Raja Sharma: 465 books

“The Homecoming” by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter is a two-act play. It was written in 1964. The play was first published in the year 1965. When it was originally produced in Broadway in the year 1967, the play won Tony Award for Best Play. “The Homecoming” has retained its appeal...

Like any other young beautiful girl she could have been with her friends, free from any kind of responsibility, trying to climb the ladder of social pyramid, ultimately to carve a niche for herself somewhere, but it was not something which she could achieve by waving a magic wand, for her individuality did not matter anything in the house she was brought up.

How easily we draw conclusions about others! We kind of become an authority on certain people we know and we boast about the knowledge of his or her character, habits, hobbies, family, and friends, but the truth is, we know very little about that person. One day, suddenly, an unknown aspect of that...

“Maestro” by Peter Goldsworthy was first published in 1989. It is a coming-of-age (bildungsroman) novel that very effectively explores the themes of life and art.Paul Crabbe, a teenage boy, is the central character. The story revolves around the relationship between Paul Crabbe and Herr...

“The Boxcar Children” by Gertrude Chandler Warner was originally published in 1924. It is a children’s book. Gertrude Chandler Warner was a first-grade school teacher in America when she wrote this book.There are, at present, more than one hundred titles in this series. This series is...

She recalls the time when she had been standing behind her husband, Girdhar, in the courtyard of that big mansion. She remembers that the landlord was standing at the window of the second floor. He had come down and said to her, “Do you remember what I had told you?”“Yes,” she had replied.He...

“We the Living” by Ayn Rand was first published in 1936, although the author had finished writing the novel in 1934. The novel tells the story of life in Russia after the Revolution.Ayn Rand is a Russian-American novelist. Through this novel, she gave her first statement against Communism....

“The Blithedale Romance” by Nathaniel Hawthorne was first published in 1852. It happens to be the author’s third major romance book.In the words of Henry James, “The Blithedale Romance” is the lightest, the brightest, and the liveliest of all the unhumorous fiction written by Nathaniel...

"Giovanni's Room" is basically about the complex representations of homosexuality and bisexuality. It is said that when Baldwin completed the manuscript and brought it to the publisher, the publisher told Baldwin to burn the book because it was primarily about homosexuality, a romantic relationship...

“Manhattan Transfer” by John Dos Passos was first published in 1925. There are several separate stories that overlap one another. With these stories, the novel describes the development of urban life that took place in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age.This book is believed...

“A Lost Lady” by Willa Cather was first published in 1923. The story of the novel revolves around Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester.The husband and wife live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad.Although the book has been...

“Miss Lonelyhearts” by Nathanael West was first published in 1933. It was the author’s second novel. It is categorized as an Expressionist Black Comedy. The story is set in the time of Great Depression in New York City.It is said that the author had an opportunity to read some letters,...

The highlight of the story was the noticeable romanticism and it brought McCarthy a lot of public attention. The book got grand success and it won both the U. S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2000 “All the Pretty Horses” was adapted as a film with the...

“Snow Country” by Yasunari Kawabata was first published as a short story in a literary journal in January 1935. It was later developed into a full-length novel.The novel brought the author a lot of name and fame, ensconcing him among the foremost authors in Japan.The novel is considered...