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    3 The Hound of the Baskervilles is a mystery book solving and putting the pieces together. All characters are mysterious in their own ways‚ which kept the reader’s interst of predicting who would be the murderer. The story’s isolated setting and detective made one of the best mystery novels of all

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    Fiction in Henry James`s “Paste” Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. American Modernism 4 3. Henry James (1843-1916) 5 4. Paste 8 5. Fiction in Henry James 10 6. Paste analysis 12 6. Conclusion 14 7. Bibliography 15 1. Introduction In my term paper I will primarily discuss Henry James and his short story Paste. Firstly‚ I will focus on the time he wrote the story and than I will describe his life and his three major writing phrases. Next‚ I will go on with giving the most important

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    Fiction There are many different types of fiction. Many people confuse these different types of fiction and classify fiction books into incorrect groups. To help better understand fiction they would have to know what types of fiction there are and what they’re like. These types of fiction include realistic fiction‚ science fiction‚ and historical fiction. Realistic fiction refers to stories that might really happen‚ stories set in a particular time and that happen to a particular people. 

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    write using a sort of general template for that genre or they can develop the novel with a personal priority in mind. The historical fiction novel‚ Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison is written outside of the conventions of the genre‚ although it is‚ yet a well written novel. In the novel Beloved‚ the author‚ Toni Morrison‚ deviates from the conventions of historical fiction as she narrates the plot through the perspective of different characters with an objective of allowing the reader to experience the plot

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    Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe the father of the detective genre wrote a multitude of stories with ironic twists and turns the three I have chosen to write about are The Cask of Amontilado‚The Tell Tale Heart‚ and The Masque of The Red Death. Each of these has specific points of irony and other more subtle parts. The Cask of Amontilado is of course about a man who murders another by convincing him he has a rare wine and convincing his victim that they are good friends and he should trust him only

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    Science fiction is a genre that is based on “imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes” that can challenge and disrupt traditional perspectives of morality and behaviour. Each science fiction text explores but one of the numerous possibilities of the speculative and extrapolative ideas‚ with the author’s own views being placed throughout the text both intentionally and unintentionally. The genre concerns itself with the understanding of both

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    health‚ so I rarely do it‚ only when I’m really bored or don’t want to do anything else. Another of my hobby is playing computer games. The one I like most is lines 98. Ocassionally‚ I borrow comics to read. Among all the comics that I have read‚ Detective Conan is the one that I read over and over again. I spend most of my free time indoors‚ but sometimes‚ I go out with my friends. We visit some famous places in Ha Noi‚ such as Ho Guom lake‚ Thu Le zoo‚ The temple of literature. At weekend‚ we visit

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    Detective Eliza Graham quickly read over the Police Report and proceeded to interrogate the first suspect – Jonathon Miller. He was an old‚ pudgy man with friendly eyes and a large‚ distinguishing nose. She could hardly see how this could be the man responsible for murder‚ but looks can be deceiving. ‘So‚’ the man said a little too cheerfully for Eliza’s liking. ‘Would you be able to tell me what all this—’ he waved a hand to the closed file Eliza was holding‚ ‘—is about? I’m afraid I have an important

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    Edgar Allen Poe’s: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story‚ "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"‚ a classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin‚ a poor but well-read young man. As they become close friends‚ they live together in seclusion‚ departing only briefly each evening to take introspective strolls along the dark Paris streets. Soon both the reader and the narrator begin to see Dupin’s

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    Holmes Character essay The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes‚ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ is a book‚ composed of the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson‚ which introduces various crimes to be solved by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr.Watson.Throughout the stories we read‚ “A Scandal in Bohemia”‚ “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League”‚“The Man with a Twisted Lip”‚ “The Musgrave ritual” and “The Final Problem” depicts Sherlock Holmes’s existence and his perspectives

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