Showing posts with label Famous English Novels. Show all posts
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Looking For Me By Angela Duirden

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LFM Synopsis:Remona "Mona" Bishop was forced into a world of hatred and confusion. After the death of her grandmother; Big Momma, she is forced into the foster care system. But all of the "old folk" teaching that Big Momma instilled in her; were washed away with pain, shame, and haunted dreams. After running away from her foster care home, she lands into the arms of Lee. It is then, Mona quickly finds the love she needed that Big Momma once shared with her. But, when Lee gets the chance to follow his dream, the world he'd once desired becomes his worst enemy. Can Mona save Lee and restore the man she'd fell in love with? Or will she join him to keep the love? Author Angela Duirden-Galbreth, provides a story of love, triumph, and survival in this suspense- filled story "Looking for Me".


LFM II Synopsis:The sequel continues... Now that Lee has found himself in deep trouble with notorious drug-lord, King, Lee is given the opportunity to wipe his debt clean. But when a cruel twist of fate deals the couple a bad hand, Lee is arrested and carted off to prison in Mexico. Leaving Mona left alone to battle her addiction, haunting dreams, and facing eviction without two pennies to rub together, King is waiting in the wings with the seduction of money, power, and ample means to satisfy Mona's craving. Submitting to the unthinkable, Mona puts her relationship with Lee to the ultimate test. After Lee's return, can their relationship handle the truth? Or will bittersweet lies, deceit, and deadly soul ties have devastating consequences? Written with undeniable passion, Author Angela Duirden-Galbreth, provides a scandalous roller coaster ride illuminating the harsh realities of love, survival, and the challenge of finding hope and healing in this literary suspense- thriller, Looking for Me II: Bitter Sweet Lies and Soul Ties.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Admired,Filmed and still in Publish : 5 Most famous Novels of Last Century

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To the Lighthouse

By Virginia Woolf
To the lighthouse is a novel that has set the milestone for the high modernist novels and was at number 15 on the list of 100 best English Language novels of the 20th century in the Modern Library in the year 1998.This novel was chosen by the TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English Language from 1923 to present in the year 2013. It is among those novels which has been filmed in 1983 and 2007. There are plenty of books which has been written on the theme of this auspicious novel like Finding Myself by Toby Litt, Jayne Joso’s short story was also inspired by To the Lighthouse.
Genre: Modernist, autobiographical.
Characters in Novel: Ramsay, Mrs Ramsey, James, Lily Briscoe, Charles Tansley, Augustus Carmichael, Paul Rayley and Minta Doyl, Prue, Andrew, Camilla.
No of pages: 122.
Date of publish: 5th May 1927.
Publisher: Hogath Press.
The novel is a complete package of emotions and emotional attachment and detachment one experiences are all about. Woolf has been so natural and easy in portraying every character by fulfilling its charm and brightness. 
There are few fights between husband and wife and a father and a son due to difference in opinion and wishes. Whereas the women's suppression that a woman is handicapped and is not capable of doing the technical and difficult work on her own as Lily was taunted by one of the guests that she can not make a good painting. It is the story in which different emotions have been enlightened with the light of deep feelings and thoughts that get changed among the people you are having a relationship with. It is time which makes you alter the opinion and love with the loved ones you are living with. Finally it has been hope one should never leave at any instant of life. The novel is tempting and interesting peace that can be most understood by the students of literature.
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Howards End

