Wuthering Heights

  by Emily Brontë

• The novel has been a source of inspiration for the filmmakers, television producers, opera houses for their musical interpretations and much more in the years 1939 to 2011.
• In the year 1939, a film was made as the adaptation of novels and won New York Film Critics Circle Award as the best film.
• It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1939.
• In the year 2011 a graphical version of the novel has been published and the version has made its nomination for the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards.
• In the year 2012, the novel has been voted by the students of more than 170 schools across the United Kingdom as the most popular novel.
• Subject of Novel: Gothic, Romantic Novel.
• Characters in Novel : Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Nelly Dean, Isabella Linton, Hindley Earnshaw, Hareton Earnshaw,Cathy Linton, Linton Heathcliff, Joseph, Lockwood, Frances, Kenneth, Zillah
• No of pages: 260
• Date of publish: December 1847
• Publisher: Thomas Cautley Newby

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering heights is an intense demonic love story between the two lovers Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Heathcliff was an adopted child from the Catherine’s father. After the death of Catherine’s father Heathcliff was bullied by her brothers and soon reduced to the status of a servant. He was so in love with Catherine but Catherine chose someone else to marry who was socially acceptable and stable in every way . He got a heart broken, mad and this event has made Heathcliff crazy and disillusioned.

The intense and shattered Heathcliff ran away to establish himself, to earn money and become rich and poise. Soon he came back in the form of rich and a dignitary. He wanted to take revenge from the two families he thought made his life miserable and terrible. The novel is completely a gripping, intense, revengeful and a misery and pain of a lost love.

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Ulysses

  

by James Joyce 

The novel has been a great part of the history and adapted by the theatre plays, films, television series and in audio recordings 1958-2012.

• Subject of Novel: Modernist Novel.
• Characters in Novel:
• No of pages: 632-1000 depending upon the edition.
• Date of publish: 2, Febraury, 1922
• Publisher: Sylvia Beach

The novel Ulysses was considered among the dirt and ostentatious work and somehow and an unreadable book. It was a time when these types of stories were considered as dirty writing. But now these types of stories are labeled under the modernist writing creation. He It is basically the story of a husband and wife and their extra relations being in the legal bonds with each other. The character Bloom who was having a wife named Molly who was a singer by profession. She was having an intimate relationship with her colleague Blaze Boylan. Bloom was having a sense that his wife and Blaze are having the intense relationship, in spite they are having a daughter. Who was sent to study the photography.

The Bloom often had an intuition of suspecting Molly, when she gave birth to a son Rudy over ten years. Rudy died after 11 days of his birth and Rudolph who was the father of Bloom, who was suspected dead by a suicide attempt. It is a story that makes a man how to live, how to be young and enthusiastic, how to control the storms that may ruin your relationships, the intimate and extramarital relationships that may drive you crazy. Bloom was the most lovable, down to earth and emotional person who end up in the thorn full and broken world. The story is todays story, the story of a modern society, the story of patience and love. 

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Great Expectations

  

 by Charles Dickens 

Chales Dickens is one of the most famous writers of the decade, his masterpiece has been a source of inspiration for the people of art and literature. The novel has been filmed several times for big and small screens in the years 1917, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1954, 1959, 1967, 1974, 1981, 1983, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2011, 2012. The book has also been published many times as the revised editions.

• Subject of Novel: Realistic Fiction, Social Criticism
• Characters in Novel : Philip Pirrip, Joe Gargery, Mrs. Joe Gargery, Mr. Pumblechook, Miss Havisham, Estella, Matthew Pocket,Herbert Pocket, Cousin Raymond, Georgiana,Sarah Pocket
• No of pages: 400
• Date of publish: 1861 in three volumes
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall

The story is a magnum opus by Charles Dickens revolves around the boy who was an orphan used to live with her stubborn and bossy sister with a humble and cheerful brother in law. One day pip was sitting in the cemetery of his parents and died brother and sisters found a ran prisoner who wanted pip to steal food for him. That was something outrageous Pip has ever done. Then the story moves to the love of Pip, Estella whom he met in the home where he works. But he was not of her stature. He wanted to be a gentleman. Soon he received a big amount of money. He went to London for higher studies to become a dignitary to become at the Estella status. He thought Miss Havisham had helped Pip secretly as she has seen the love in the eyes of Pip for Estella. Pip started enjoying his life in London and forgets about the good deed his brother in law has done to him. The story is miraculous by knowing the original person who was helping Pip was someone else he has ever expected. The morals go through struggle, hardships, sorrows, regret and yet heart trenching in its own way.

