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Taichi Yamada Sixth Novel Translation: I Haven’t Dreamed of Flying for a While Faber & Faber 2008

In: Asian Literature

By: Susan Morris

Helena Maria Viramontes' The Moths: Women's Lives in Chicano Culture

In: Latin American Literature

By: Cicely A. Richard

Review: The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Milan Kunder's Novel Defies All Genres

In: European Literature

By: Christina Donahue

Canone Inverso: Paolo Maurensig Masterfully Weaves Music into Fiction

In: European Literature

By: Feature Writer Laura L. Johnson

On Jean Rhys: A summary of the novelist's life, work. and thematic concerns

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Aline Duriaud

Another Side to the Story: Revisionist Versions of Well Known Books and Characters

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Sara Porter

Junot Diaz Wins Pulitzer Prize: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: A Dominican American Novel

In: Latin American Literature

By: Christine Welter

Book Review: The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper: The Story of Death and Life on Palm Island, Australia

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Angela Carter on the Marquis De Sade: A Feminist Interpretation of the Work of Sade

In: European Literature

By: Sabrina Louise Webb

Review: Cumandá by Juan León Mera: A Classic of Latin American Literature Translated by Noe E. Vaca

In: Latin American Literature

By: Barbara Stewart

The Bereavement of Turnus: A Tragic Ending To Virgil's Tragic Tale

In: European Literature

By: Jessica Gleason

The Hector / Achilles Dichotomy: Who was the True Hero in Homer's Illiad?

In: European Literature

By: Jessica Gleason

The Fat Man in History: Peter Carey's First Book of Short Stories

In: Australian Literature

By: Leah Cave

Dogs of Nothingness: The First Acclaimed Book by Emanuele Trevi

In: European Literature

By: Maria Teresa Sette

Review: Tuvalu by Andrew O'Connor: Winner of the 2005 Australian Vogel Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Amanda Kendle

10 Short Stories for Students: Stories That Students Will Love, and Appreciate

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Erica Sweeney

War & Peace: Volume II, Part IV: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

War and Peace: Volume II, Part III: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

The Biblical Myth of Demon Lilith: How the Actual First Woman to be Created by God Escaped the Fall

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Steve Williams

War and Peace: Volume II, Part II: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Ulysses: A Review: A Modernist Classic

In: European Literature

By: Martyn Conterio

Book Review: Misconceptions: Sophie Townsend’s Australian Novel About Relationships

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India: The Traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947

In: Asian Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Life and Times of Dante Alighieri: Historical Context of the Divine Comedy

In: European Literature

By: Kelley Wadson

Changes: A Love Story: An Insightful Novel by Ama Ata Aidoo About African Feminist Issues

In: African Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Devil on the Cross: Ngugi’s Damning Portrait of Post-Colonial Kenya

In: African Literature

By: Kelley Wadson

Review: The Time We Have Taken: Steven Carroll’s Novel Set in the Australian Suburbs

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Book Review: Love Without Hope: Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted Novel by Rodney Hall

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Michio Takeyama's Harp of Burma: Religion in the Post-World War II Japanese Novel

In: Asian Literature

By: Simon August Thalmann

Life and Work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o: King of Kenyan Literature

In: African Literature

By: Kelley Wadson

War and Peace: Volume II, Part I: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

The Namesake: A Critically-Acclaimed Novel By Jhumpa Lahiri

In: Asian Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Book Review: Landscape of Farewell: Alex Miller’s Novel Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Malinche: A Historical Novel: Highly Acclaimed Author Laura Esquivel Takes on Controversial Figure

In: Latin American Literature

By: Christine Welter

Music Theme in Orpheus Lost: The role of Music in Janette Turner Hospital’s 2007 Novel

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

War and Peace: Volume I, Part III: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Book Review: Orpheus Lost: Miles Franklin Award Longlisted Novel by Janette Turner Hospital

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

The Diving Pool, by Yoko Ogawa: Three Novellas Translated by Stephen Snyder

In: Asian Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Book Review: Sorry by Gail Jones: Australian Novel Longlisted for 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Review: The Widow and Her Hero: Longlist Selected Novel for the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year: 2007 Novel by Nobel Prize Winner J.M. Coetzee

In: Australian Literature

By: Mary Hiers

The Library of Babel: Imagining an Infinite Library Decades Before the Internet

In: Latin American Literature

By: Robert O'Connor

War and Peace: Volume I, Part II: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Book Review: The Fern Tattoo: 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee by David Brooks

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

The Joys of Motherhood: A Novel By Buchi Emecheta

In: African Literature

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

The Empire and the Poets: Rudyard Kipling's India and Rabindranath Tagore

In: Asian Literature

By: Robert O'Connor

Miles Franklin Award Longlist 2008: Longlist Selections for Australia’s Most Significant Literary Award

