Raja Sharma: 876 books

“Homeless Bird” by Gloria Whelan was first published in 2000. Soon after its publication, the book became very popular. It was the winner of “Books for the Teen Age Award” in 2001 and “National Book Award” in 2000. The story revolves around a thirteen-year-old girl named Koly. She...

“The Sovereignty and Goodness of God” by Mary Rowlandson is also titled “The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” The book was first published in 1682. It is said to be one of America’s first bestsellers.Mary Rowlandson was a colonial American woman. Once, Native Americans...

“Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson was first published in 2004. It was the second novel written by the author. Her first novel was “Housekeeping” and it had been published in 1980.When the novel “Gilead” was published, it was greatly admired by both critics and readers. The book was...

The author very skillfully uses the local speech, and presents the local customs. He criticizes the small town locale. The satire in the novel is double-edged: it is aimed at the simple townspeople and at the same time it satires the superficial intellectuals who look down on them.The detailed...

“The Beggar Opera” is said to have had the longest run in theatre history up to that time. It is said to be Gay’s greatest success and it has been played ever since its first performance. “The Beggar’s Opera” was revived in 1920, and it had phenomenal success. The play ran...

Courtship, humility, patience, violence, revolution, sacrifice, human rights, apprenticeships, and the increasing tension between the Loyalist and Patriots are some of the major themes of the novel.There is also the inclusion of the Boston Tea Party in the events which are described in the...

“A Yellow Raft in Blue Water” by Michael Dorris was first published in 1987. This novel is written from the view points of Royana, Christine, and Aunt Ida, the major characters in the novel. These three narrators keep on exchanging viewpoints between different parts of the novel. The...

The novel "The Idiot" revolves around the central character Prince Myshkin. He is very innocent and naive, but he happens to arrive in St. Petersburg society which teems with morally corrupt and deceptive people.He continues to be compassionate towards all the people around him, but in the...

A person without fun in his life is simply existing, for he misses a great deal of life. We all keep on looking for amusement in one form or other, however, sources of being amused happen to be different.The fun that can be derived from funny sentences of quotes is subtle, and only a few privileged...

There are several words and terms in the game of table tennis which might be unknown to casual table tennis player. If you are an enthusiast and seriously taking up table tennis, this is the dictionary for you. All the entries in this dictionary are followed by pictures and their definitions.

On one occasion in the moments of jest Castro said, "If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal."

Sometimes, a man and a woman are involved in the stages of sexual arousal to draw a kind of satisfaction which is more of love than ejaculation of semen of orgasm of a woman. If the man and woman actually want to enter the final act of sexual arousal, it often leads to intercourse and ends in an orgasm....

The one eyed young Sikh was going to become a sworn enemy of the Durrani leaders in the following years. Ranjit Singh started preparing his own army. It did not take him a very long time to conquer the other misls of Punjab. Now Ranjit Singh was the force to reckon with. The entire Sikh Community...

The book was first published in 1955 in Paris, and then it was published in New York in 1958. It was originally written in Russian language, but it was later translated into English by Vladimir Nabokov himself.For several decades the novel remained in discussion among literary circles all over...