One of the debates surrounding Down and Out is whether it was a piece of factual autobiography or part fiction. Orwell wrote in the Introduction to the 1935 French edition: "I think I can say that I have exaggerated nothing except in so far as all writers exaggerate by selecting. I did not feel that... Continue Reading →
Jane Austen’s first attempt to publish Pride and Prejudice, under the title of First Impressions, occurred in 1797, when she was twenty-one. It was not until 1813 that it, now substantially revised, appeared in print. The title page of the initial edition only said, “by the author of Sense and Sensibility”; the latter book, her... Continue Reading →
Rudyard Kipling, in a letter written and signed by him , in 1895 was put up for auction in 2013. The letter contained a confesses of plagiarism in the 'Jungle Book'. "I am afraid that all that code in its outlines has been manufactured to meet 'the necessities of the case': though a little of... Continue Reading →
The title of the book by Chinua Achebe comes from a poem by William Butler Yeats and it tells an African story from an African perspective. Achebe made it very clear, more than just once, that his novel was partly a rebuke to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, a book that reduced “Africa to the role... Continue Reading →
"I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to live from books. And it was through books that I first realised there were other worlds beyond my own; first imagined what it might be like to be another person; first encountered... Continue Reading →
For a while, Huxley was nearly blind (from an illness) and suffered from poor eyesight for most of his life. Brave New World has many references from Shakespeare. Just like the title of John Green's novel The Fault In Our Stars comes from the Shakespearean play Julius Ceaser, even Brave New World is named after... Continue Reading →
Joanne Harris is best known for her 1999 novel, Chocolat, which focuses on a young single mother running a chocolate shop in a French village. The novel was adapted into a popular film that premiered in 2000. According to her website her hobbies include "mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system”, although... Continue Reading →
Ruskin Bond had forged an intimate relationship with the Himalayas and longed for it despite a stint in England. He is very quite by nature and stays away from the attention of the media in a small hill station in India and when asked once how he feel about living in India he said... Continue Reading →
A Suitable Boy is a 1349 pages long colossus, unparalleled to any book published recently in English language. The novel explores the national and political issues in post-independence period. The book is not based on a single story. Seth demonstrates the concerns of the society in the partitioned India which range from Hindu-Muslim conflicts, academic affairs, intra-family... Continue Reading →
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