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    An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life. The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly...
    20 KB (2,335 words) - 12:10, 28 March 2024
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    Buddenbrooks (German: [ˈbʊdn̩ˌbʁoːks] ) is a 1901 novel by Thomas Mann, chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course...
    22 KB (3,161 words) - 20:42, 4 April 2024
  • The Crack in Space is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. In the United Kingdom, it has been published under the title of the...
    6 KB (736 words) - 09:26, 20 April 2024
  • A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険, Hitsuji o meguru bōken) (literally An Adventure Concerning Sheep) is the third novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. First...
    27 KB (3,536 words) - 14:22, 20 October 2023
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    Seven-league boots are an element in European folklore. The boots allow the person wearing them to take strides of seven leagues per step, resulting in...
    6 KB (604 words) - 07:05, 30 April 2024
  • On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E. M. Forster. The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American...
    12 KB (1,317 words) - 11:08, 28 March 2024
  • Dragons of the Highlord Skies is a fantasy novel by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, based on the Dragonlance fictional campaign setting. It is the second...
    11 KB (1,328 words) - 06:09, 25 October 2023
  • The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory is a 1983 collection of feminist essays by philosopher Marilyn Frye. Some of these essays, developed...
    5 KB (518 words) - 15:34, 11 October 2023
  • Seven Days in New Crete, also known as Watch the North Wind Rise, is a seminal future-utopian speculative fiction novel by Robert Graves, first published...
    7 KB (889 words) - 18:45, 2 July 2022
  • The Great Hydration is a science fiction novel by English writer Barrington J. Bayley. The book, his last one, was written in 1998 and first published...
    2 KB (120 words) - 07:48, 9 October 2022
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    Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas was a major cartographic work (general atlas) published in several German and foreign editions 1881–1937. It was named after...
    6 KB (459 words) - 09:15, 22 October 2022
  • ttfn is a young adult novel by Lauren Myracle. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in 2005, it is the sequel to ttyl, and is also written entirely in the...
    7 KB (927 words) - 22:28, 26 September 2023
  • An Infinite Summer is the second collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Christopher Priest and the first of his books to collect...
    11 KB (1,394 words) - 06:56, 14 March 2024
  • Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants! is young adult novel (a romance aimed at girls aged 13–15), by British author Louise Rennison. It is the fourth book in the...
    3 KB (243 words) - 02:24, 30 August 2023
  • A sympathetic character is a fictional character in a story whom the writer expects the reader to identify with and care about, if not admire. Protagonists...
    1 KB (92 words) - 01:58, 30 January 2023
  • La Dormition des amants is a Belgian novel written by Jacqueline Harpman. It was first published through Éditions Grasset in 2002. It won the Prix triennal...
    2 KB (198 words) - 05:28, 27 October 2023
  • Step By Wicked Step is a children's novel by Anne Fine, first published in 1995. In the novel five unrelated children talk about their difficulties with...
    4 KB (405 words) - 06:48, 11 July 2023
  • The Lincoln Conspiracy is a book by David W. Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr. promoting certain conspiracy theories concerning the 1865 assassination...
    6 KB (595 words) - 10:53, 29 April 2024
  • This list of syndicated columnists comprises columnists whose recurring columns are published in multiple periodical publications (e.g., newspapers and...
    3 KB (292 words) - 16:26, 19 October 2023
  • Sam Barone is an American historical novelist with novels about early Antiquity. He is known for writing the "Eskkar" series, beginning with the story...
    5 KB (647 words) - 21:50, 15 April 2024
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