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‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.
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This legal maxim is often attributed to William E. Gladstone, a prominent British statesman and Prime Minister. It means that if legal redress is available for a party that has suffered some injury, but is not forthcoming in a timely fashion, it is effectively the same as having no redress at all.
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‘A Farewell to Arms’ is a semi-autobiographical novel by Ernest Hemingway. It captures the cynicism of soldiers, the displacement of populations, and the tragedy of love during wartime.
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‘India Wins Freedom’ is the memoir of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and the first Minister of Education in independent India.
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In literary criticism, a novelist is often said to have a hold of ‘style’. Style refers to the unique way a writer uses language, including word choice, sentence structure, and figurative language.
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The Elizabethan age (1558–1603) is often termed the Golden Age of English literature. It saw the pinnacle of English drama and poetry with writers like Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser.
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This famous line appears in William Wordsworth's poem ‘My Heart Leaps Up’. It expresses the Romantic belief that the childhood self shapes the adult, and that children are closer to nature and divinity.
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‘Macbeth’ is one of William Shakespeare's four great tragedies. It was likely written around 1606 and dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition.
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A sonnet is a specific poetic form consisting of fourteen lines. It typically follows a set rhyme scheme (such as the Shakespearean or Petrarchan) and written in iambic pentameter.
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This line is from ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats. The poet suggests that the imagination can create music more perfect and enduring than any sound that can be heard by the ear.