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The Outsiders, American young adult (YA) novel by S.E. Hinton about rival teen gangs in Oklahoma that was published in 1967 and was one of the first modern YA novels.
- Meg Matthias
Generation Jones (1954–65), the youngest of the baby boomers. This term was largely the idea of Jonathan Pontell, an entrepreneur born in 1958, who contends that the experience of those who came of age in the 1970s was stuck between the oft-cited optimism of the boomers and the cynicism of Generation X. Xennials (1977–83), bridging the gap ...
- Alison Eldridge
Vanity Fair, novel of early 19th-century English society by William Makepeace Thackeray, published serially in monthly installments from 1847 to 1848 and in book form in 1848. Thackeray’s previous writings had been published either unsigned or under pseudonyms; Vanity Fair was the first work he.
2024年4月8日 · spouse Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley (born Aug. 4, 1792, Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, Eng.—died July 8, 1822, at sea off Livorno, Tuscany [Italy]) was an English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest ...
On This Day In History: anniversaries, birthdays, major events, and time capsules. This day's facts in the arts, politics, and sciences. The Indian Removal Act was passed, allowing U.S. President Andrew Jackson to grant Native American tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their settlements within the borders of extant U.S. states, thereby clearing the way for further white ...
4 Oliver and Richard Cromwell served as lords protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland during the republican Commonwealth. 5 William and Mary, as husband and wife, reigned jointly until Mary's death in 1694. William then reigned alone until his own death in 1702. 6 George IV was regent from February 5, 1811.
4 天前 · Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
