Raja: 563 books

Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...

She came back into her room and sat in one corner. She recalled that in the first year after their marriage they used to talk and laugh together but in the recent years the dialogue between them had only been limited to the phrases like ‘I am going’, ‘breakfast is ready’, ‘when will you...

It is a satire that shows future and dystopian Western world that has a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence. The story is a kind of exploration into human nature, their free will to choose between good and evil, and desolation of free will that proves to be a solution to the negative...

“Midaq Alley” by Naguib Mahfouz was first published in English in 1966. It is the English translation of the novel “Zuqaq al Midaq.”The book “Zuqaq al Midaq” was first published in Arabic, in Egypt, in the year 1847. Midaq Ally is a back street in Cairo, Egypt. The place teems with...

“The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” by Olaudah Equiano was first published in 1789. It is the autobiography of the author.The book is often categorized differently. The scholars and critics have often argued the variety of styles of the narrative. It is generally...

I started excavated the sleeping ideas and decided to give them the shapes of essays, articles, and stories to help my students develop the art of writing. In this series I am presenting random writings which are definitely going to help school and college students if you are pursuing your...

“A Room with a View” by E. M. Forster was first published in 1908. The story revolves around a young woman living in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Most of the story is set in England and Italy, and it is both a romance and a critique of the English society at the beginning...

After about half an hour he was back in her room. He was relieved when he found her soundly asleep. Now there was a glow on her pink face. He thought that her beauty and grace surpassed the beauty of all the fairies and nymphs he had painted for so many years. He was tempted to touch her face but...

It is a firm Hindu belief that Gods take on human forms from time to time to reform the society by their deeds which become firm examples for the people. In wonderful long stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata, the God takes on human form in order to heal a breach in the order of society, and thus the...

New Reformatted EditionThis book is a compilation of classic short stories by five great Indian writers Raja Rao, Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, Dr. Mulk Raj Anand and Khushwant Singh. Though not necessarily representative of the authors’ complete works, the stories have been carefully chosen to...

This is the story of a woman who, like millions of other downtrodden women in Asia, especially in India, had to go through the experiences which need a courageous approach to narrate. I have tried to present everything in the realistic light, without trying to unnecessarily fictionalize it with ostentatious...

This "is not a political book," Anthony Lewis writes in his foreword. "Yet in a hundred different ways it is political.... Shehadeh shatters the stereotype many Americans have of Palestinians. Hath not a Palestinian senses, affections, passions?" This revealing memoir of a father-son...

“Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom was first published in 1997. It is a memoir that has also been adapted into a television movie of the same name.In the year 2000, the book was on the top of the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestsellers list. Later in the year, Mitch Albom narrated the...

When we come across a text, it needs to be read, understood, and interpreted. To a layman it can be a simple task, because he happens to be basically concerned with the message, meaning, or the story of the given text, but to a student of literature and linguistic, it happens to be more than merely...