A Separate Peace
Title | A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | John Knowles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-05-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789394752993 |
PBS's The Great American Read named it one of America's best-loved novels. A Separate Peace has been a bestseller in the United States for nearly thirty years, and it is ageless in its depiction of youth during a time when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. A Separate Peace is a horrific and brilliant fable about the dark side of adolescence set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II. Gene is an introverted, lonely intellectual. Phineas is a reckless athlete who is attractive and taunts others. Like the war itself, what happens between the two friends one summer robs these guys and their world of their innocence.
Peace Breaks Out
Title | Peace Breaks Out PDF eBook |
Author | John Knowles |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1982-10 |
Genre | Boys |
ISBN | 9780808517481 |
In the uneasy peace after World War II, the senior year at Devan School for Boys in New Hampshire changes from a time of fiendships into a stunning drama of tragic betrayal.
Black Dogs
Title | Black Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | Ian McEwan |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2010-07-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307367002 |
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of Bernard and June Tremaine’s marriage, as witnessed by their son-in-law, Jeremy, who seeks to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences that seem irreconcilable. In writing June’s memoirs, Jeremy is led back to a moment, that was, for June, as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy’s own time. Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civilization’s darkest moods—its black dogs—with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.
John Knowles's A Separate Peace
Title | John Knowles's A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Bloom |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Preparatory school students in literature |
ISBN | 1438126522 |
A collection of essays analyzing Knowles's classic work, including a chronology of his works and life.
A Separate Peace
Title | A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Stoppard |
Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN | 0573625131 |
The Last Airbender
Title | The Last Airbender PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Teitelbaum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Martial arts |
ISBN |
Understanding A Separate Peace
Title | Understanding A Separate Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Hallman Bryant |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2001-11-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1573566861 |
Since its publication in 1959, A Separate Peace has acquired the reputation of a minor classic of American literature. This insightful analysis helps young readers relate to the themes of disillusionment, guilt and betrayal, and the fear of failure and intergenerational conflicts experienced by the teenaged characters in the novel. This casebook also situates A Separate Peace against the backdrop of World War II, enabling students to see the connections between the fictional world of the novel and the real World as it existed for young people. Moving well beyond a standard literary treatment, this interdisciplinary casebook provides a collection of historical primary documents drawn from official records, War Department orders, institutional histories, personal memoirs and letters, and poignant interviews. With commentary by Knowles himself, the casebook takes readers from the prep school setting of the novel to the impact of wartime on American students and their schools. You're in the Army Now explores the difficult transitions through induction and military training. The Combat Zone graphically confronts the realities of war with interviews of two former P.O.W.'s who experienced firsthand the terrors and tragedies of WWII. The volume also examines some of the contemporary issues of the novel including current controversies in athletic programs, gender issues in education, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Teachers and librarians will find helpful suggestions for oral discussion, research projects, and further suggested readings on these important topics.