Raja Sharma: 876 books

The story revolves around the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The people living in their community are quite fascinated by the acts of these five sisters because they can’t explain for their acts.There are five daughters in the family and they are Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and...

“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....

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18th of July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata, South Africa. In those days it used to be a part of Cape Province of South Province.This great leader, politician, and anti-apartheid revolutionary has made his place in the hearts of billions of people...

“War and Peace” by one of the most famous and respected Russian authors, Leo Tolstoy, was first published in 1869. It is an epic novel and often considered to be one of the most significant works of world literature.Although most of the works of Leo Tolstoy are highly admired and most widely...

The story revolves around the death of the title character Ilyich Golovin. He dies at the age of 45. Ilyich happens to be a high-court judge in the 19th century Russia. On the surface it appears that he is living a very good life, but he has very strained relationship with his wife.While hanging...

The story is about a Syrian-American Muslim, Abdulrahman Zeitoun. He was born and brought up in Syria.He worked for a few years as an apprentice in Jableh, the port city in Syria. After that he worked for twenty years as a muscleman, engineer, and fisherman. His job as a fisherman provided...

The play presents a vivid and frequently violent picture of lust and ambition in an Italian court. The tone of the play is satiric and cynicism of Jacobean tragedy is quite noticeable.Some time before the restoration of the theatres in 1660, “The Revenger’s Tragedy” lost its appeal and...

The entire play revolves around the meeting of cab drivers who happen to be planning a labor strike. Through the dramatic device of framing, the playwright makes the audience a part of the meeting.Before this play, Odets had written several other plays but they were not produced. “Waiting...

As the story begins, we are introduced to Marcus Yallow. He is a seventeen years old techno whiz, to be more precise, a hacker, from San Francisco. One day, Frederick Benson, the vice Principal of Caesar Chavez High School accuses Marcus of hacking into the school. It becomes obvious that Marcus...

It is notable that “The Woman in White” is said to be one of the first mystery novels written in English. It is also said to be one of the first and finest novels in the sensation novel genre. The story has multiple narrators. Since Collins had had legal training, he draws upon it. Almost all the main characters, excpet for Laura, Anne, and Percival, are the narrators.

The narrative covers the time period between 1929 and 1942. There are altogether eight highly engaging episodes, or short stories. It is a kind of humorous novel that describes the annual summer trips that a boy and his sister make to rural Illinois where their eccentric grandmother, Grandma...

“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,...