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Emma

    by Jane Austen

Emma has been enriched with the mind blowing achievement in the past decade. This novel has made its special appearance in the eyes of films in the year 1995, 1996 and 2010. Many times it has been privileged by the television in the years 1948, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1972, 1996, 2009. The stage performances have also been enriched by the novel’s adaptation in the years 1991, 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010, 1012

• Subject of Novel: Fiction, Comedy
• Characters in Novel: Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley, Mr. Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Harriet Smith, Philip Elton, Augusta Elton, Mrs. Anne Weston,Mr. Weston, Miss Bates, Mr. Henry Woodhouse, Isabella Knightley,  John Knightley 
• No of pages: 384
• Date of publish: December, 1815
• Publisher: John Murray

Emma is a story of a rich girl who used to live with her father. Love to spend money on her and on her friends.She was a brand conscious girl who used to do matchmaking. Sometimes she does fail in making the couples but she was in her own cuckoo land with her match making stuff. She was never interested to fall in love. As love has never been her consideration. She was influential in her own way. Making her friends to realize to change and adapt the societal way of living. A Shopaholic girl who made her influential friends to make relationships with the state of art men around her. Mr Knightly who was an old friend of Emma. Mr knightly is kind of an only character who can hold Emma and tell her, that she should stop being obsessive of this matchmaking. He used to scold Emma and tell her not to make such fictional couples who cannot survive with each other. Soon she escapes in her own created web. When her friend has an affection for Mr. Knightly. The story is comical on the contrary full of emotions.

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A Tale of Two Cities

  

There are plenty of films filmed throughout the century an an adaptation of the novel A tale of two cities as silent movies, as films, as a television series, in opera musical shows and much more in the years, 1911, 1917, 1922, 1927, 1935, 1958, 1980

• Subject of Novel: Historical Social criticism
• Characters in Novel: Sydney Carton, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Dr. Alexandre Manette, Monsieur Ernest Defarge, Madame Therese Defarge, Jacques One, Two, and Three, The Vengeance, The Mender of Roads, Jarvis Lorry, Miss Pross, The Marquis St. Evrémonde, The Elder and his wife, John Barsad (real name Solomon Pross), Roger Cly, Jerry Cruncher, Young Jerry Cruncher, Mrs. Cruncher, Mr. C.J. Stryver, The Seamstress, Théophile Gabelle, Gaspard, Monseigneur, A peasant boy and his sister 
• No of pages: 304
• Date of publishing: 1859
• Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall Publisher

The novel has a mood that moves with the grim and serious as it was the presentation of harsh and sever reality that was happening in the War under the French revolution. The oppressions and the harshness a common man has gone through the War was depicted in the same way as it happened by Charles Dickens. The horrible scenes of War and appalled people with the bloodshed, the novel have its own extremes of emotions and fright that has caused to people even if they were innocent. Every character has its own importance explaining the grief they have gone through, even it would be husband and wife, the lovers or the relationship of a father and a daughter. The story started with the grief of a daughter Lucie Manette, where she heard that her father who was a doctor, and was missing from last 18 years is alive and was imprisoned in spite of being innocent. When she went to Paris to take him, she found that he has lost his memory. Chales Dickens did not leave any detail of pain and violence and explained the scenario in every possible detail

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Snowdrops

  

by A.D. Miller

• The Times (Kate Saunders): The story is convincing and a full gripping Novel.
• The Seattle Times (Adam Woog): A.D Miller has given the organized writing piece for the life of Moscow of the glitzy era. The Independent (Leyla Sanai): The debut novel is electrifying, catchy and a heart touching view of the dark life of Moscow and the human.
• The Financial Times (Adrian Turpin): A. D Miller has shown the alluring and exciting portrayal of the life with no fear and anxiety but deception.
• Subject of Novel: Fiction, Action Thriller, Suspense.
• Characters in Novel : Nicholas Plat, Masha and Katya, Tatiana.
• No of pages: 272.
• Date of publish: January 1, 2011.
• Publisher: Atlanta Books.

The debut masterpiece by A.D Miller is highly acclaimed novel among the readers and the reviewers. This is a story of a man who was enjoying his free life laundering without money and parties Nicholas who was a lawyer. He gave up his life for the dream life he wanted to live with money, excitement and partying all the time. He has no concern with what he was doing, he just wanted the money he was earning and spending in the way he wants in Moscow. Moscow is known for its thrill, underworld life, social betting, fraud and much more. It is a story full of thrill, breathtaking events and suspense about the crime, corruption and underworld life that prevails in Moscow. Eventually the man who wanted a free life who gave up his career as a lawyer for the sake of fun, thrill and ecstasy and got indulged in all these activities and never thought, if he was doing something wrong. Finally Nicholas who was flying high in the clouds met an enchanting woman with an eye catching personality Masha, protected her from the purse snatcher and fall for her. The novel has a suspense storyline, while predicting who is truthful and who is faking for love, lust and money.