By E. M. Forster 
The Modern Library had given the position of 38 to the Howards End under the list of 100 best English Language Novels of the 20th Century in the year 1998. One of its adaptation was aired on television in 1970. In the year 1992 a film was made on the basis of this masterpiece. 
Genre: Social, Romance.
Characters in Novel: Margaret Schlegel, Henry Wilcox, Helen Schlegel, Leonard Bast, Ruth Wilcox, Charles, Theobald ("Tibby") Schlegel, Aunt Juley, Dolly Wilcox, Paul , Jacky Bast , Evie Wilcox, Miss Avery, Percy Cahill, Frieda Mosebach .
No of pages: 256 
Date of publish: 1910 
Publisher: Edward Arnold (London) 
The novel has a pure depiction of class difference and status conscious, strong emotions and deceptions of relationships. Most of the people still follow class difference and are obsessed with their money and pride. In the gloomy way of money, property and status they are unable to value the human as the most important asset of life. E. M Forster has build the novel through very strong characters where Margaret is a strong woman with a big heart always striving to protect and combine her family through the consequences they have faced. Having a stubborn husband with an extramarital affair. The husband who was inflexible and had regrets for the harsh behavior with the class issues and personal relationships, always concerned with the business and his money. The story has a turn when Margaret found her sister expecting a baby without a legitimate relationship. But she kept her footings so strong and never wanted any family member to leave alone. This is a moral story that every woman must read as a source of inspiration that how a woman protects her family in spite of being deceived, gone through harsh behavior, lie and false relationships. Even then she has not left the trust on herself and her family.
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A Passage to India

By E. M. Forster
The novel has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for its fictional depiction in 1924. It also gained the position of 25th in the Modern Library’s list of 100 best English language novels of the twentieth century. It has been a strong source of inspiration for many dramas, theaters, plays and film writers throughout the century in different years like 1960, 1962, 1965, 1984, 2002, 2004.
Genre: Historic Fiction.
Characters in Novel: Dr. Aziz, Cyril Fielding, Adela Quested, Mrs. Moore, Ronny Heaslop, Professor Narayan Godbole, Mr. Turton, Mrs. Turton, Maj. Callendar, Mr. McBryde, Miss Derek, Nawab Bahadur, Hamidullah, Amritrao, Mahmoud Ali , Dr. Panna Lal, Ralph Moore, Stella Moore .
No of pages: 336
Date of publish: 1924
Publisher: Edward Arnold, (London)
The story probably the finest piece of writing about the British Raj and Indian history in the journey of independent states with no controversy associated with it. There are four major characters of the novel. Mrs. Moor who wanted her son to be married to Miss Adela Quested. Dr. Aziz and Cyril Fielding. The story is about a trip to the cave in Bihar. Which was dark and there was a lot of echo. Which was very scary.
There was so darkness that in the middle of the way Mrs. Moor rejected to continue the exploration where Adela continued with Dr Aziz and guide. While Dr Aziz was with Mrs Moor the guide did not go along with Adela. She got scared and found faint in one of the caves. Dr Aziz helped her out but Adela accused Dr Aziz that he tried to be physical with her. In spite of it when Dr Aziz slapped the guide because he did not go with Adela in the cave, the echo made her frowned and faint. Dr Aziz was innocent and got free but the accusation brought severe intensity at that time among all the raised in India. The plot is very interesting and takes you in the deep feeling as if you were there seeing everything.
 
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The Catcher in the Rye

By J. D. Salinger 
The novel was a big hit, for that matter different writers, directors and producers were always approaching Salinger to take the permission for the making of the adaptations. In the year 1949 the first adaptation of the novel was made by the name of “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”. Slinger did not want his novel to get adapted again, but with his due permission the novel has been adapted in 1961, 2003 and 2010. 
Genre: Historic, autobiographic
Characters in Novel: Holden Caulfield, Mr. Spencer, Ackley, Stradlater, Allie, Jane Gallagher, Sunny, Maurice, Sally Hayes, Phoebe.
No of pages: 224
Date of publish: 16, July, 1951
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
The story is fabulous and a lesson for the boys and girls of today. The same way, there was a boy named Holden who was dismissed from the football team as he lost a few kits. A girl he liked emotionally but did not want to commit physically. Holden was a boy who had many chances to commit the adultery but he wanted to protect his manhood for the appropriate person he wants. He was an emotional person who was so in love with his family, his sister and a brother who died. He was not a womanizer and want others to think alike. He wanted to love a person not only the sexual orientation a person is having. The novel is beautifully scripted through the life of Holden that he got plenty of chances to make a wild decision, whereas he wanted someone to be with him, to relieve his loneliness. The person with no one night stand but to spend the whole life with happiness and joy.This is a kind of story must be read by the youth of today.So they must understand the world of emotions, sentiments and relationships and their importance in life. They should not be made and broken easily or abruptly. They should be made under a strong basis and need for understanding, sharing and caring.
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Oliver Twist

