114 résultats pour "novelli"
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Novela - lengua y litteratura.
La escritora inglesa Jane Austen fue autora de numerosas novelas que se centran en la clase media de su país. En obras como Orgulloy prejuicio (1813), quedó de manifiesto su atenta percepción de los pequeños detalles con los que ilustraba la vida cotidiana de suspersonajes. Ha pasado a la posteridad por su profunda comprensión de los sentimientos y por la brillantez e ingenio de su estilodescriptivo.The New York Public Library Las diversas categorías de novela aparecidas durante el siglo XVIII n...
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William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Twentieth-century American novelist William Faulkner wrote novels that explored the tensions between the old and the
new in the American South.
Faulkner’s “powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” He also wrote numerous short stories, many of the best of which werepublished in book form in Go Down, Moses (1942) and The Collected Stories (1950; Pulitzer Prize, 1951). In-between his fiction works, which until late in his career did not always pay well, Faulkner wrote screenplays for Hollywood; two of his more prominent scripts were for the motion pictures To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big S...
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Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Twentieth-century American author Ernest Hemingway wrote novels and stories that reflected his rich life experiences as
a war correspondent, outdoor sportsman, and bullfight enthusiast.
In his early work Hemingway used themes of helplessness and defeat, but in the late 1930s his writing began to reflect concerns about social problems. His novel To Have and Have Not (1937) and his play The Fifth Column, published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938), strongly condemned economic and political injustice. Two of his best short stories, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” were part of the story collection. In thecla...
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Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
These lines (recited by an actor) begin the novel Moby Dick (1851), by Herman Melville.
short novel Billy Budd in manuscript form. Melville’s death in New York City on September 28, 1891, went virtually unnoticed. None of his books was still in print. VI MELVILLE’S EARLY WORKS With the exception of Mardi , all of Melville’s early books are narratives of maritime adventure based upon his own experiences and on his wide reading. Although London publisher John Murray accepted Typee for his Home and Colonial Library as a strictly factual account of South Seas travel, he was lar...
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Native American Literature
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Leslie Marmon Silko
Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko is perhaps best known for her first novel, Ceremony (1977), a coming-of-age
story about a young man of mixed Native American and white ancestry.
SequoyahNative Americans did not use a complex written language before the immigration of Europeans to the Americas. In theearly 1820s the Cherokee leader Sequoyah developed an alphabet and written language for his native tongue. ManyCherokee learned the new written language readily, and in 1828 they published the first Native American newspaper,written in both Cherokee and English.THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Before Native Americans came into contact with Europeans, many tribes supplemented the spoken...
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NOVELLI Gastone : Le Fils de famille
NOVELLI Gastone Le Fils de famille Né à Vienne, 1925 Mort à Milan, 1968 Gastone Novelli arrêté durant la guerre par les SS, incarcéré jusqu'en 1945, s'initie aux arts gra phiques à Zurich, avec Max Bill, se rend au Bré sil, travaille à un dictionnaire de la langue gua rani, s'occupe du rituel de la macumba et enseigne le dessin et la théorie de la communi cation à l'Institut du Musée de Sào Paulo. De retour en Europe, il rencon...
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Ab la dolçor du temps novel
par contre, la dignité lui est présentée plus bonne et plus belle. Mais dans ce temps il ne peut pas voir venir ni messager comme il voudrait approuver sa dignité, ni lettre scellée, car son écoteur n’endort pas et ne rit pas dans cette obscurité. Il n'ose pas de décrire comme il va par ce monde gris. L'individu de Guillaume IX veut qu’on sache la bonté du but de sa poésie, le miroir de son amour, si elle est aussi comme il demande dans chaque son pas par l...
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American writer, whose novels
- F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American writer, whose novels
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Indian Literature
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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Indian author Arundhati Roy poses with a copy of her acclaimed first novel, The God of Small Things (1997).
Mathura BuddhaMany of the earliest texts of Indian literature were religious writings of Buddhism. This Buddha figure carved out ofsandstone is from Mathura, a city in northern India that was at the center of Buddhist sculptural activity from the 2ndcentury bc to the 6th century ad.Angelo Hornak/Corbis The sacred Vedas were composed in Old Sanskrit by Aryan poet-seers between about 1500 BC and about 1000 BC. The Vedas are compilations of two major literary forms: hymns of praise to nature deit...
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NOVELLI Gastone : Le Fils de famille (analyse du tableau).
