If it were not for an 8-year-old girl named Alice, the world may never have seen Rowling's Harry Potter series. Nigel Newton is the founder of Bloomsbury, a publishing house that was, at the time, very small and had barely gotten started. He reluctantly accepted Rowling's manuscript but did not read it himself, instead handing it over... Continue Reading →
Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain. Twain is the archaic word for 'Two'. He chose this name after having spent his youth on the Mississippi riverside where when the leadsman's line sank to the two--fathom knot, meaning the boat had a safe twelve feet of water beneath it, he called out,... Continue Reading →
The book is about nine Indians (one in present-day Pakistan) and their tryst with religion and spirituality. For the launch of the book in India some of the characters in the book performed for the audience, with one of character's Hari Das from Kerala leading the Theyyam troupe and Paban Das Baul from Bengal leading the Baul singers. Source: Nine Lives on Wikipedia Nine... Continue Reading →
Rand, in The Fountainhead, has measured the progress of mankind by buildings and scientific innovations it produces. Rand’s adoring treatment of the New York skyline signals her glorification of industry and technology. It is a reminder of ambition and goals when she shows her characters gazing at the skyline of the city. Rand uses the... Continue Reading →
Chomsky remains a popular speaker, particularly among progressives and liberals, and his political views continue to spark controversy. Most notably, he has advocated for a Palestinian state, heavily criticizing Israeli treatment of Palestinians. He often draws on his own experience of anti-Semitism to emphasize that opposing Israeli political choices is not anti-Semitic. Source: Noam Chomsky... Continue Reading →
The oak-paneled bed is the piece of furniture which is the symbolic center of Wuthering Heights – both the novel and the house – and provides the setting for two of the novel's most dramatic events. Lockwood, the narrator, who first finds refuge in the bed, increasingly starts having nightmares. As he later finds out,... Continue Reading →
The title had a journey of its own. In Turkey the novel is called Iskender, which means Alexander. However I could not name it Alexander in English as people would have thought it was a novel about Alexander the Great. So instead of focusing on a character I focused on the theme and chose Honour. It is... Continue Reading →
All of Dickens' major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments. A full length novel was out of the price range of most of his readers, but a monthly installment, could be sold for a shilling and was thus, affordable. Dickens wrote each installment with this type of publication in mind, many of... Continue Reading →
As opposed to the world-view of Afghan women, the book And the Mountains Echoed, has a character Nila Wahdati who is a representation of Khaled Hosseini's memory of the Afghan women he saw when he was a teenager. "There would be really striking women in short skirts," he recalls. "Beautiful, very outspoken, temperamental, endlessly – in my... Continue Reading →
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