<i>Diary of a Bad Year</i> (2007): Coetzee between essay and autofiction by Lucia Claudia Fiorella

“…The work – which is neither an essay, nor a novel, and not even a diary but a mixture of the three, eluding any attempt to define its genre – dramatizes the difficulty of being a man and an intellectual in these times and at an old age, and settles it graphically by dividing the page in three horizontal sections in a Freudian and Dostoevskian succession. …”
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After such kindness / by Arnold, Gaynor, author

Risk Factors Associated with Underweight Children Under the Age of Five in Putrajaya, Malaysia: A Case-Control Study by Ruhaya Salleh, Mohamad Hasnan Ahmad, Cheong Siew Man, Norazizah Ibrahim Wong, Syafinaz Mohd Sallehuddin, Lalitha Palaniveloo, Norsyamlina Che Abdul Rahim, Azli Baharudin, Hazizi Abu Saad, Mohd Azahadi Omar, Noor Ani Ahmad

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THE RULE OF FOUR / by Caldwell, Ian, 1976-, author 255651, Thomason, Dustin, author 255668

“…Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets -- to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. …”

Fyataru by Sourit Bhattacharya

“…That guy sleeping peacefully against a pole –  now awake – starts abusing the man in front who was making some salty crisps for his pegs. …”
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Specifics of Bildungsroman Structure in Protocanon Phase of Socialist Realism by O. Yu. Osmukhina, E. P. Ovsyannikova

“…Fadeev’s “Razgrom”, N. Ognev’s “Diary of Kostya Ryabtsev”, A. Gaidar’s “School”, A. …”
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God, vertroue en twyfel: Die vroue in die konsentrasiekampe tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog by Ignatius W.C. Van Wyk

“…These women’s understanding of God was mainly shaped by the Old Testament. They saw the two Boer republics as the new people of God, elected to exist in freedom, as independent states. …”
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The Origins of the Personal Type of Narrative in D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak’s Shorter Prose by Oleg Vasilyevich Zyryanov

“…In the works of the same period (stories Between Us, The Old Fife, and others) a personal type of narration emerges clearly, which continues logically in the stories of the 1900s (Influenza. …”
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Beyond Urban Civilization by A. A. Koroleva

“…While the first chapter runs about man and nature, the second is devoted to the city versus the countryside. …”
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The Princeton reader : contemporary essays by writers and journalists at Princeton University / by McPhee, John, 1931-, Rigolot, Carol., Princeton University.

A study of Mark Pattison's religious experience, 1813-1850 by Nolan, F, NOLAN, Fergal

“…For, instead of an embittered old man, we discover a much younger Pattison, a man who is shy but, at the same time, eager, passionate, enthusiastic, and hopeful, and a complete and thorough idealist.…”

Character and Characterization in “Palms and Men” novel by Fariedeh Khajehpour, Zoalfagar Alami

“…Also, reasoning of uncle Heidar about war and his eyes that see the appearance of things in another way is narrated as: “The old man said that war is simple as well as a hard subordination of God. …”
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