Raja Sharma: 465 books

“The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield was first published in 1922. It is said to be one of the best short stories written by the author.The story was first published on 4th of February, 1922, in the Saturday Westminster Gazette. On 18th of February, 1922, it was again published in Weekly...

“The Vicar of Wakefield” was first published in 1766. It is subtitled “A Tale.” It is believed that the novel was written between 1761 and 1762.Among the Victorian novels, “The Vicar of Wakefield” is considered to be one of the most popular and widely read novels in the eighteenth...

The most significant theme of the novel is war. Several other themes such as survival, cooperation, perseverance, community, and hope have been explored very efficiently in the novel.The most of the action in the story takes place after the nuclear attack. After that attack, the characters...

“Ghosts” by Henrik Ibsen was written in 1881. The play was first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. The play was staged in America by a Danish company that was on the tour of the United States of America.Most of the plays written by Henrik Ibsen present a scathing commentary on the nineteenth...

“Desire Under the Elms” by Eugene O’Neill was written in 1924. It is now considered one of the classic plays written by the playwright.Just like “Mourning Becomes Electra,” the present play happens to be an attempt by the playwright to adapt plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy...

The story of the novel revolves around the titular character and protagonist, Yuri Zhivago. He is a doctor and poet.The book primarily tells the story of the protagonist’s love for two women and at the same time tells about the events taking place in Russia. The protagonist was caught in the tumultuous history of Russia in the twentieth century.

“Kokoro” by Natsume Soseki was first published in 1914. The novel was originally published as a serial in the Japanese newspaper ‘Asahi Shinbun.’The title “Kokoro” literally means ‘heat,’ but it can also have many different meanings. It can also be translated as ‘feeling’...

“Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn was first published in 2012. It is a thriller novel. In a few days after its publication, the book became the Best Seller on the New York Times List.Nick Dunne is the central character. The entire suspense of the novel comes from Nick and whether he has his...

“Paper Towns” by John Green was first published on 16th of October 2008. It is the author’s third young adult novel. It is a coming-of-age novel.Quentin “Q” Jacobsen is the protagonist of the novel. He searches his childhood love and neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. Ben, Radar, and...

“The Way of the World” by the English playwright William Congreve is considered as one of the best Restoration comedies. It first premiered in March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.When the play was first launched, it was not very well received by the audience. However, it...

“Under the Net” was the first novel written by Iris Murdoch. It was published in 1954. The story is set in London and Paris. The story of the novel revolves around a young struggling writer named Jake Donaghue. Owing to its philosophical and the picaresque, “Under the Net” is...

“Chinese Cinderella” by Adeline Yen Mah was first published in 1999. The book is subtitled “The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter.”The author is a Chinese-American physician. In this book the author describes her own experiences while growing up in China during the Second World War.She...

“Pudd’nhead Wilson” by Mark Twain was first published in 1894. This novel had been initially published in the form of a series in The Century Magazine between 1893 and 1894.It was the time the Reconstruction had totally failed in the United States. Reconstruction was the process of reintegrating...

The characters of the Tillerman children in “Homecoming” are inspired from the author’s childhood experiences. She had been almost deprived of the privation. She molds most of the characters in this novel on the basis of her experiences during her childhood.She was the second of the six...