen Frear...
About 146 pages (43,710 words) in 26 products

A Jewish refugee from Germany, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) analyzed major issues of the 20th century and produced a brilliant and original political philosophy. Hannah Arendt was born in 1906 in Hanover, Germany, the only child of middle-cla...
About 167 pages (49,977 words) in 14 products

The life and literary achievement of Hannah More are extraordinarily varied: she was a noted conversationalist and poet in the intellectual circles of Elizabeth Montagu and Samuel Johnson; successful dramatist and intimate friend of David ...
About 495 pages (148,609 words) in 20 products

Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette is probably the finest of the sentimental novels of the early national period. Psychologically astute, wellplotted, and carefully written, the novel portrays sensitively the life and death of Elizabeth ...
About 295 pages (88,463 words) in 11 products

SOURCE: McDonald, Neil. “Dr. Lecter, I Presume.” Quadrant 45, no. 4 (April 2001): 59-62. In the following review, McDonald compares the novel Hannibal to Scott's film adaptation, noting that the film achieves a moral and dramatic comple...
About 59 pages (17,646 words) in 4 products

[Kenttäläinen käy Talossa ("Kenttäläinen Visits a Farm") and Minä, Olli ja Orvokki ("I, Olli and Orvokki")] are well-written, personal works. Kenttäläinen käy talossa contains several studies of lonely or misunderstood persons…. ...
About 12 pages (3,695 words) in 4 products

The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) enjoyed fame in his own lifetime as a novelist, dramatist, and poet, but his fairy tales are his great contribution to world literature. Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 180...
About 503 pages (151,027 words) in 26 products

Hans Küng (born 1928), a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian, questioned church dogma, emphasized the need for reform within the church, and sought reunion with other Christian groups. His liberal views led to his censorship by the Vatica...
About 144 pages (43,125 words) in 29 products

SOURCE: “The Making of a Poet: H. M. Enzensberger,” in German Life & Letters, Vol. XXI, No. 1, October 1967, pp. 27-44. In the following excerpt, Bridgewater finds that Enzensberger's first three verse collections evince the influence o...
About 110 pages (32,960 words) in 12 products

. Although chiefly remembered today as the genial shoemaker-poet and leader of Nuremberg's Meistersinger Guild in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1862; translated as The Master-Singers of Nuremberg, 1892), Hans Sachs ...
About 234 pages (70,168 words) in 13 products

Vaihinger, Hans(1852–1933) Hans Vaihinger, the German philosopher of the "as if," was born in a devout home near Tübingen. Although he developed unorthodox religious views at an early age, he attended the Theolo...
About 81 pages (24,234 words) in 9 products

["Happy Birthday, Wanda June"] is an attempt at a satire on the return of Odysseus. Mr. Vonnegut's Odysseus is a paunchy, bearded fellow named Ryan who has been missing for eight years, held captive by Indians in South America. He is a bull...
About 5 pages (1,364 words) in 3 products

For ten years, from 1974 to 1984, a fictional image of suburban Milwaukee brought the 1950s back to America through ABC's Happy Days. The picture of the world that was painted by this television comedy shaped a whole generation�...
About 32 pages (9,448 words) in 7 products

SOURCE: Thomas, Jacqueline. “Happy Days: Beckett's Rescript of Lady Chatterley's Lover.” Modern Drama 41, no. 4 (winter 1998): 623-34. In the following essay, Thomas studies Happy Days for evidence of a subtext influenced by D. H. Lawre...
About 39 pages (11,783 words) in 2 products

SOURCE: “A Romance of the Masses,” in Times Literary Supplement, June 24, 1994, p. 25. In the following mixed review, Davis argues that The Harafish's distinctly Middle Eastern qualities may make it difficult for Western readers to unde...
About 33 pages (9,845 words) in 7 products

[The] three motifs introduced during the early moments of [A Hard Day's Night]—running (flight), antagonism towards the establishment (order), and subsequent mayhem (misrule)—are extended by variation throughout the remainder of the act...
About 13 pages (3,741 words) in 3 products

Hard Nose the Highway is psychologically complex, musically somewhat uneven and lyrically excellent. Its surface pleasures are a little less than those of St. Dominic's Preview and a great deal less than those of Tupelo Honey, while its lyr...
About 7 pages (2,175 words) in 3 products

Solutions to Singularity and Industrialization In an attempt to propel the quality and way of life forward by means of efficiency and advancement of technology, industrialization destroys many intrinsic characteristics of society and indiv...
About 669 pages (200,766 words) in 42 products

Hard-boiled detective fiction is often defined in terms of what it is not. It is not set in an English village; the solution is not reached by analyzing clues. To paraphrase Raymond Chandler, one of its most famous writers, it is not about...
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Hardcore must be the most perversely priggish movie in the history of the American cinema. It's impossible to think of another film that approaches its bizarrely knotted interweaving of prurience and dismay, lurid excitement and icy disgust...
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[The film "The Harder They Come"] is a mess, but the music is redeeming, and Jimmy Cliff's joy in music, along with the whole culture's, stays with you. (The title song goes on playing in your head.) (p. 121) Pauline Kael, "The Riddles of P...
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Described by fellow author J. G. Ballard as "an aggressive and restless extrovert who conducts his life at a shout and his fiction at a scream," Harlan Ellison is a writer who actively resists being labeled. Though he has written or edited...
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     Between 1910 and 1920, in a movement known as the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of African Americans uprooted from their homes in the South and moved North to the big cities in search of jobs. They left the Sout...
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SOURCE: "Mailer's Main Event," in The Hudson Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 149-57. In the following review, Pritchard offers favorable assessment of Harlot's Ghost, praising the admirable ambition of the work despite Mailer's ch...
About 15 pages (4,392 words) in 2 products

In 1973 a small book was published under the title, The Anxiety of Influence. It was to mark Harold Bloom's dramatic entrance into literary theory and was to mark as well the theoretical discourse of our century. Since the publication of t...
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