Hugo Award for Best Novel

Kurt Vonnegut a German short story writer and novelist, who endured a very hard and depressing young life, uses his background as motivation for many of his novels and short stories. “Deer in the Works” one of many short stories by Kurt Vonnnegut, was published in 1950. Vonnegut after his service in World War II had a job at G.E or General Electric. This where people theorize where he got inspiration for “Deer in the Works”. The setting in this book is the industrialized plant of Illium works,…

got divorced but she soon met her next husband Max Mallowan. Max was an archeologist so he travelled often and Christie usually travelled with him. She took multiple trips to Syria and Iraq with Max, which served as inspiration for several of her novels. Travelling was one of Agatha Christie’s favorite things to do, and she did it whenever she had the chance. It was normal for her to only return to England for holidays and spend most of her time travelling when her daughter Rosalind was in…

Critique Form 1 Alphabet, Concept, Number Books title: Blue Hat, Green Hat author: Sandra Boynton publisher: Little Simon earliest date of publication: 1984 type: Concept difficulty level: Preschool, Kindergarten awards: Summary of Content ‘Blue Hat, Green Hat’ is a book to teach children the concept of colors and how to wear clothes. It starts off with an elephant wearing a blue hat, a moose wearing a green hat, a bear wearing a red hat and then it says “oops” because the next animal is a…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…

the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as evidenced by its continued and uninterrupted sales into the eighties, almost half a century later. Dale Carnegie used to say…