Literary Quest

        NARRATOR 1:  Once in China there lived an old widow and her son, Chen. The widow was known all over for the brocades that she made on her loom. NARRATOR 4:  Weaving threads of silver, gold, and colored silk into her cloth, she made pictures of flowers, birds, and animals— NARRATOR 2:  pictures so real they seemed almost alive. NARRATOR 3:  People said there were no brocades finer than the ones the widow wove. NARRATOR 1:  One day, the widow took a pile of brocades to the marketplace, where she quickly sold them. Then she went about buying her household needs. NARRATOR 4:  All at once she stopped. WIDOW:  Oh, my! NARRATOR 2:  Her eye had been caught by a beautiful painted scroll that hung in one of the stalls. NARRATOR 3:  It showed a marvelous palace, all red and yellow and blue and green, reaching delicately to the sky. All around were fantastic gardens, and walking through them, the loveliest maidens. NARRATOR 1:  The stall keeper asked, STALL KEEPER:  Do

Whose woods these are I think I know.   His house is in the village though;   He will not see me stopping here   To watch his woods fill up with snow.     My little horse must think it queer   To stop without a farmhouse near   Between the woods and frozen lake   The darkest evening of the year.     He gives his harness bells a shake   To ask if there is some mistake.   The only other sound’s the sweep   Of easy wind and downy flake.     The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   But I have promises to keep,   And miles to go before I sleep,   And miles to go before I sleep. About the Author Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet renowned for his depictions of rural New England life and his command of American colloquial speech. Frost's work frequently explored complex social and philosophical themes using everyday language and settings. He won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and became one of America's best-loved poets. His poetry oft

Definition The novel is a genre of fiction. It is a prose narrative of considerable length and certain complexity. It deals imaginatively with human experience. Through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting, it reveals the story of a protagonist. The term novel is derived from the Italian novella meaning “a little new thing”.   Origin A novel as a genre developed at the time of the introduction of paper and innovation in printing by Johannes Gutenberg  in 1439. Recent technological developments led to novels being published in non-print media such as audiobooks, web novels and eBooks. The earliest novels include classical Greek and Latin prose narratives from the first century BC to the second century AD, such as  Chariton 's  Callirhoe  (mid-1st century),   Petronius '  Satyricon ,  Lucian 's  True Story ,  Apuleius '  The Golden Ass , and the anonymous  Aesop Romance  and  Alexander Romance .  In the 14 th Century,