Raja Sharma: 465 books

“Wide Sargasso Sea” appears to be acting as a prequel to Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte. The story of the novel “Wide Sargasso Sea” revolves around Antoinette Cosway (who was known as Bertha Mason in Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre”). Antoinette Cosway happens to be a white Creole...

“Death and the King’s Horseman” by Wole Soyinka was first published in 1975. The story of the play is based on a real incident.The incident had taken place in Nigeria during the British colonial rule. There was an important native chief who was going to commit ritual suicide, but he was...

“From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” by E. L. Konigsburg was first published in 1967.It is said that during the author’s lifetime she had been inspired by numerous sources.The author, E. L. Konigsburg, used to leave her children at the galleries of the Met while...

“Bread Givers” by Anzia Yezierska was first published in 1925. The story of the novel revolves around the growth of a Jewish American girl. Her immigrant parents are originally from Poland. The story presents the complete details of her growing up in that house-hold. The story opens with...

The author had a very difficult childhood. It was full of prejudice and ostracism and there were several reasons for that. There were several things which were against her in that prejudiced society. First of all, she was black. She was the child of a single mother, and lastly she was very outspoken...

“Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay, was first published in September 2006. The book presents the story through two parallel plots.In the first plot there is a girl named Sarah Starzynski. She is a ten-year old Jewish girl. She is born in Paris. During the Vel’ Hiv Roundup, she and her...

“Iola Leroy” by Francis Harper was first published in 1892. It was also titled “Shadows Uplifted.”It is known as one of the first novels published by an African-American female writer. The novel very dutifully follows what is known as the ‘sentimental’ conventions of late 19th century...

“Gulliver’s Travels” by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift was first published in the year 1726. The original title of the book was ‘Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.’ “Gulliver’s...

“Beloved” by the Nobel Prize winning American writer Toni Morrison was first published in 1987. The story is set during and after the Civil War in America, between 1861 and 1865. An African-American slave, Margaret Garner, is the source of inspiration for the story. Margaret Garner...

The story is set in the period after the Great Depression in the year 1936. The place is Pittsburg. The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the infamous piano. The play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have...

Unpredictability in a woman’s nature is actually the definite result of the accumulated experiences and emotions which she silently bears over the years. When she takes such a step, they say that either she has gone mad, or she is unfaithful, but most men never ever pause to ponder over the predicament...

Death can disturb anyone but an emotion goes with the death,-the age of the deceased. A child’s death arouses pity and affliction because it has not seen anything yet. An old person’s death produces sorrow and relief that the tired body has got salvation. But if a young person dies, we are shocked; we are not ready to accept it; we generally don’t easily believe it.

The play “Much Ado about Nothing” by William Shakespeare is a hilarious comedy. The play revolves around two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero. Benedick and Beatrice are playfully arguing, talking a lot and declaring their scorn for love, marriage, and each other. On...

“The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green was first published in January 2012. It is the author’s sixth published novel.Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen years old cancer patient, is the narrator of the novel. The story revolves around this central character. Hazel is compelled by her parents...