Who's a good classic literary author? |
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 Mar 6 2007, 09:36 PM
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I have to write a research paper on a classic literary author, such as maya angelou, emily dickinson, langston hughes, mark twain, etc etc
A lot of the more popular ones have already been chosen and we can't do one htat osmeone else has already chosen So what have you read that you liked, who is is by and are there a lot of information on him/her ? |
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| *salcha4u* |
Mar 6 2007, 09:38 PM
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JANE AUSTEN, DUH!
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Mar 6 2007, 09:44 PM
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I don't know if he's a classic, technically. I'm sure he is. But Aldous Huxley. Author of Brave New World and Island. I'm using him with Zamyatin and George Orwell for a ten page paper.
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Mar 6 2007, 10:36 PM
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QUOTE(salcha4u @ Mar 6 2007, 9:38 PM)  JANE AUSTEN, DUH! Jane Austen was already taken well this one girl in my class wanted it but the teacher was like someone from another class reserved it a couple weeks ago (before the assignment was assigned).. what a weirdo |
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| *WHIMSICAL 0NE* |
Mar 6 2007, 11:01 PM
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Edgar Allen Poe? That's an interesting person right there, lol.
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Mar 7 2007, 06:24 PM
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 The one man Voltron Group: Member Posts: 711 Joined: Dec 2006 Member No: 491,519 |
I am pretty partial to Jules Verne since I have always like how he seemed to keep a vivid imagination during all of his life, allowing him to create the most awesome stories (to me xD).
I think it would be a good choice, since not only can you talk about the literary aspect of his work, but also you can include references to how some of the things he mentioned in his books have been later on developed into real inventions, etc... . That would possibly make writing the paper easier, since it could allow room for more creative writing on your part. |
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Mar 8 2007, 05:32 PM
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 ˇLa Reina del Mundo! Group: Member Posts: 205 Joined: May 2006 Member No: 415,882 |
Well... to go into the classic horrors:
Bram Stoker (Dracula), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, Kidnapped!) And there's Nathaniel Hawthorne (the Scarlet Letter), The Bronte Sisters (Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights), Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray), Charles Dickens (Olivier Twist, Great Expectations, Bleak House) (how could one forget him?!) and uh... oh yeah! H.G. Wells! (The Time Machine, The Invisible Man). |
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Mar 8 2007, 08:49 PM
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-Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)
-Dante Alighieri (Divine Comedy -William Shakespeare -Geoffrey Chaucer (Canterbury Tales) -Stephen Crane (The Open Boat, The Red Badge of Courage) -Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea) -Herman Melville (Moby-Dick) -Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible) -Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Ernest) -Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) -Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote) I will edit if I can think of more. |
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Mar 8 2007, 11:37 PM
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T.S. Elliot, Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury, E.B. White, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde....
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