Raja Sharma: 876 books

“Cold Mountain” by Charles Frazier was first published in 1997. It is a historical novel. It was a highly successful novel and it won the United States National Book Award for Fiction.W. P. Inman is the male protagonist of the novel. He happens to be an injured deserter from the Confederate...

“A Raisin In the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is a very popular play. It was first launched on Broadway in 1959.The title of the play “A Raisin In the Sun” is taken from Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” which is also known as “A Dream Deferred.”The story of the play revolves...

“Jazz” by Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winning American writer, was first published in the year 1992. It is a highly successful and widely acclaimed historical novel.The major part of the story is set in Harlem, New York City, during the 1920s. The narrative very interestingly and skillfully...

It is said that Carson McCullers had initially planned to write a story about a girl who happens to be in love with her piano teacher, but she suddenly found something which compelled her to change it into a full length novel.The story is set in the month of August 1944. The time is towards...

“The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair was first published in 1906. Through this novel the author has depicted the severely harsh conditions in the lives of immigrants in Chicago, the United States, and how they were exploited in most of the big industrialized cities.Sinclair exposed several health...

“The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia” by Samuel Johnson was first published In April 1759. The book was originally titled “The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale.”It is said that Samuel Johnson had written it in only one week because he needed money to pay for his mother’s funeral....

It is a coming-of-age epistolary novel that is basically focused on an introverted teenage boy named Charlie.Charlie is the protagonist and narrator of the novel; he is quite introvert. The story describes Charlie’s experiences in a series of letters which are written to a person who is a...

How aesthetically realistic and imaginative a writer can be is obvious in the works of John Steinbeck, one of the most famous American writers. His keen social perception and sympathetic humor distinguish him from several other contemporary writers. Owing to his creative power he could very...

The story is set in the near future. The place was formerly the United States of America, but now it is called the Republic of Gilead. It happens to be a theocratic military dictatorship. The Republic lies within the borders of what was formerly the US.As the book opens, an organized terrorist...

“Maus” by Art Spiegelman was first published as a serial between 1980 and 1991. It was finally published as a complete graphic novel. It was the first graphic novel to have won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992.The novel presents the author interviewing his father, a Holocaust survivor, about his...

The story of the novel is set ten years before the Civil Rights Movement began. It is set in the year 1948. The African-Americans had to face a lot of problems during this period but they had their own successes as well, but the dramatic events of the Civil Rights Movement overshadowed all that. However,...

“What Is the What” by Dave Eggers was first published in 2006. The novel is subtitled “The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng.”The story in the novel is based on the real life story of Valentino Achak Deng. The story describes his struggles and how he overcame them. Achak Deng was...

Not many female writers have contributed so much to the world literature as Jane Austen has. She is undoubtedly one of the most famous female writers. She has been a favorite of not only female but male readers and even today her books are sold in large numbers. One can only marvel at her genius...

The author describes how he was brainwashed by the army and they taught him the use of guns and drugs.In one year with the army he experienced a lot of bloodshed and violence in which he also took part.When he was sixteen years old, he was removed from his army unit by UNICEF. He was...