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    The Scholars (Chinese: 儒林外史; pinyin: Rúlín Wàishǐ), also translated as The Unofficial History of the Scholars, is a Chinese novel written by Wu Jingzi...
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  • Issues The Scholars (poem), by W. B. Yeats, 1914/15 The Scholars (novel), by Wu Jingzi, 1750 Scholars (album), by Buke and Gase, 2019 Scholars, a 1950s...
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    Classic Novels in Chinese opera Classic Chinese Novels (traditional Chinese: 古典小說; simplified Chinese: 古典小说; pinyin: gǔdiǎn xiǎoshuō) are the best-known...
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  • surname. All names are verified using the Rhodes Scholar Database. This is not an exhaustive list of all Rhode Scholars. A. G. L. Shaw, Behan, Sir John Clifford...
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  • Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant...
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  • of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West conventionally attributed to Wu Cheng'en of the Ming dynasty. Waley's remains one of the most-read...
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    at Goldman Sachs and, since the 1980s, McKinsey has had numerous Rhodes Scholars as partners. Similarly, of Rhodes Scholars who became attorneys, about...
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  • James Clavell’s 1975 novel Shōgun is based on events and figures from 1600 Japan when the Azuchi–Momoyama period was ending and the Edo period was about...
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  • Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that revolves around the central character Binodini and her relationships with three individuals. It explores the extramarital...
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  • 2001 novel by American writer Percival Everett. It was originally published by the University Press of New England. The novel reacts against the dominant...
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    The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize...
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    aside from short stories and pulp dime novels, though modern scholars debate this. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors...
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  • Staes, the conference consisted of two days of papers and discussions about the novel by numerous scholars. Notable speakers included Wallace scholars Marshall...
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    about the hierarchy in the town cause scholars to compare the novel to Catcher in the Rye and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Despite challenging the town's...
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  • Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks. It is Faulks's fourth novel. The plot follows two main characters...
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    The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives...
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    pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula...
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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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  • Name is a 2007 coming-of-age novel written by Italian-American writer André Aciman. Set in the 1980s, the novel centers on the sudden and powerful romance...
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  • Many scholars have reflected on the tension between holiness and worldliness in the novel. The strict Pentecostal religion of the Temple of the Fire Baptized...
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  • best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which...
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  • The River, also known as The Return[1] and Hatchet: The Return,[2] is a 1991 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen. It is the second installment in the Hatchet...
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  • The I-novel (私小説, Shishōsetsu, Watakushi Shōsetsu) is a literary genre in Japanese literature used to describe a type of confessional literature where...
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  • The Book of Life is a 2014 fantasy novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness, the third book in the All Souls trilogy. As the sequel to the 2012 bestseller...
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  • Imperial Chinese period, a scholar was expected to play the guqin. Guqin was explored as an art-form as well as a science, and scholars strove to both play it...
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  • from the Hindu epic the Mahabharata. The novel has multiple narrators, and poses several questions on the nature of morality. Scholars have analysed its...
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    The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for 'rogue' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but...
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    The Beetle (or The Beetle: A Mystery) is an 1897 fin de siècle horror novel by British writer Richard Marsh, in which a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian...
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    novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Many regard the work as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel...
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  • thought by most scholars to have been aware of and to some extent influenced by the Greek novels. No ancient Greek term is known for the genre of prose...
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