"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 →
Narayan first broke through with the help of Graham Greene who, upon reading Swaminathan and Tate, took it upon himself to work as Narayan's agent for the book. He was also instrumental in changing the title to the more appropriate Swami and Friends, and in finding publishers for Narayan's next few books. Malgudi is a... Continue Reading →
Tragically, the alienation of anti-hero Holden Caulfield has resonated with society's sociopaths. After assassinating John Lennon in 1980, Mark David Chapman was found by police casually thumbing through a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. Chapman later claimed that the novel was his statement and that it provided the answer to why he'd killed... Continue Reading →
William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52—not bad for an era when the average life expectancy ranged between 30 and 40 years. Despite his swift demise, Shakespeare supposedly had the wherewithal to pen the epitaph over his tomb, which is located inside a Stratford church. Intended to thwart the numerous... Continue Reading →
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, or Plum to his friends, was an enormously popular comic novelist with a career spanning more than 70 years. His tales of Jeeves and Wooster still captivate readers today after almost 4 decades. His father was a British judge in Hong Kong and at the age of three Wodehouse was placed into... Continue Reading →
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