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“Sonrisas” is a poem appropriately included in Pat Mora’s collection titled Borders, published in 1986. As a Mexican-American woman born in El Paso, Mora has created verse that has always been charged with thematic associations of what it is like...

Published recently in 2011, Silver Sparrow is a novel written by Tayari Jones, a novelist and professor who won the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction in 2003 with her work, Leaving Atlanta. The plot of Silver Sparrow involves a father’...

Aleph is novel written by Paulo Coelho in 2011. It was published in Portuguese and distributed by HarperCollins publishing company. A main focus of the novel is based on the theme spirituality and it taken on a more personal, autobiographical...

The Winner Stands Alone is the name given to the thirteen novel published by the Portuguese author, Paulo Coelho in the year 2008. Paulo Coelho is best known for his novel The Alchemist, the novel that made him famous and the novel that made him...

Thousand Cranes is a novel that was published in 1952 which was written by Yasunari Kawabata, a Japanese author. Kawabata wrote novels and short stories, and those prose works gained him international fame, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Black Like Me has impacted millions of readers in the United States, around the world, and over the decades with its profound exploration of humanity and identity under the pressure of racial prejudice. The sincere and scathing narrative...

"The Devil and Daniel Webster" is American myth; it remains the foundational contribution by an American artist to the Faust myth. Stephen Vincent Benet originally published the short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1936. The next year it...

"By the Waters of Babylon" is a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet in 1937. The story is narrated by a man called John who is the son of a priest, and the story is set in the future, after the destruction of industrial civilization. The...

Published in 1975, The Message in The Bottle is a collection of essays on semiotics written by Walker Percy. Throughout this novel, Percy describes what he sees as the end of the modern age and attempts to create a middle-ground between the two...

Though initially begun for a specific purpose, the letter that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while incarcerated in Birmingham ultimately addressed universal questions of freedom and inequality. It is because of its ambitious reach that “Letter...

Bastard Out of Carolina came out in 1992. It is Dorothy Allison's first novel and remains her most widely successful work to date. Although Allison was an established author within the gay and lesbian literary community, she gained widespread...

“Monday or Tuesday” is a short story collection that was written by one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf, between 1917-1921. This collection was published by The Hogarth Press, London, and it included eight...

The Garden of Eden was the first big project pursued by Ernest Hemingway after a drought that lasted through the early '40s. It's believed that his personal life frustrated his work. He had a new wife, he had developing health issues surrounding...

The Adventure of the Yellow Face is an 1893 short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featuring the characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. The story was initially written as a commission for Strand Magazine, with original...

Written by Richard Bradford, Red Sky At Morning is a World War II fiction novel published in 1968. This novel focuses around a older teenage boy named Josh Arnold.

This coming of age novel begins with Arnold’s father leaving to WWII, and leaving...

In Persuasion Nation is a short story collection that is full of 12 stories by George Saunders. The stories included were published in different forms, all that which include The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and McSweeney's. The stories have...

Founding Brothers, by Joseph J. Ellis, was published in 2000 by Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2001.

Through a series of six defining events from U.S. history, the author deftly explores the...

The Collector was John Fowles's first published novel, released in 1963. Fowles described this book as a commentary on class in England, specifically on class issues such as prosperity, pretension, and the contrasts between the working class and...

Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South is often considered one of, if not the best, of her works, as well as a significant piece of Victorian literature. It features a strong female protagonist, a mature love story, and relevant social and political...

D. H. Lawrence worked on “The Prussian Officer” between May and June 1913 under the title “Honor and Arms.” That was his preferred title all the way through a revision process that lasted into October of that year. The story would be published...

D. H. Lawrence wrote “Odour of Chrysanthemums” in 1909 and submitted to the English Review where the magazine’s renowned editor Ford Madox Hueffer (better known to most as renowned writer Ford Madox Ford) judged the story’s worth as one with the...

“Second Best” is a short story written by D. H. Lawrence in August 1911 and initially published in English Review in February the following the year. It reappeared as part of Lawrence’s collection The Prussian Soldier and Other Stories in 1914....

Daughters of the Vicar is a book written by D.H. Lawrence and published in 2004. The book revolves mainly around the story of the two eldest daughters of Mr Lindley, who is a vicar. Mr Lindley and his family are very poor but they are a proud...

"The Nose" (Japanese title: "Hana" was first published in January 1916 in the Tokyo Imperial University student magazine Shinshicho. It was later published in various other magazines and anthologies and was translated into English by multiple...