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- Novela ejemplar sobre la locura - lengua y litteratura.
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Jane Austen
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Jane Austen
English author Jane Austen crafted satirical romances set within the confines of upper-middle-class English society.
up their personal pride and prejudices before they can enter into a happy relationship together. As do Austen’s earlier writings, Pride and Prejudice displays the themes of appearance versus reality, and impulse versus deliberation. Elizabeth, trusting her own impulses, makes a mistake about Darcy and his apparent arrogance that deliberation and further experience eventually cause her to correct. Of Elizabeth, Austenwrote: “I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appea...
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens
English author Charles Dickens ranks as one of the most popular writers in the history of world literature.
Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-1837; 1837); The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1837-1839; 1838); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839; 1839); The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841; 1841); Barnaby Rudge (1841); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844; 1844); Dombey and Son (1846-1848; 1848); The Personal History of David Copperfield (1849-1850; 1850); Bleak House (1852-1853; 1853); Hard Times (1854); Little Dorrit (1855-1857; 1857); A Tale of Tw...
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Jane Austen.
years later.) Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s most ambitious novel—in length, in variety of characterization, and in the scope of its theme. It centers on the effects of upbringing on personal morality in three families—the middle-class Bertrams, the fashionable Crawfords, and the impoverished Prices. Austen has been praised for her presentation ofthe complex relations between the members of the families, but as in Sense and Sensibility, she frustrates the expectations of her readers that the...
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Charles Dickens.
The Old Curiosity Shop broke hearts across Britain and North America when it first appeared. Later readers, however, have found it excessively sentimental, especially the pathos surrounding the death of its child-heroine Little Nell. Dickens’s next two works proved less popular with the public. Barnaby Rudge, Dickens’s first historical novel, revolves around anti-Catholic riots that broke out in London in 1780. The events in Martin Chuzzlewit become a vehicle for the novel’s theme: selfishne...
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - lengua y litteratura.
Constanza en La ilustre fregona, entre las andanzas toledanas de Carriazo y Avendaño, prendado éste de la bella fregona de la Posada del Sevillano, hija natural del padre de Carriazo. Amores y aventuras, disfraces y casualidades, engaños y reparaciones entre gentes de la nobleza configuran las intrigas de Las dos doncellas y La señora Cornelia. Los engaños de las doncellas Teodosia y Leocadia componen una intriga con temas pastoriles y técnicas de la novela bizantina. La señora Cornelia,...
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Westerns
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Gene Autry
Known as the Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry was the star of nearly 100 Westerns during his career as an actor.
James Fenimore CooperNineteenth-century American writer James Fenimore Cooper, famed for his adventure novels of American frontier life, wasalso an ardent social critic. Cooper wrote a series of five novels, known collectively as the Leather-Stocking Tales, in whichhe detailed the adventures of a fictional frontiersman named Natty Bumppo. In Bumppo, Cooper portrayed a man ofnature and a friend of the Native Americans. In addition to fiction, Cooper wrote several nonfiction works criticizingAmeri...
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Herman Melville.
information in Omoo , but various religious groups condemned both books for their unfavorable comments on the work and insensitivity of missionaries in the South Seas. Mardi is a philosophical allegory framed by another adventure at sea. The book’s hero, accompanied by characters representing the intellect, poetry, history, and philosophy, searches the world for universal truth. The book is filled with descriptions—intended as allegories—of human customs, religions, governments, and historical...
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Literatura estadounidense - idiomas.
exuberancia de Whitman dio lugar a la creación de una poesía sin frenos que se centra en las creencias, ideas y experiencias del hombre corriente. El poeta recurre a largasestrofas rítmicas, a gran número de detalles y a la afirmación de una identidad mística con todo lo que existe, con la intención de celebrar la fuerza espiritual en lademocracia de las 'poderosas personas sin educación'. 4.1 La Guerra Civil y la segunda mitad del siglo XIX El presidente Abraham Lincoln describió humorísticame...
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El camino
Académico de la lengua. Galardones. En 1973, con más de veinte libros publicados y varios premios en su haber, Miguel Delibes es elegido miembro de la Real Academia de la Lengua , ocupando el sillón “e minúscula”. Llegan también para Miguel Delibes los reconocimientos y los premios: el Príncipe de Asturias , en 1982; el premio de las Letras de Castilla y León , en 1984; el de las Letras Españolas , e n 1991; y dos años más tarde, en 1993, el prem...