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Pride and Prejudice

  

by Jane Austen

• The novel is considered as the 1st ever best novel which is an exemplar.
• Till to date more than 20 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide.
• Subject of Novel: Novel of Manners/ Satire
• Characters in Novel : Elizabeth Bennet, Mr Darcy, Mr Bennet, Mrs Bennet, Jane Bennet, Marcy Bennet, Catherine Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Charles Bingely, Caroline Bingely, George Wickham, William Collins, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, Georgiana Darcy, Charlotte Lucas
• No of pages: 272
• Date of publish: 28 January 1813
• Publisher: T. Egerton, Whitehall

The novel is one of the finest masterpieces with the fun and witty element in it. The portrayal of the characters is superb. As every character has its own importance, explained and pulled through the story very well. The story is about the family with their five amazing and beautiful daughters with highly different emotions. If one is emotional the other is realistic. One is sarcastic, the other is optimistic. The mother who was less social and worry for her daughters' marriages. She was worried for her daughters because she wanted them to get married to the men of good status and have wealth, as every mother wants. The artistic piece covers the different relationships, all the girls go through, the time when they fall in love and get married to the person they have loved. It is all about the liking of one sister and but a proposal to the second sister and the way she accepts. The story is full of emotional bondings, relationships the way they get altered, take a different shape, take a different turn. The novel is a complete package elaborating the love, passion, emotions, the sisterly love and the love of life.

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The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Great Gatsby has been so famous, that it was filmed spanning 90 years in 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000 and it will be again in the cinema halls for all the audience in 2013 with the same name.
• Subject of Novel: Classical Literature.
• Characters in Novel : Nicholas "Nick" Carraway, Jay Gatsby (originally James Gatz), Daisy Buchanan Tom Buchanan, William Mitchell, Jordan Baker, George B. Wilson, Myrtle Wilson, Meyer Wolfshiem , Catherine, Chester and Lucille McKee, "Owl-eyes" Ewing , Pammy Buchanan, Henry C. Gatz, Mr. and Mrs. Sloane Michaelis, Dan Cody and many more.
• No of pages: 218
• Date of publish: April, 10, 1925
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons.

The Great Gatsby is a superb novel that has been popular from the very first day it was published. Now again in 2013 the adaptation will be filmed and open for all the audience of the world. This is the story of an era which was called a Jazz era, where a poor guy Gatsby, who fell in love with the rich and stunning beauty Daisy. The love was on the both ends. But as the Gatsby worked outside the country, Daisy got married to Tom Buchanan who was brutal, rude but extremely rich. It is the story where a poor man gets disappointed by his love of life and left everything and started to earn money blindly and hastily, with severe madness. He thought when he will be rich, he will get Daisy back from Tom Buchnan. The story is full of eagerness, struggle, passion, compassion and madness one has for the other. In the quest of having the love what a man can do is the story of The Great Gatsby.

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Half of the Human Race

   by Anthony Quinn

• The book got 3.65 rating on good read.
• Subject of Novel: Historical, Romantic fiction.
• Characters in Novel: Will Maitland, Connie Callaway, Mother, Tam.
• No of pages: 496.
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape.
• Date of publish: Febraury 1, 2011.

Anthony Quin is an American famous actor, a painter and a well known writer. He has the artistic approach in his work. Though the novel Half of a human race is a piece of art, romance and the struggle of half of the human race that is women and her rights. The story covers the era between 1910 to 1920 where the English society was having a change in their policies regarding women's rights and political interests. It is the story of a suffragette named Connie Callaway, a girl who fights for her rights, not being the conventional girl who dreams about a perfect marriage. She was fighting for her rights for voting, being the part of the nation’s biggest riots. She wanted the women must have the right to vote. She wanted to be a part of champaign the world has ever seen. Where the charming, handsome and somehow the orthodox cricketer falls for her appealing personality and the courage for the cause, the way she speaks, he cannot get away from her charismatic personality. The journey of life, the spiritual love, the romance between both the independent and headstrong individuals takes them to a point of life, is the story half of the human race. It may sound old or freaky, but love with a narrow minded male and an impulsive and strong woman is hard to exist. The story revolves around the struggle of life, relationships, rights, bonds and much more.

