Category: Literature

  • Major Duncan Heyward

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    Major Duncan Heyward, also known as Generous Hand or Open Palm, is a bright, brave, noble, wealthy, former colonist from the south, but terribly ridiculous, a major in the British army. Duncan, along with Natty Bamppo and the last of the Mohicans, fights against the French and their Mingo allies. He was ordered to accompany…

  • Heart of Darkness Summary

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    The story starts on the board of British ship “Nellie”, anchored on the river Thames. A sailor named Mallow tells his fellows about his past travels. One of these was his journey to South Africa. Mallow was hired by “The Company” to work as its agent and to be involved in ivory trade. The task…

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Study Guide

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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Study Guide Author: Harriet Jacobs Original title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself Characters: Linda Brent, Dr. Flint , Aunt Martha , Mr. Sands , Benny , Ellen , Phillip Published: November 9th 2001 by Dover Publications (first published February 24th 1861) Setting: North Carolina, 1813 (United…

  • Animal Farm Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major’s speech without listening to a word of what he was saying. Animal Farm 23 At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of…

  • Beowulf Summary

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    Once upon a time there was a king named Hrodgar from the Skilding dynasty who ruled over Denmark. He was undefeatable in wars with neighbors and also a wise and fortunate ruler who accumulated great wealth. One day Hrodgar decided to build a magnificent hall for him and his warriors to feast there. He ordered…

  • Jasper Ramsay

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    Jasper Ramsay is a small son; he is very joyful and enjoys his life to the fullest. He likes to play a lot, and sometimes his games disturb other people. His hobby is shooting birds, and it makes Mrs., Ramsay, his mother, very nervous. The writer, who made this character wanted to depict the simplicity,…

  • The Ambassadors Summary

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    The story starts with the main character, Lambert Strether, an American from Woollett, Massachusetts, travelling to England. He arrives in Chester and goes to the hotel he has a meeting arranged with his old and faithful friend named Waymarsh. He asks if Waymarsh is already here, but learns from the hotel desk that he haven’t…

  • Col. Edmund Munro

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    Col. Edmund Munro is a colonel of the British army, commander of Fort William Henry. The father of Alice and Cora, and the head of a doomed attempt to resist the siege led by Moncalmus, commander of French troops during the French and Indian War. And since the Colonel did not allow the frontier guards…

  • Willie Eaton

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    Willie Eaton is the minor character in this book. He appears in the episode with dance, and he wasn’t and will not appear in the novel again. Truly saying his role in the book isn’t important at all. Who will be interested in such a small hero without big importance and role? Nevertheless, the author…

  • Frankenstein Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    CREATED by an eighteen-year-old girl during the freakishly cold, rainy summer of 1816 while on holiday in Switzerland with her married lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and two other writers, the poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein would become the foundational work for two important new genres of literature—horror and science fiction. Frankenstein…