Download or read book Finny written by Justin Kramon and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finny Short just can't seem to relate to her family, and, when she is sent to a bizarre boarding school, she must contend with a seductive New York heiress, an unpredictable dorm mother and a narcoleptic piano teacher, in a coming-of-age novel that spans 20 years and explores loyalty among family and friends. A first novel. Original.

Download or read book A Separate Peace written by John Knowles and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PBS's The Great American Read named it one of America's best-loved novels. A Separate Peace has been a bestseller in the United States for nearly thirty years, and it is ageless in its depiction of youth during a time when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. A Separate Peace is a horrific and brilliant fable about the dark side of adolescence set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II. Gene is an introverted, lonely intellectual. Phineas is a reckless athlete who is attractive and taunts others. Like the war itself, what happens between the two friends one summer robs these guys and their world of their innocence.

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Download or read book CliffsNotes on Knowles A Separate Peace written by Regina Higgins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-03-03 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Knowles' A Separate Peace, you explore John Knowles greatest work, which is one of the most popular post-war novels about adolescence. Here, you meet Gene, who faces the challenge of finding his own individuality in a conformist world—the kind of individuality he's envious of in his friend, the free-spirited Finny. This study guide carefully walks you through every step of Gene's journey by providing summaries and critical analyses of each chapter of the novel. You'll also explore the life and background of the author, John Knowles, and gain insight into how he came to write A Separate Peace. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays on innocence and the uneasy friendship between Gene and Finny A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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Download or read book A Separate Peace written by John Knowles and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Knowles' beloved classic has been a bestseller for more than 30 years and is one of the most moving and accurate novels about the trials and confusions of adolescence ever written. Set at an elite boarding school for boys during World War II, A Separate Peace is the story of friendship and treachery, and how a tragic accident involving two young men forever tarnishes their innocence.

Download or read book A Separate Peace written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the characters, plot and writing of A separate peace by John Knowles. Includes critical essays on the novel and a brief biography of the author.

Download or read book Over the Rainbow written by Michelle Ann Abate and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature

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Download or read book Scavenger Hunt A Finny Aletter Mystery Book 1 written by Yvonne Montgomery and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denver stockbroker, Finny Aletter, dreams of quitting her cutthroat job to restore historic houses, but the murder of her boss—and ex-lover—Elliot Fulton keeps her in the world of scavengers. When a prized manuscript that once belonged to Elliot surfaces, Finny tops the list of possible killers. Now, Finny must find Elliot's killer by tracing the manuscript's origin and stay one step ahead of Lieutenant Chris Barelli, the cynical homicide detective working the case, if he is to see her as more than a sexy suspect. REVIEWS: "...a quick and likable amateur sleuth—a Nancy Drew with an MBA and a sex life." ~Publishers Weekly "...fast-paced, engrossing mystery." ~The Midwest Book Review THE FINNY ALETTER MYSTERIES, in order: Scavenger Hunt Obstacle Course

Download or read book John Knowles s A Separate Peace written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays analyzing Knowles's classic work, including a chronology of his works and life.

Download or read book War in John Knowles s A Separate Peace written by Dedria Bryfonski and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling volume explores the complexities of adolescent friendship in John Knowles's A Separate Place. Essays discuss the life of John Knowles, the role of personal experience in fiction, how the novel explores the roots of war, as well as contemporary perspectives on how war in Afghanistan is increasing bullying among children, and how sports bring joy despite the realities of war.

Download or read book Melancholia and Maturation written by Eric L. Tribunella and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Coming of age” in children’s fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The Outsiders, a narrative of psychological pain defies expectations of childhood as a time of innocence and play. In this provocative new book, Eric L. Tribunella explores why trauma, especially the loss of a loved object, occurs in some of the most popular and critically acclaimed twentieth-century American fiction for children. Tribunella draws on queer theory and feminist revisions of Freud’s notion of melancholia, which is described as a fundamental response to loss, arguing that the low-grade symptoms of melancholia are in fact what characterize the mature, sober, and responsible American adult. Melancholia and Maturation looks at how this effect is achieved in a society that purports to protect youngsters from every possible source of danger, thus requiring melancholia to be induced artificially. Each of the book’s five chapters focuses on a different kind of lost object sacrificed so as to propel the child toward a distinctively gendered, sexual, ethical, and national adulthood—from same-sex friends to the companionship of boy-and-his-dog stories, from the lost ideals of historical fiction about the American Revolution to the children killed or traumatized in Holocaust novels. The author examines a wide spectrum of works—including Jack London’s dog tales, the contemporary “realistic” novels of S. E. Hinton, and Newbery Medal winners like Johnny Tremain and Bridge to Terabithia. Tribunella raises fundamental questions about the value of children’s literature as a whole and provides context for understanding why certain books become required reading for youth. Eric L. Tribunella is assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His articles have been published in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Children’s Literature in Education, The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature, and Children’s Literature.

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