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21) John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck has been a favorite among readers of all kinds for decades. A versatile, restless writer who constantly experimented with new forms and genres, he seems to offer something for everyone-whether rapturous descriptions of the California landscape, fierce denunciations of social injustices, simple morality tales, or just picaresque adventure stories.
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Slaughterhouse-Five is an odd sort of book, both an antiwar novel and science fiction, a dark comedy as well as a tragedy. Published at the height of the Vietnam War protests, it seized the imaginations of thousands of young people and made Vonnegut into an overnight sensation.
25) Stephen King
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This biography acquaints readers with the essential details of King's life and his body of works.
30) Dystopia
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To be dystopian, a work needs to foreground the oppressive society in which it is set, using that setting as an opportunity to comment in a critical way on some other society, typically that of the author and/or the audience. In other worlds, the bleak dystopian world should encourage the reader or viewer to think critically about it, then to transfer this critical thinking to his or her own world. This volume in the Critical Insights series presents...
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"In this volume, introductory essays situate the novel in its historical and cultural context and also survey its critical reception, while subsequent chapters explore Bradbury's creation and reworking of the story, issues such as memory, love and morality, domesticity, intellectual property and censorship, and the appeal of Fahrenheit 451 in other media. Rounding out the volume is a bibliography of other important critical sources for readers seeking...
34) Philip Roth
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"Philip Roth's many honors testify to his importance. He won awards for many of his individual novels, including two National Book Awards (for 1959's Goodbye, Columbus and 1995's Sabbath's Theater), two National Book Critics Circle Awards (for The Counterlife, and 1991's Patrimony), three PEN/Faulkner awards (for 1993's Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and 2006's Everyman), and a Pulitzer Prize (for American Pastoral). He also won awards for the...
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