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     Emma   Jane Austen ·         Main Characters: Emma Woodhouse –  The protagonist of the novel.  She is handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition. Emma’s misplaced confidence in her abilities as a matchmaker and her prudish fear of love constitute the central focus of the novel, which traces Emma’s mistakes and growing self-understanding. Mr. George Knightley -  Emma’s brother-in-law and the Woodhouses’ trusted friend and advisor. Knightley is the only character who is openly critical of Emma, pointing out her flaws and foibles with frankness, out of genuine concern and care for her. Mr. Woodhouse -  Emma’s father, is nervous, frail, and prone to hypochondria, he is also known for his friendliness and his attachment to his daughter. He is very resistant to change. Harriet Smith -  A pretty but unremarkable seventeen-year-old woman of u...
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THE WASHWOMAN

The Washwoman By: Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Isaac Singer was born on July 14, 1904, in Radzymin, Poland. He was a writer of novels, short stories, and essays in Yiddish. in 1950, he published his first major novel, The Family Moskat. Then he wrote a collection of short stories, including “Gimpel The Fool” and “The Spinoza of Market Street”. One of the greatest achievement was when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He received a traditional Jewish education at the Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary. His older brother was the novelist I.J. Singer and his sister the writer Esther Kreytman (Kreitman). 1925 was the year when he published the story “In Old Age”, his first novel, Satan in Goray, was published in Poland.  His most important novels are The Family Moskat (1950), The Magician of Lublin (1960), and The Slave (1962). During the 1960s, he worked in his most important work from the time; A Love Story, that is about the emoti...
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