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2. Five Children and It - Wikipedia

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   Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent.The five children (Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as "the Lamb") are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.

3. The Emperor's New Clothes - Wikipedia

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   In the source tale, a king is hoodwinked by weavers who claim to make a suit of clothes invisible to any man not the son of his presumed father; whereas Andersen altered the source tale to direct the focus on courtly pride and intellectual vanity rather than adulterous paternity.

4. Bamboozled - Wikipedia

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   Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy - drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success. It features an ensemble cast including Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Savion Glover, Tommy ...

5. Hoodwinked! - Wikipedia

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   English. Budget. $8 million [2] [3] [4] Box office. $110 million [5] Hoodwinked! is a 2005 American independent animated mystery comedy film. It retells the folktale "Little Red Riding Hood" as a police procedural, using backstories to show multiple characters' points of view.

6. Huh? Here's Exactly What 'HEA' Means in a Book - AOL

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   The Typical Romance Novel: "In a typical romance novel, woman meets man; man is bit of a jerk; woman reluctantly finds herself attracted to man; woman eventually tames man and the couple lives ...

7. Man's Search for Meaning - Wikipedia

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   Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.

8. Things Fall Apart - Wikipedia

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   Things Fall Apart is the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. [1] It depicts the events of pre-colonial life in Igboland, a cultural area in modern-day southeastern Nigeria, and the subsequent appearance of European missionaries and colonial forces in the late 19th century. It is seen as an archetypal modern ...

9. Civilization and Its Discontents - Wikipedia

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   Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It was written in 1929 and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Civilization"). [1] Exploring what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society, the ...