Students Academy: 216 books

“The Rover” by Aphra Behn first premiered in the year 1677. The play is also titled “The Banish’d.”Behn used to work as a spy for Charles II against the Dutch. Unfortunately, the king did not pay her expenses and it resulted in the loss of her meager income.After her job as...

“The Misanthrope” by French writer Moliere was first performed on 4th of June 1666 at the Theatre du Palais-Royal, Paris, by the King’s Players.It is also titled “The Cantankerous Lover.” The French title of the play is “Le Misanthrope.” It is a 17th century comedy of manners...

Wolf Messing, one of the most famous mystics of all times, was born on 10th of September 1899 in the town of Gora Kalwaria. This place is located about twenty-six kilometers southeast of Warsaw, Poland.His date of birth has always been controversial, but it is generally assumed that he was...

During the month of June, in 2011, it was extremely hot in New Delhi. It is generally hot in June and July, but that year it was almost unbearable. We decided to go to Manali by car.We began our journey in the evening, at about 5:00 pm from Delhi. We travelled whole night, and the following...

“The Wanderer” is also titled “Female Difficulties.” It was published in the month of March in the year 1814 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. It is one of the most popular of the historic novels. It has the Gothic overtones, and story is set during the 1790s. The story...

The short stories and novels written by Herman Melville have kept readers amused for several decades. He was a well travelled person, so consequently a keen observer of human behavior. His works have been popular in all age groups of readers. The most unique feature of his writing is his command...

“Holes” by Louis Sachar was first published in 1998. It is a young adult mystery comedy novel. It was a highly acclaimed book, and it won the U. S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in the year of its publication. It also won Newbery Medal for the year’s most distinguished...

“Dead End In Norvelt” by Jack Gantos was first published in 2011. It is an autobiographical novel. The story revolves around a boy named Jack Gantos. It also describes the author’s childhood in Norvelt, Pennsylvania.The book was awarded Newbery Medal in 2012 by the American Library Association....

“Herland” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a highly successful utopian novel. However, when it was first published, it was not given so much attention. It was first published as a serial in 1915. The novel was first published in a book form only in the year 1979.The novel depicts a society...

“Anthem” by Ayn Rand was first published in England in 1938. It is a dystopian fiction novella. Rand had written the book in 1937. The story is set in the time period in some unspecified future date. The novel presents mankind in another dark age which is characterized by collectivism,...

“Perfume” by Patrick Suskind was first published in 1985. It is subtitled “The Story of a Murderer.”It is a literary historical cross-genre novel which had been originally published in German language. As the title suggests, the novel has much to do with perfume and sense of smell.The...

“Persuasion” of often described as a ‘perfect novel.’ It is often said that the reader of the book can easily judge by himself or herself whether the book is worthy of praise. There is perfection which definitely deserves to be praised.It is said that once Austen wrote a letter to her...

“The Playboy of the Western World” by Irish playwright John Millington Synge is a three-act play.The play was first performed on 26th of January, in 1907, at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.The play is set in Michael James Flaherty’s public house in County Mayo, on the west coast of...

“Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx is a short story. This story was first published in The New Yorker on 13th October, 1997. It was subsequently published in its expanded version in Proulx’s 1999 collection of short stories, “Close Range: Wyoming Stories.” In 1998, “Brokeback...