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Native American Literature.
Many Native American writers of the 19th century wrote histories of their tribes. One tribal historian was David Cusick (Tuscarora), whose Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827) was the first published tribal history. Tribal histories explained the deep ties that tribes had to their ancestral homelands. Beginning in the 18th century, these ties took on special meaning because the United States government began removing Native Americans from their traditional lands. These removal...
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Une courte resume sur l'oeuvre Regeneration ecrite par Pat Barker (TPE)
-Being emotionless -Hallucinations -Homosexuality -Phobias All of those diseases were treated by a treatment named 'shell-shock' Most of the shell-shock in all wars were used in the World War First. The main idea of this treatment is to cure the soldiers easily and make them return to the war. But how Barker know all of this? How she found all of this ideas and facts? But why this novel is consumed so much? What is the nature of this book? First of all is a truly realistic novel, characters are...
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primavera con esquina rota
SARRAZIN Elena EL TITULO El autor nos explica el título, una metáfora, en uno de los fragmentos llamados “Extramuros”. Santiago, un preso político es amnistiado. Después de cinco años en los que ha perdido su vida, separado de su familia, sufriendo la tortura, la soledad y luchando contra la locura, después de cinco años de invierno, llega la primavera, el renacimiento, la esperanza. Va a recuperar su vida, pero nunca estará completa, no podrá salir ileso de fatídica experiencia. La vida, frágil...
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Agatha Christie
b. Miss Jane Marple : Miss Jane Marple, another famous character of the work of Agatha Christie appeared in 1930 in the novel The Murder at the Vicarage "and continue his career until 1979, having starred in a dozen novels inwhich it solves the murders of the most interesting as those "train from 16h50" or "At Bertram's Hotel". It is already old when it was discovered in the first book but that did not stop carrying out its various investigations. She leads a quiet life of single hardened in...
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African Literature
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African Literature, oral and written literature produced on the African continent.
that few scholars of African culture know any African languages, and few Africans know an African language other than their own. The best-known literatures in Africanlanguages include those in Yoruba and Hausa in West Africa; Sotho, Xhosa, and Zulu in southern Africa; and Amharic, Somali, and Swahili in East Africa. In West Africa, Yoruba writing emerged after Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a former slave, developed a script for the language and in 1900 published the first Yorubatranslation of the Bible...
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Mark Twain.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor
or biting social satire.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Mark Twain - USA History.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski - lengua y litteratura.
En Crimen y castigo, probablemente su mejor novela, un estudiante pobre, Raskolnikov, asesina y roba a una vieja avara a la que considera un parásito, con el fin de destruir una vida que le parece miserable y salvar la de sus familiares, sumidos en la indigencia. Atormentado por su culpa y su aislamiento, termina por confesar y porredimirse espiritualmente. El tema principal de esta novela es un análisis sobre si un ser, que se ve como un individuo extraordinario, tiene derecho a quebrantar el...
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Literatura española - lengua y litteratura.
Antonio de Nebrija, autor de la Gramática de la lengua castellana (1492). En este periodo cobró también forma definitiva la novela de caballerías española más famosa e imitada, el Amadís de Gaula (1508), publicándose posteriormente muchas novelas de caballerías a semejanza suya. Destacan en esta época otros nombres como Alfonso Martínez de Toledo, Arcipreste de Talavera, autor del Corbacho ; Diego de San Pedro y su Cárcel de amor, o el cronista Hernando del Pulgar. La Celestina o Tragic...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Essay
and her husband is supposed to meet her there. She finds comfort in the person of Minister Arthur Dimmesdale, and let herself be tempted by an act of passion, and love that gave birth to a « sinful » child. Then Hester has to carry the burden of her shame embodied in the Scarlet Letter, and in Pearl. Hester follows what we can call natural laws : Roger Prynne (aka Chillingworth) is described as old, deformed, and a man of science confine in his books, whereas Hester is young...
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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg
The imaginative films of Steven Spielberg are known for their technical creativity and memorable characters.
Courtesy of Everett Collection Spielberg teamed up with writer-producer George Lucas in the 1980s to make the action-adventure Indiana Jones film series: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Other directorial projects during this period included the science-fiction fantasy E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial , at the time the highest-grossing film ever made; The Color Purple (1985), a drama based on the novel...
