Students Academy: 216 books

Once you leave your own country to look for better opportunities in the other countries of the world, the memories of the native land begins to diminish because there is so much more to see in this world.We had left our country about twenty years ago. My husband had found a job in Kuwait. Having...

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time India” by Sherman Alexie was first published in 2007. The book was illustrated by Ellen Forney.It is a young adult novel that has won several literary awards since its publication. It was Alexie’s first young adult novel. Alexie is a screenwriter,...

“All But My Life” by Gerda Weissmann Kllein was first published in 1957. It happens to be the memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. The time period described in the memoir is from September 3 1939 to September 1945. In the year 1946, she moved to Buffalo, New York,...

The story of the novel focuses on a small fraction of humanity that has got immense psychic powers. The people of that fraction call those powers “The Ability.”It transpires that those powers can be used to fully control people from a distance to make them do any physical action, even murders.The...

"The Birthday Party" is set in a boardinghouse. The play is focused mainly on Stanley, the only boarder at the boarding house.Petey, the owner of the boardinghouse, and Meg, his wife, seem to be very complacent with their life and their boarder.The action of the play begins when two...

“The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner was first published in 1929. It was the fourth novel written by William Faulkner. This novel is known for a number of narrative styles which the author has employed. The literary technique known as stream of consciousness is also noticeable in the novel.“The...

“Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov was first published in 1962. It is a postmodern novel. In the opening of the novel there is a 999 line poem which is titled “Pale Fire” written by the fictional John Shade.There is a lengthy forward and long commentary by a neighbour and academic colleague...

“Glengarry Glen Ross” by David Mamet was first performed in 1983. The play first premiered at the National Theatre in London on 21st of September, in 1983.In the following year, 1983, “Glengarry Glen Ross” won the Pulitzer Prize. The play covers the time period of two days. The story...

“The Caucasian Chalk Circle” by Bertolt Brecht was written in 1944. This play is a noticeable example of the playwright’s epic theatre.The play presents a parable that revolves around a peasant girl. She rescues a baby and proves herself a better mother than the baby’s rich natural...

“Fathers and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev was first published in 1862. It is generally considered the author’s best novel.Most conservative Russians criticized the novel when it was first published, thinking that the author had glorified nihilism through the character of Bazarov.On the...

The story revolves around the major characters Florentino Ariza, Fermina, Daza, and Dr. Juvenal Urbino. There are several flashback scenes and numerous repetitions, which with the element of foreshadowing makes the narrative highly unconventional yet very emphatic.The main theme is the struggle...

“Long Day’s Journey Into Night” by Eugene O’Neill was first published in 1956, although it had been written in 1941 and 1942.This four-act play is considered to be the playwright’s masterwork. When it was first launched, it proved to be an instant success.The playwright, Eugene...

It is a highly successful novel, admired by both critics and readers. Around seven million copies are said to have been sold up to this day around the world.Bruno, the central character of the novel, becomes a victim by the end of the novel, whereas his family was the participant in the horror...

“Thrones, Dominations” by D. L. Sayers is a mystery novel. It is also one of the series of the novel which present detective Lord Peter Wimsey as the central figure.Sayers had started writing this novel but she did not complete it. The handwritten draft of the novel remained as fragments...