Jennifer Lawrence
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Jennifer Lawrence is a versatile actress known for her roles in 'Winter’s Bone,' 'The Hunger Games,' 'X-Men' and 'Joy.' She won an Oscar for her role in 'Silver Linings Playbook.'
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Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realises just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots a...
Jennifer Lawrence
2016-11-02T00:00:00.000ZThe hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for u...
Jennifer Lawrence
2016-11-02T00:00:00.000ZThe last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York Times). These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass--the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family--...
Jennifer Lawrence
2016-11-02T00:00:00.000ZTolstoy published Anna Karenina in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as, "the best ever ...
Jennifer Lawrence
2012-04-12T00:00:00.000Z