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  100 Best First Lines from Novels:- 1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville,  Moby-Dick  (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen,  Pride and Prejudice  (1813) 3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon,  Gravity's Rainbow  (1973) 4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez,  One Hundred Years of Solitude  (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa) 5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —Vladimir Nabokov,  Lolita  (1955) 6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy,  Anna Karenina  (1877; trans. Constance Garnett) 7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back t...

  Nonsense Literature “To write about nonsense is like going to sea in a sieve…” – Wim Tiggs  Introduction Although the Alice books have long been called fine examples of “nonsense,” until recently the use of the term merely planted them more firmly in the genre of Children’s Literature, the “appropriate” place for nonsense.  It was not until the last third of the twentieth century that critics began to take the label seriously, recognizing literary nonsense as a genre of its own. Since then, many critics have begun to look more closely at Carroll’s brand of nonsense, exploring the craft and (a bit paradoxically) the “meaning” of the nonsense.    What is Literary Nonsense? Before exploring the Nonsensical in Alice, I’ll attempt to give a working definition of what “literary nonsense” is.  It is not merely gibberish, nor parody or satire, but a true and distinct art form, which, in the words of Jean-Jacque Lecercle, “both supports the myth of an informative ...

 Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species.cannibalism is also called "ANTHROPHAGY",eating human flesh by humans.The term is derived from the Spanish name (Caríbales, or Caníbales) for the Carib, a West Indies tribe well known for its practice of cannibalism.The Island Carib people of the Lesser Antilles, from whom the word "cannibalism" is derived, acquired a long-standing reputation as cannibals after their legends were recorded in the 17th century.Human cannibalism is well documented, both in ancient and in recent times.A widespread custom going back into early human history, cannibalism has been found among peoples on most continents. Though many early accounts of cannibalism probably were exaggerated or in error, the practice prevailed until modern times in parts of West and Central Africa, Melanesia (esp...

The Hungry Tide The Hungry Tide and Eco-cosmopolitanism The Hungry Tide is by common consensus considered to be one of the important fictions of post-Independence literary enterprise and by extension the best of Ghosh’s creative manoeuvre. The various thematic aspects assimilated in the novel is an indicator of Ghosh’s unregulated attention towards diverse and multitude perspectives which automatically included the scope of postcolonial study and also permitted other tropes as related to ecocriticism, migration, diaspora, myths, and more recurrent issues as of class discrimination, geo-political questions, and not least the inclusion of postmodern techniques of eco-narrative, decentralisation, the question of time, space, and identity and so on. The Hungry Tide is a novel about settlers in the precarious tide country of the Sundarbans who have to contend with the government’s wildlife project, with the tides that erase and create land with alarming frequency, with the tigers and spiri...

      Henry Fielding   is widely studied today as one of the chief begetters of the modernist movement in novel and as a master who embodied in realistic prose a panoramic survey of the contemporary society. With the novelty and vitality of the writings of Henry Fielding exerted a major influence on the succeeding writers and dominated the English fiction until the end of the 19th century.          Fielding’s brilliant   tour de force   Joseph Andrews   is an  astounding encapsulation of the 18th century English social life  and manners. It mirrors with rare force and realism, the blemishes of mankind in its true face. The novel, in its entirety, is an impassioned   satire   on the moral and social ills that beset the 18th century English society. In this novel we are confronted with a  chameleonic society  that frequently changes its appearance to gratify personal lusts of vari...