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A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In

  

by Magnus Mills

• The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
• It is the seventh novel by Magnus Mills.
• Subject of Novel: Fiction, Comedy.
• Characters in Novel : Narrator,  Brambling (chancellor of the exchequer), Garganey (postmaster general), Whimbrel (royal astronomer), Sanderling (comptroller for the admiralty), Dotterel (suveryor of the imperial works), Wryneck (pellitory-of-the-wall), and Smew (librarian-in-chief) .
• No of pages: 288
• Date of publish: September, 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

The novel is the seventh creation of admiring story writer Magnus Mills, a person who has an appreciative personality with the admiring portrayals in the form of inspirational stories. He is the man who can convince the readers to its writings. The novel “A cruel bird came to the nest and looked In” is a story of a fantasy Royal land. The land which is similar to our land in which we live. That was falling into pieces and waiting for the young emperor who was abroad for the purpose of studying and used to communicate through the penny post.

The people of the Royal land were all waiting for the young emperor, to make state run and work. Because there was an enemy who building their railway towards the Royal land to attack and get them under their regime. The story is an inspirational write up by explaining the history of past 250 years, the way things used to happen there. But the story line is not serious neither boring. Everything is presented in a great comical way. The economic activities, the way people used to manage their livings while the leader emperor is away to pass the commands for the execution.

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The Second Coming

     

By John Niven

• Won IMPAC dublin Award 2013 Long list.
• Subject: Religion/ Fiction.
• Main characters: Niven, God.
• Number Of pages: 384.
• Publishing date: March 5, 2012.
• Publisher: Vintage.

The story in the novel is far more than good to read. It has a deep intelligent irony in it. The characters are just too excellent. Scenes on the rad trips are just too descriptive and fantastic. It has a clever touching with little bits of funny elements as well. Niven is a great fiction writer and he has presented a great art of conversation with God that is very interesting and adds to interest of the reader. The idea of God and His team in the heavens is a great dream that lays in mind of almost every individual, mostly in the form of personal conversations, arguments, and complains. The idea behind the book is just too excellent. Representation of idea is also good. Novel is an adult read only because of frequently used F-WORD in the novel which adds to the story line but I still think this need to be omitted from the novel. Because adding F conversations are just too much for the novel like this. Other than this novel has a great humor that is very appreciable. Niven clearly explain how this world has become today adding funny descriptions. Inspite of a few things in the novel that are not really appreciable and good for young readers, all over the idea of the book is awesome and would have been a magical read if the language of the book was a bit soft and brought up in a bit well manner.

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How it all began

    

• Shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award.
• Won International IMPAC Dublin literary award.
• Characters: Charlotte Rainsford, Rose, Lord Peters.
• Date of Publication: 2011.
• Number of pages: 256
• Type: Adult Fiction
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The book is blend of emotional wisdom and sympathy. It is entertaining and funny. Ms lively is one of the most talented authors who have beautifully written the story in the novel. Tis is a wiity work of fiction that has a satisfied ending which adds more stars to the book. The plot is very entertaining and makes one think about what actually has been happening in the story. The story is significantly important because it talks about how lives touch and tangle with one another. This part of the novel seems a bit mature with clever phase of life. Each character has is representing another character, each one of them is reflection to another. It shows how minor and weak events of life changed to important ones. She gives powerful roles that portray how life reshapes. The novel opens with retired schoolteacher Charlotte Rainsford on a London street. Later, various cast of acquaintances and strangers find their lives forever altered by this event, which many of them haven't even heard about. We see how the mugging affects Charlotte's daughter Rose. Lively delivers her story about these intertwined lives with faultless crafty humor, keen insight, and smart economy.

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Gillespie and I

   By Jane Harris

• Won International IMPAC dublin Award.
• Long listed for the orange prize for fiction 2012.
• Subject: Fiction, history, mystery, tragic.
• Main Characters: Harriet Baxter, Ned, Addie Bundren, Anse Bundren, Darl Bundren, Jewel Cash, Bundren Dewey, Dell Bundren, Vardaman Bundren, Vernon Tull, Cora Tull, Lafe, Whitfield, Peabody, Samson, Armsti, Gillespie, Moseley, MacGowan, The Gillespie boy.
• Number of pages: 624
• Publishing Date: 2011

“Gillispie and I” is Harris’s second novel. This is a curious Creepy Novel. The story of the novel is set in 19th Century. The story is a masterpiece, full of irony, incidents and conversations. The story is about  Harriet who befriends with Ned in Scotland. The beginning of the novel fives an idea how dark the novel will become in the middle of the story. There are great twists in the minor scenes of the story.  The story of the novel is very inventive with lots of surprises which keeps holding to the interest in the story. There is a deep psychological mystery behind the plot of the story. The things presented in the novel not only means what is been portrayed. The character sketch through the words in the novel gives brilliant roles to the characters. The word of the story clearly show how criminal the theme of the story is. Ending, with a great mystery bring solutions to many difficulties which shows the element of hope in the end which adds to the interest of the story till the end for the reader. The novel is based on historical fiction and it does convince the reader one way or the other. No doubt it’s a gripping read!

