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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Middle Passage or The Middle Passage may also refer to: "Middle Passage" (poem), a 1945 poem by Robert Hayden Middle Passage (novel), a 1990 book by Charles...
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The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. The Passage debuted at #3...
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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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Passage is a science fiction novel by Connie Willis, published in 2001. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 2002, was shortlisted for the Nebula...
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The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited is a 1962 book-length essay and travelogue by V. S. Naipaul. It is his first book-length work of non-fiction...
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Passage is a fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2008. It is the third in the tetralogy The Sharing Knife. Passage is the...
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Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November...
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and goodbye. Nicholls recalls that as a student, he read a passage in Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles in which Tess realises that as...
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Moria is introduced in Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, and is a major scene of action in The Lord of the Rings. In much of Middle-earth's fictional history, Moria...
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his homeland by French slave traders, and endures the terrors of the Middle Passage and being sold into slavery. Hwesuhunu is brought to the island of Saint...
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love in urban middle-class, pre-independence India and the emotional conflicts of enthusiastic, ambitious and idealistic youth. In the novels foreword, the...
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the narrator. The novel was generally well received and was nominated for several "first book" awards. In 2074, after the passage of the Sustainable...
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Ackerman and written by Deena Goldstone, it is based on the 1988 novel Safe Passage by Ellyn Bache. The film centers on a large family that reconvenes...
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Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in...
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The Odessa File (category 1972 British novels)
prosperous, in Hamburg. Miller's attention is especially drawn to one diary passage in which Tauber describes having seen Roschmann shoot a German Army captain...
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James S. A. Corey (section Novels)
the first science fiction novel in the series The Expanse. Leviathan Wakes was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award...
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A House for Mr Biswas (category 1961 British novels)
A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mohun Biswas...
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The Rotters' Club is a 2001 novel by British author Jonathan Coe. It is set in Birmingham during the 1970s, and inspired by the author's experiences at...
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E. M. Forster (section Novels)
English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous...
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Elle Woods (category Characters in American novels of the 21st century)
Elle Woods is the protagonist of Amanda Brown's 2001 novel Legally Blonde and the 2001 film of the same name as well as the 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde...
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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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embellish a passage of text or add credibility to an opinion. Historians would also invent and compose speeches for didactic purposes. Novels can, on the...
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The Shelters of Stone (category 2002 American novels)
Stone is a historical fiction novel by Jean M. Auel published in April 2002. It is the sequel to The Plains of Passage – published 12 years earlier –...
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Jonathan Coe (section Novels)
marriage breaks up." Coe's 2019 book Middle England won the European Book Prize and also won the Costa Book Award in the Novel category. Both What a Carve Up...
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Passing (1929) is a novel by American author Nella Larsen. Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on...
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The Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel is one of the annual Locus Awards presented by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus. Awards presented...
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Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with The Gospel According...
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African-American experience in his work. His most famous book is The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (1995). Feelings was the recipient of numerous...
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Mating (1991) is a novel by American author Norman Rush. It is a first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana...
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