• Middle England is a 2018 novel by Jonathan Coe. It is the third novel in a trilogy, following The Rotters’ Club (2001) and The Closed Circle (2004). The...
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  • You Are Here is a 2024 romance novel by British writer David Nicholls. The novel centers on two middle-aged protagonists, who unexpectedly find themselves...
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    It became one of Scott's best-known and most influential novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, with colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws...
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  • from England's economic prosperity. These works were directed at the middle class to help create sympathy and promote change. The social novel is also...
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    of "Middle America" (though Kovic's hometown, Massapequa, is physically located in Long Island). The same applies to the episode of Ayn Rand's novel The...
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  • Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by American writer Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle...
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    Common name: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus ( MERS-CoV) Synonym: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus Other names: novel coronavirus...
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    romance, and heartbreak. The novel is set in South West England, London, and Sussex, probably between 1792 and 1797. The novel, which sold out its first...
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  • One Day is a novel by David Nicholls, published in 2009. A couple spend the night together on 15 July 1988, knowing they must go their separate ways the...
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    A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The English word to describe such a work derives from...
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  • James Clavell’s novel Shōgun, published in 1975, is based on events and figures of Japan in 1600, as the Azuchi–Momoyama period neared its end and the...
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  • Yellowface is a 2023 novel written by R. F. Kuang. The book was described as a satire of racial diversity in the publishing industry as well as a metafiction...
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    In the history of England, the High Middle Ages spanned the period from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the death of King John, considered by some historians...
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  • the king and ultimately to other major figures determining England's course in the Early Middle Ages. Prior to writing Hild, Griffith began researching Hild...
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    protagonist from southern England to show and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city. The novel is set in the fictional...
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    Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine from January...
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    developing the legitimacy of vernacular Middle English at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were still French and Latin. The invention...
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  • A Pale View of Hills (category 1982 British novels)
    and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor. A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman...
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  • also directed the historical epic Rob Roy. The novel begins in the fictional city of Kingsbridge, England in the year 1327. Four children – Merthin, his...
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  • comfortable middle-class life. W. S. Gilbert satirised these works in his 1871 comic opera A Sensation Novel. For Anthony Trollope, however, the best novels should...
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  • poor housing until about the middle of the 19th century. At the time of the formation of Great Britain in 1707, England and Scotland had similar class-based...
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    England reveal a nostalgia for aspects of an earlier society that are missing in modern times. The concept of Merry England originated in the Middle Ages...
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  • 476–1453). Middle Ages or middle age may also refer to: Middle age, a stage of life Middle Age: A Romance, a 2001 novel by Joyce Carol Oates The Middle Ages...
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    several novels were being adapted for the screen and set in New England, including The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables. The New England region...
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    established the independence of the Church of England, and called for the dissolution of the monasteries. The novel is a re-envisioning of historical and literary...
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    Crusoe. The rise of the novel as an important literary genre is generally associated with the growth of the middle class in England. Other major 18th-century...
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  • recording is "a record of life in the Middle Ages, which is what William the Conqueror's survey turned out to be." The novel is the first in a series about Oxford...
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  • Circle picked up the characters' lives at the very end of the 1990s. Middle England opens in 2010 and addresses issues such as Brexit and climate change...
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  • man who juggles sexual relationships with two middle-class women in a northern town in post-war England. Joe Lampton, demobilised at the end of the Second...
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  • metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers...
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