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8. Author: J.r.r. Tolkien. Series: The Lord of the Rings. Number of books:Total (6). The Lord of the Rings (3) The Hobbit (single novel) The Silmarillion (single novel) The Unfinished Tales (single novel). Rating: 10/10. Status: All complete. What can be said about the long dead high king of fantasy, it can be said that…
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Exploration of Human Emotions in Great Expectations
As with all Charles Dickens’ major works, it is the characters that actually make the book “Great Expectations.” Dickens preferred to have the story progress through the characters, instead of having the characters become just pieces of an overriding story. What great characters they are: the constantly incongruous but essentially human Pip; the mysterious but…
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
Another one from my vault of classic novels: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. The story is set in nineteenth century England, and tells the tale of Pip, a young orphan brought un ‘by hand’ by his much elder sister whose kind husband later takes him as his apprentice as blacksmith. Through a series of more than…
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield is a young peasant who lives in 19th-century south England, and whose naive hopes are those of every young woman of her social class. However, when her father discovers that they are in fact the last direct descendants of the old and noble D’Urbervilles family, her life is turned upside down. Tess is…