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The Invisible Ones

By Stef Penney

• Won prestigious Costa Award. 
• Won IMPAC Dublin award 2013. 
• Subject: Crime
• Main characters : Leon Wood, Rose Janko, Ray.
• Number Of pages: 416
• Publishing date: January 2012

The main theme of the novel is mystery and thrill. It is one of the great Novels of Stef Penney. The story is strong with considerate characters. The way story has been told through two characters makes it easy for the reader to understand it. The words used in the story are harsh and not really decent but this makes sense to the novel because the story is based on the crime. Penney’s writing style in the novel about the Romany people added a great mystery to the story. She gives genuine portrayal of characters through her words. The story is about a private investigator Ray whose arm has been paralyzed and he is admitted in the hospital. He was supposed to find Rose, who was wife of the son of the member of the gypsy family. This happened before his going to the hospital and the case was 7 years old. Ray was half Romany. He knew well that he was not selected due to his good working skills, but for his blood. But surprisingly he wasn’t expecting hostile attitude from the Jankos a person with a disturbed and tragic past. Their conversation is based on what helped Ray in suspecting Rose. Inspite of all the tragedy. The story has a proper ending, where both the narrators have a happy ending and they manage to move along the life. At the end of the novel there is a feeling of satisfaction which adds to the beauty of the novel.

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My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

    by Louisa Young

• The novel was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in the year 2011.
• Subject of Novel: Fiction, Romance
• Characters in Novel: Riley Purefoy , Nadine Waveney, Peter Locke, Julia, Rose
• No of pages: 336
• Date of publish: March, 2011 
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The writer Lousia Young is a story writer, a biographic compiler and a well known journalist. She has many publications under her name. She is a fine writer with a one more finest novel with the depiction of the World War I. The story combines with the emotion, love and compassion of lovers, husband and wife and brother and sister. The story initiates with the sparkling love between a young boy Riley Purefoy meets Nadine Waveney. Soon the World War I initiated, the compassionate Riley joined the Army to fight for his country. Then the story moves through a couple’s life where the husband Peter and wife Julia had to face the distances they were never having ever before. Where Peter has also gone to the War zone. The women who were staying at home used to wake up every morning with a prayer and hope that their beloved men will soon come back home soon. There is a struggle of love, and the traumatic men who had returned from the War and turned out to be completely changed men. The novel is a staunch piece of writing for every reader,  the pain and grieve, the women and men faced in the War. The love they have lost in order to protect their country. 

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When God was a Rabbit

   

by Sarah Winman

• The novel brought the breakthrough achievement for the writer Sara Winman. 
• As a debutant writer she won the New writer of the year in the Galaxy National Book Award happened in the United Kingdom in the year 2011. 
• The novel won the Newton First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book festival happened in United Kindgdon in the year 2011.
• The novel made its place by winning Waterstone 11.
• The remarkable achievement was attained when the novel won the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize in South Africa in 2011.
• The book was so influentially accepted, hence was chosen by Richard and Judy in their summer book club in the year 2011.
• Subject of Novel: Dark comedy/ Fiction
•  Characters in the Novel:  Elly, Parents, Jenny Penny (a best friend), Shirly Bassy, Rabbit (named God), Joe (Elly’s brother) . 
• No of pages: 352 
• Date of publish: May 10, 2011. 
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The outstanding piece of work created by Sarah Winman, who got publicly acclaimed by her staunch novel which has won the prizes and awards one can ever dream of it. The story line is cute moves around the lovely and sweet relationships of life a person can go through. A girl named Elly is the main character who shared staunch love relationship with her family especially brother and her friends. The novel is a great depiction of emotions of deep love and insecurity of losing the relationships which one never wants. The events that make a life of an emotional person gets changes is all a masterpiece “When God was a Rabbit”. What is the relationship of God and Rabbit is worth reading and exploring a new dimension of a new relationship in its own kind.

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