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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Ivanhoe (redirect from Ivanhoe (novel))
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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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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England, England is a satirical postmodern novel by Julian Barnes, published and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1998. While researchers have 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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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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MERS-related coronavirus (redirect from Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus)
Common name: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus ( MERS-CoV) Synonym: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus Other names: novel coronavirus...
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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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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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Sense and Sensibility (redirect from Sense and Sensibility (novel))
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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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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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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Wolf Hall (redirect from Wolf Hall (novel))
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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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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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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Yellowface is a 2023 satirical novel written by R. F. Kuang. The book was described as a satire of racial diversity in the publishing industry as well...
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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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Trilby is a sensation novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine from...
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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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Social class in the United Kingdom (redirect from Middle middle class)
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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English literature (section Prose, including the novel)
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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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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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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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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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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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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James Clavell’s Shōgun (1975) is a historical novel chronicling the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868)...
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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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distribution, Young England attempted sporadically to proselytise to the lower classes. However, the few tracts, the poetry, and the novels that embodied the...
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