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- Genre: Novel / Satire / Parable
- Title: 1984
- Point of view: Third-Person Limited
- Setting: London in the year 1984
- Character: Winston Smith. Description: The protagonist of the novel, a 39-year-old Outer Party functionary who privately rebels against the Party's totalitarian rule. Frail, intellectual, and fatal... | 3,263 |
- Genre: realism, regionalism, micro-fiction
- Title: 55 Miles to the Gas Pump
- Point of view: omniscient 3rd person
- Setting: a ranch in rural Wyoming
- Character: Rancher Croom. Description: Rancher Croom is Mrs. Croom's husband, a cattleman on a rural Wyoming farm who is described initially as a "warm-handed, quic... | 4,222 |
- Genre: Short story/Coming of Age
- Title: A&P
- Point of view: First-person narrator (Sammy)
- Setting: An A&P grocery store in a town somewhere north of Boston
- Character: Sammy. Description: Sammy, the narrator of the story, sarcastically observes the customers of A&P from his standpoint behind the cash registers.... | 3,162 |
- Genre: Social Commentary, Ghost Story
- Title: A Christmas Carol
- Point of view: A third-person, omniscient narrator
- Setting: London
- Character: Ebenezer Scrooge. Description: The quintessential miser, he is cruel-hearted, underpays his clerk Bob Cratchit, and says "Humbug!" to the Christmas festivities that brin... | 4,147 |
- Genre: Short story, modernism
- Title: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: A clean, well-lighted café
- Character: Old Waiter. Description: The old waiter, the story's protagonist, is the older of two waiters at a clean, well-lighted café. Hemingway depicts the old waiter as kind, dig... | 3,876 |
- Genre: Science-fiction
- Title: A Clockwork Orange
- Point of view: First person narrator (Alex)
- Setting: Dystopian England in the not-so-distant future
- Character: Alex. Description: The narrator and protagonist of A Clockwork Orange. Alex is a smart "nadsat" [teen] boy with a penchant for what he calls "ultra-vi... | 3,473 |
- Genre: Science Fiction, Satire
- Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Sixth-century Britain, during the reign of the legendary King Arthur
- Character: Hank Morgan. Description: Hank Morgan is the Connecticut Yankee who finds himself thrown into sixth-century Bri... | 7,549 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: A Day’s Wait
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: An American family home
- Character: The Father. Description: The father is the story's unnamed narrator. He treats his nine-year-old son with affection and tenderness, encouraging him to rest and allow his body to recover rather than s... | 5,031 |
- Genre: Fiction; short story; literary realism
- Title: A Family Supper
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: Kamakura, Japan
- Character: Narrator. Description: The narrator of "A Family Supper," who remains unnamed, is a young Japanese man who is living in America when he learns that his mother has died by eating... | 6,222 |
- Genre: War Novel
- Title: A Farewell to Arms
- Point of view: First-person; (Frederic Henry is the narrator.)
- Setting: Italy and Switzerland during World War I, 1916–1918
- Character: Lieutenant Frederic Henry. Description: An American who volunteers for the Italian ambulance corps before the United States joins th... | 2,386 |
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