Scott Fitzgerald intended one should look to the original text.
#10 SENTENCE FOLKTALE EXAMPLES FULL#
This novel got the full Hollywood treatment in 2013 courtesy of Baz Luhrmann and Leonardo di Caprio, but to really experience the story as F. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. It is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modernist literature. Written by Irish author James Joyce, Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904, and draws many parallels with Homer’s poem The Odyssey (Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus) through its characters and events. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
First published as a complete novel in 1883, it had been serialised in children’s magazine Young Folks some two years earlier.
Probably one of the most famous (and definitely one of the longest!) opening lines in children’s literature, Treasure Island is a story that can’t fail to capture children’s imaginations with its tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) Originally printed in serialised form in Dickens’ weekly periodical All the Year Round, it cemented the author as a vital social commentator of the times he was living through.Ĥ. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry in the years leading up to revolution and draws many parallels with life in London during the same time. With well over 200 million copies sold, the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities really do rank as amongst the most famous in the history of English literature. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (1859) With realistic descriptions of whale hunting and detailed accounts of life at sea, the novel touches on subjects that are timeless religion, good and evil and social status. Widely considered one of the Great American Novels, its opening line really is one of the most recognisable in the whole of Western literature. This epic sea story of Captain Ahab’s voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale, has delighted children and adults alike for over one and a half century’s.
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