In the book, Forrest goes into pace with NASA. On his return trip back to Earth he crash lands on an island populated by cannibals. He survives only because he manages o beat te head cannibal at chess every day! Winston Groom’s novel came out in 1986 and sold around 30,000 copies, before the movie... Continue Reading →
Infinite Jest is an encyclopedic novel, infamous for its length and enumeration of detail and for its digressions that involve endnotes (some of which themselves have footnotes). Wallace's "encyclopedic display of knowledge" incorporates media theory, linguistics, film studies, sport, addiction, science, and issues of national identity. The book is often humorous yet explores melancholy deeply. Infinite... Continue Reading →
Paolini often found himself daydreaming about dragons when he was riding in the car, when he was taking a shower, when he was supposed to be doing his homework. While he was growing up he captured some of his daydreams on paper, writing poems and short stories that featured dragons and were set in magical... Continue Reading →
Character names in her books are often clues to their identities or secrets. For example, Professor Remus Lupin is a werewolf. According to myth, Romulus and Remus were the founders of Rome and were raised by wolves. His last name, Lupin, is derived from the Latin lupus, for wolf, and the English adjective lupine,... Continue Reading →
While working in music industry in New York, Albom developed interest in Journalism. To chase this new interest and to build his portfolio he started writing for Queens Tribune, a weekly newspaper. This experience helped him earn admission in Columbia University to earn masters degree in journalism which was soon followed by an MBA.... Continue Reading →
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 →
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