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Miles Franklin Literary Award: Australian Book Award for Novels and Plays

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

War and Peace: Volume I, Part I: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy's Novel of Gender and Caste Constuction in India

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Jessica Workman

Knots: A Novel by Nuruddin Farah: Insight into Grief and Civil War by Somalia's First Novelist

In: African Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Sebastian Barry: A Long Long Way: Novel of conflicting Loyalties of Irish soldiers of World War I

In: European Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Book by Book: Michael Dirda Reflects on the Meaning of Books to our Lives

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Adair Jones

China's Nobel Laureate: Gao Xingjian's Works Are Born of a Repressive Regime

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Adair Jones

Rwanda: Land of a Thousand Hills: An African memoir by Rosamond Halsey Carr and Ann Howard Halsey

In: African Literature

By: Mary Hiers

The Neustadt Prize for Literature: A Prestigious Award for International Writers

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Seamus Heaney:The Burial at Thebes: Translation of Sophocles' Antigone by 1995 Nobel Laureate

In: European Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee: 2005 Novel From South African Nobel Laureate in Fiction

In: Australian Literature

By: Mary Hiers

Anna Karenina: Themes: Leo Tolstoy Writes about Social Conflict, his Times, and Happiness

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Book Review: The Long Walk by Kate Greenwood: An Australian Junior Fiction Novel set during the Great Depression

In: Australian Literature

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Anna Karenina: Plot: Leo Tolstoy on Love, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

The Nobel Prize in Literature: Alfred Nobel's Legacy is the World's Most Prestigious Literary Award

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Leo Tolstoy Books and Biography: Life and Works of "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" Russian Author

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

The Power of One Themes: Bryce Courtenay’s Novel on Youth in Apartheid South Africa

In: Australian Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Bryce Courtenay and Peekay: Author and Protagonist of The Power of One

In: Australian Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

The Power of One Plot: Bryce Courtenay’s Novel on Youth in Apartheid South Africa

In: Australian Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: Lisa See's Novel Examines Women's Relationship in 19th Century China

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Teresa Shaw

Finding George Orwell in Burma: Emma Larkin: Myanmar’s History of Oppression Traced in Literature

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Chinese Poetry: Wild Grass: Lu Hsun's Collection of 20 Prose Poems Written in the 1920s

In: Asian Literature

By: George Conrad Gould

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami: Mental Illness, the Beatles, and Sexual Discovery in 1960's Tokyo

In: Asian Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Life in the Tomb: WWI Literature: Stratis Myrivilis' Classic Novel of the Greek Trenches

In: European Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson: A First Novel about Friendship and the Power of Storytelling

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Orhan Pamuk: Istanbul's Huzun: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner's Vision of Turkey

In: Middle Eastern Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

One Night at the Call Center-Chetan Bhagat: An Indian Tech Support Center Sets the Stage for a Night of Change

In: World Literatures (general)

By: Teresa Shaw

Uno Chiyo: Japanese Author of Confessions of Love

In: Asian Literature

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Maupassant's Diamond Necklace: What Is Happiness Worth?

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Kafka's Heroes: Basic Characteristics

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Blindness, by José Saramago: Navigating Chaos

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: A Review of an Anthology Written by Women of the Iranian Diaspora

In: Middle Eastern Literature

By: Mona Lisa Safai

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament for a Vanishing World

In: African Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Turkish Author Erendiz Atasu: The Other Side of the Mountain, Feminist Lit in Modern Turkey

In: Middle Eastern Literature

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Nina Berberova: Author and Critic

In: European Literature

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedy: Hamlet doesn't just avenge murder, he contemplates it.

In: European Literature

By: Jennifer Alpeche

The Trial, by Franz Kafka: Understanding Joseph K.’s Failed Case

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Anna and the King of Siam: Leonowens' account, Margaret Landon's book, and movie adaptations

In: Asian Literature

By: Maria Jaijet D. Jasmin

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka: Interpreting the Transformation of Gregor Samsa and his Family

In: European Literature

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

The Bible as Magical Realism: Old Testament connections to a South American Genre

In: Latin American Literature

By: Barbara Steinhauser

Italian Writer I.U. Tarchetti: Author of Fantastic Tales and Passion

In: European Literature

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Magical Realism Tactics: Defamiliarization Writing Techniques Applied

In: Latin American Literature

By: Barbara Steinhauser

Ode on a Grecian Urn: Explanation for Students!

In: European Literature

By: Preeti Raghunath

Explanation of 'The Tyger': Made Easy For Students

In: European Literature

By: Preeti Raghunath

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Honoured: Cartagena hosts Nobel Prize Winner and World Literati

In: Latin American Literature

By: Richard McColl

Cantar de Mío Cid, the legend: The story and legend of a Middle Ages nobleman, first mediaeval text

In: European Literature

By: Angeles Fernández

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