By Charles Dickens
Oliver twist is the second novel written by Charles Dickens. It has been a source of adaptation for many films and movies. It has won many Academy Awards in 1968 for the movie made by motion pictures.
Genre: Historic Fiction Social Criticism.
Characters in Novel: Oliver Twist, Fagin, Artful Dodger, Bill Sikes, Nancy, Mr. Brownlow, Rose Maylie, Charley Bates, Monks, Mr. Bumble, Noah Claypole, Mr. Sowerberry, Toby Crackit, Mrs. Sowerberry, Grimwig,Mrs. Corney, Mrs. Mann, Bull's-eye, Chitfing
No of pages: 362
Date of publish: 1837
Publisher: Richard Bentley Publisher
Charles Dickens is an influential writer with an art of perfect expressions that grabs the attention of the reader, and don’t let the eye to blink. Same goes for the Oliver Twist. The story of an orphan who has gone through the hardship of life in a very young age, which should be the age of laughters, love and protection. The novel has been a weekly edition full of suspense that what will happen next to the Oliver. When he was 9 years of age treated badly with less amount of food and very less facilities. He was kind of an upset individual,sold out when he asked for more food. Because the food which used to be given to him did not fill up his stomach. He escaped from there and went into the web of roberors. Who tried a lot to rupture his true nature. But they failed to corrupt his immaculate soul. He was forced to be a part of the gang for the robbery, he denied and was shot in the left arm and the robbery went to a failure. He never wanted to be a bad man, but wanted a good life away from poverty. But the torment and torture of life does not affect his soul. And the righteousness have won over the evil spirits he has gone through the life. This is a story every kid should read, in order to understand what is present behind the hardships that comes in life.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Storyline : The Lord of the Rings

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The Lord of the ring is the quest at two levels. Frodo’s quest and Sauren’s quest. One’s quest is to get the power to rule and corrupt while Frodo’s quest is to end the evil.

The Fellowship of the Ring 

It was long ago, 111th birthday of Bilbo Baggins when suddenly he leaves the Shire, the land of the Hobbits. Others thought Bilbo Baggins had become mad. Bilbo left Gandalf and Frodo, Frodo was Bilbo’s relative and an only e33 year old adopted heir. He owned Bilbo’s belongings which included the Ring, his home and Bag End. Before Frodo could manage it all; Gandalf left Frodo making him warned about keeping of the Ring. 


On one spring night Gandalf came and told Frodo the horrified truth about the Ring. It was too scary to know that the Ring belonged to Sauron the Dark Lord. Sauron forged the Ring to rule over Middle-earth however he got defeated in the War of the Last Alliance. King Elendil’s son Isildur cut the Ring from Sauron’s finger and kept the Ring for himself. Soon Isildur got slain in the Battle of the Gladden Fields; the Ring was lost, now it was in the deep Great River Anduin. Thousands of years passed the ring went into different hands. Finally Bilbo got after Gollum. The Ring had evil powers which always inflicted bad effects on its bearer and those who stay near to it. But then Sauron the Dark Lord regained his power and returned to Mordor. 


