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“Six Characters In Search of an Author” by Luigi Pirandello was first published in 1921. It was originally an Italian play that was first performed in the same year of its publication.It is an absurdist meta-theatrical play which explores the relationship between authors, their characters,...

The novel is based on the personal experiences of the author and his friends who travelled across America. “On the Road” is often regarded as a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation. The protagonists of the novel live life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and use of drug. They...

The stories in this collection were published in 1915. The stories have been taken from the “Anthology of Tales from the Past.”Some of the stories in this collection are the most acclaimed short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The stories could not be published during his lifetime. The...

Bringing about harmony is the goal of this book. Sadly there has evolved distrust and misunderstandings between the gay and Christian communities. This unfortunate state of affairs exists today and the goal of this book is to present reason and information to create harmony instead of discord. It...

The novel has a universal appeal and it has been translated into several languages in different countries. Since the novel has a lot to tell about father and son relationship, parents generally relate to Nikolai Petrovich who keeps attempting to understand his son. On the other hand, children reading...

The novel was adapted into a highly successful movie in 1990. However, the movie’s story was a little different from the book. The characters in the book are nameless, but in the movie they have been given names, and second is the changed ending of the story. In the book, the main character ends...

The novel presents the account of Hurricane Katrina and how a black family is affected in the American South through a first person narrator. A fifteen years old matriarch, Esch, is the narrator. The story is set in the fictional Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The place is based on the author’s hometown,...

The story of the novel is set in an unnamed country in the Balkans. The book is inspired by the personal relationships and emotions from the author’s own life. However, it is not an autobiographical book. There is no doubt that several events in the story have been inspired by the real life situations....