Raja Sharma: 876 books

“The Black Prince” by Iris Murdoch was first published in the year 1973. It was the author’s fifteenth novel. The title alludes to Hamlet. It is regarded as one of the best novels written by Iris Murdoch. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year of its publication. Like...

“Monkey” by the Confucian scholar Wu Ch’eng-en was written during the Ming Dynasty in China. The book was written in the sixteenth century. The book is subtitled “A Folk Tale of China. It is said to have been translated by Arthur Waley.The book was originally published in 1942. The...

It is a children’s novel. The major characters in the novel are children. The story is set in a small college town in California. The story revolves around a sustained imaginative game created by children in a storage yard.April, Melanie, Marshall, and Elizabeth are the four children who...

“An Abundance of Katherines” by John Green was first published in 2006. It is a young adult novel. The novel was a finalist for the Michael L. Printz Award.The story revolves around the central character Colin. He happens to be a child prodigy. He definitely has a type. He happens to have...

“On the Beach” by Nevil Shute was first published in 1957. It is a post-apocalyptic novel. The author had moved to Australia from Britain before writing the present novel.The story is about an impending disaster after a nuclear war that happens to have taken place one year before. It describes...

“The Sandman” by E. T. A. Hoffmann was first published in German in 1816. The German title of the story is “Der Sandmann.”This story appeared in the author’s collection called “The Night Pieces” in 1817. The story has been interpreted by various authors, scholars, and reviewers...

“The Body of Christopher Creed” by Carol Plum-Ucci was first published in 2000. It is a young adult novel.The story revolves around a high school student and how he attempts to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a classmate.The book was the winner of the Michael L. Printz...

“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman was first published in 1973. It is a fantasy romance novel. The book was written and published in the same year.It is set in the same modern time. Before the author started writing the present book, he had been writing screenplays and books for many...

“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in 1838. It happens to be the author’s only complete novel.The story revolves around the young titular character Arthur Gordon Pym. He goes and boards a whaling ship called the Grampus. He goes through...

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” was produced in the year 2004. It is an American romantic science-fiction comedy drama film.The story revolves around an estranged couple who happen to have erased each other from their memories. The screenplay is written by Charlie Kaufman and the...

Mosses Herzog is the protagonist and the central character of the novel “Herzog.” Though the story has a narrative plot, most of the important action develops in the mind of the protagonist.Moses Herzog is a middle aged man; he is a college professor; he has temporarily become the resident...

“Lucky Jim” by Kingsley Amis was first published in 1954. It was the first novel of the author and it won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction.The story is assumed to be set sometime around 1950. Jim, the titular character and protagonist of the novel, follows the exploits of the eponymous...

“In Our Time” by Ernest Hemingway was first published in 1925. It happens to be the author’s first collection of short stories. The title of the book has been derived from, “Give us peace in our time, O Lord,” from the English Book of Common Prayer.The book had a complex publication...

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