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German Literature
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German Literature, literature written in the German language from the 8th century to the present, and including the works of German, Austrian, and Swiss authors.
Till EulenspiegelThe medieval peasant Till Eulenspiegel appears in many German folktales as a trickster who outwits people in positions ofauthority. In this image his first name is spelled Tyll.Keystone Pressedienst GmbH The rise of the middle class in the 14th and 15th centuries and the struggles of the peasants against the nobility culminated in the great 16th-century religiousrevolution known as the Reformation. This movement was reflected in literature, especially by Martin Luther, whose tra...
- La construction de l'église abbatiale de Santa Maria Novella
- Novela picaresca: El Buscón - lengua y litteratura.
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Japanese Literature
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Japanese Literature, literature of Japan, in written form from at least the 8th century
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to the present.
The Man’yō’sh ū contains about 4,500 poems, most of them composed in the Nara period (710-784). Some of the poems are far older, however, and some of the verses date to earlier collections that have not survived. The work demonstrates a gradual change from basic verses on simple subjects to more sophisticated expressions with a broad range of subject matter. This text also shows the development of poetic forms such as the tanka (short poem), a form structured around alternating lines of 5 an...
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Literatura alemana - idiomas.
5 SIGLO XVIII Al comienzo del siglo XVIII la vida cultural alemana se había hecho más receptiva a los nuevos modelos e ideas literarias. Novelas como Robinson Crusoe , del novelista inglés Daniel Defoe, fueron ampliamente leídas en Alemania, y significaron la decadencia de la narración heroica y el incremento del realismo en la novela alemana. Uncrítico notable del periodo fue Johann Christoph Gottsched, cuyo Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen (Ensayo de una poética críti...
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- La Maestà réalisée pour la chapelle Rucellai de Santa Maria Novella à Florence
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Film Noir
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Lynch's Blue Velvet
The motion picture Blue Velvet (1986) brought wide acclaim to American director David Lynch.
Double IndemnityBarbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray are featured in Double Indemnity (1944), a story of lust and greed in the film noirtradition, directed by Billy Wilder. The film’s events are related in flashbacks by protagonist Walter Neff (MacMurray), whomakes a dying confession about a plot to kill a man for his insurance money.Bettmann/Corbis Another common aspect of film noir is the femme fatale, a seductive woman who lures the protagonist into actions that ultimately lead to his downfall...
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Commentry Author 's Notes Life of Pie
The author however is suspicious, he poses leading questions to find out the motivation of Mr.Adirubasamy, finally his curiosity is piqued and he asks to hear the story. The storyteller though places a condition to telling the story; the author must pay proper attention, which cour se the eager author accepts. So the story is told, in the telling Mr.Adirubasamy mentally transports the author through the town, to the botanical gardens and an old zoo. At the end of the story he encourages the...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - idiomas.
Weimar (Alemania)La ciudad alemana de Weimar fue un centro cultural durante los siglos XVIII y XIX. Goethe pasaba en esta casa, situada en un parquejunto a un estanque, grandes temporadas en el estío; es un museo en la actualidad.Peter Arnold, Inc. El año 1775 fue importante para Goethe y para la historia literaria alemana. Este año, Carlos Augusto, heredero del ducado de Sajonia-Weimar, invitó a Goethe a vivir ytrabajar en Weimar, su capital, que entonces era uno de los centros intelectuales y...
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Literary Criticism
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Literary Criticism, discussion of literature, including description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literary works.
IV THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES The climate of criticism changed with the arrival on the literary scene of such giants as Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and Pedro Calderòn in Spain; WilliamShakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Milton in England; and Pierre Corneille, Jean Baptiste Racine, and Molière in France. Most of these writers specialized or excelled indrama, and consequently the so-called battle of the ancients and moderns—the critical comparison of Greek and Roman authors with more rece...
- Jaws Jaws, motion picture about a killer shark, based on the popular novel by Peter Benchley.
- Psycho Psycho, motion picture about a deranged innkeeper and his mother, based on a novel by Robert Bloch.
- Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now, motion picture about the Vietnam War (1959-1975) patterned after Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness (1902).
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- To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird, motion picture about a Southern lawyer who defends a black man in a rape trial, based on a novel by Harper Lee.
- The Godfather The Godfather, box-office hit motion picture about the fortunes of a prominent Mafia family during the 1940s and 1950s, based on a best-selling novel by Mario Puzo.