Raja: 563 books

“A Separate Peace” by John Knowles is a coming-of-age novel. The novel is based on a short story titled “Phineas” written by Knowles earlier in his life.Although it was the author’s first published novel, it eventually became his best known work. The novel is set against the backdrop...

The book was made into a movie in 2003 and then in the year 2008 it was adapted into a play.According to the author, she had bought that painting when she was nineteen years old, and after that she kept it with her wherever she went for the following sixteen years. She admits that the ambiguous...

“Educating Rita” by British playwright Willy Russell first premiered at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980.It is a stage comedy. The play is for two actors. The entire play is set in the office of an Open University lecturer.It is regarded as Willy Russell’s one of the most regarded...

It is a fictional autobiography of Robinson Crusoe, who happens to be a castaway. Crusoe is compelled to spend twenty eight years on a remote island near Trinidad, the West Indies. He lives alone, facing all sorts of dangers. He encounters cannibals, captives, and mutineers. Finally, he is...

“The Bluest Eye” by Nobel Prize winning American author Toni Morrison was first published in 1970. While writing this novel, Toni Morrison was teaching at Howard University and raising her two sons on her own. The story covers the time period of about one year; it revolves around the life...

“Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen was first published in 2001. It is a young adult novel. The story revolves around a young boy.The boy goes through the experiences of violence, nature, and forgiveness when he is banished to a remote Island in Alaska. It is a punishment for a violent...

“The French Lieutenant’s Woman” by John Fowles was first published in 1969. It is a postmodern historical fiction. It was the third novel published by the author. His first two novels were “The Collector” and “The Magus” published in 1963 and 1965 respectively.Charles Smithson...

The story is narrated from the reverse chronological order. It has been narrated from shifting perspectives. The text of the story makes it a “Formation Novel” or “The Bildungsroman”, which happens to be a genre of the novel that concentrates on the psychological and moral development...

“I Am the Cheese” by Robert Cormier was first published in 1977. The title of the book has been taken from a song that the protagonist sings during the book. He keeps singing several songs with the word ‘cheese’ in them throughout the story.Adam Farmer, the protagonist of the novel,...

“The Country Wife” by William Wycherley is a Restoration comedy. It was written in the year 1675. Since the play was written during the early Restoration period, it presents and aristocratic and anti-puritan ideology. The play was immediately declared as controversial because sexual...

“Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller was first published in 1934. The book was described as notorious for its candid sexuality, and it created a lot of controversy when it was first published.The free speech which is very common in literature now was first used by Henry Miller and he was...

The narrator of the story is sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen. Katniss lives in a post apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where there used to be the countries of North America. The Capitol is a highly modern and technically advanced town and it holds hegemony over the rest of the country. There...

“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle is a science fantasy. The book was first published in the year 1962. The story of the novel revolves around a young girl. Her father happens to be a government scientist. His father had been working on a mysterious project called a tesseract, but...

“The Joys of Motherhood” by Buchi Emecheta was first published in 1979. The novel is regarded as one of the best African novels that deal with the issues of women and their place in society.The central issue in the novel is the necessity for a woman, in Africa, to be fertile, and above...