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Through the Eyes of Anne: Revisiting the Girl from Green Gables

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Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery

      Anne is an orphan girl who found for herself a home in Green Gables and in the hearts of the people of Avonlea.  For a girl who has lived most of her young life in an orphanage, she considers Avonlea a paradise and a haven for her unbridled thoughts.  Though thin and frail, she has got a big mouth and a sharp wit that compensated for a childhood characterized by desertion, poverty and the unmet need to identify with a family of her own.  Always kept company by her unfettered imaginations inspired by her charming sentimentality, she manages to survive the difficulties that

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A world gone with the wind

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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

I  was in fourth-year high school when I got hold of a copy of Gone with the Wind. I barely knew anything about the book except that there was a series playing on TV with the same title. What I remembered, though, was the infamous line uttered by the dashing Rhett Butler, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

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The Grand Inquisitor by jonas_01

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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With the growing agitating report from people who said to have been much offended by my website, so I've decided today, just for today, to be nice and write only about wholesome literature.

Silo

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My Brother, My Executioner
Francisco Sionil Jose

I. The Poster

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Described by The New York Times as the “first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a fascinating story of the vibrant Buendia family in a little South American town of Macondo, whom Jose Arcadio Buendia, the patriarch of the legendary clan, along with his minions discovered accidentally in one of their expeditions.

A Review on Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate"

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Like Water For Chocolate
Laura Esquivel

 

A BOOK REVIEW ON LAURA ESQUIVEL’S
“LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE”

by Jaycee Lukban

The Characters and Their Significations in the Society

The diverse characters in the novel “Like Water For Chocolate” have different significations in the society. Moreover, their characters can be appropriate in any race, culture or country that is also suffering from the strict dictates of tradition & society.

Josefita “Tita” De La Garza

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