Gandalf informed Frodo the Ring was unsafe in the Shire. Sauron knew where the Ring was. Frodo planned to go Elf-haven Rivendell, the only safest place for Frodo and the Ring.  Frodo left the Shire with Sam, Merry and Pippin but Fatty stayed behind to distract Nazgul. The hobbits travelled through the Old Forest to meet Aragorn, their guide to Rivendell. Nazgul attacks Frodo and his companions, Frodo got severely injured but Elrond the lord of Rivendell saves them all.


At last Frodo reaches at Elrond’s house in Rivendell and Frodo meets Bilbo. Elrond summons his Council so they can bring all the matters in front of Gandalf, Frodo and Bilbo. Gloin informed everyone about Nazgul and Gollum who were haunting the Ring. The steward of Gondor, Boromir tells about a dream to search “the Sword That Was Broken” and “Isildur’s Bane” in Rivendell. Frodo and the Ring were Isildur’s Bane. Finally the Council decided to throw the Ring into the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor.
Elrond explained Boromir the intrinsic evil of the ring; the Ring had corrupting powers for everyone. Frodo decides to set for the quest and becomes the Ring-bearer. He started his quest with eight of his friends, Boromir and Aragorn, Legolas, Gandalf, Gimlithe dwarf (Gloin’s son) and three hobbits. This company has formed the Fellowship of the Ring and represent the races of Middle-earth. During an encounter with Balrog, Gandalf falls into an abyss; others run away and reach in Lothlorien. Frodo ends up the fellowship and moves to Mordor along with Sam. 

The Two Towers

Orcs captivated Merry and Pippin considering them the Ring bearer because of misunderstanding a heard prophecy. Merry and Pippin both run away while travelling they befriend with Ent (a huge tree like creature) named Fangorn. They went to Ent assembly, Ents decided a war against the cruel Orcs of Isengard. Saruman keeps haunting the scattered members of the fellowship. Gandalf reborn as Gandalf the White and assists Aragorn’s fellows to the Golden Hall of King Théoden.
Frodo and Sam met Gollum and made him their guide. They passed through smelly marshland viewed dead warriors haunting the waters. At last they see the Black Gate of the realm of Mordor. Frodo gets paralyzed because of Shelob’s sting and both friends get separated. Orc guards capture Frodo while Sam thinks Frodo was dead, he carried the Ring by himself. This book finishes with Sam’s distress over separation of Frodo from him.

The Return of the King

Gandalf and Pippin started their journey to the city of Minas Tirith in Gondor and meet Denethor the city’s Steward. Pippin presented him his sword, as Boromir has sacrificed his life in the quest. Darkness of Mordor disguised the sky over Minas Tirith. Aragorn realized that the Riders might become late to assist him. He decides to take the legendary Paths of the Dead to Gondor but finds a large army of the Sleepless Dead follows him to southward. Boromir’s father sends Faramir, to stop Mordor army at Osgiliath. When Faramir fails and gets injured by Nazgul, Denethor becomes mad and plans to kill Faramir to end the line of Gondor’s Stewards.
Riders of Rohan reach at time and fight the enemy off meanwhile Nazgul kills king Théoden. Merry and Lady Eowyn kill Nazgul bravely. On the other side Pippin and Gandalf both stop Denethor from killing Faramir but Denethor kills himself.  After rescuing Gondor, Aragorn completes another ancient prophecy concerning the next king of Gondor. Aragorn forces move towards the Black Gate of Mordor and face Sauron’s Lieutenant who claims to have Frodo and Sam in his captivity. When Gandalf snubs him he frees his army of Mordor. Meanwhile Sam successfully rescues Frodo from the tower of Cirith Ungol. After many long and tiring days or travelling both friends reach Mount Doom. Sam carried Fordo to the top, but as they reached the Cracks of Doom Frodo refused to give the Ring, ring has casted its influence on him. Gollum bites the Ring off Frodo’s finger but he stumbles and falls into the Cracks of Doom. Gandalf rescues Frodo and Sam.

                   
The Darkness disappears from Gondor and Aragorn becomes the King of Gondor. The hobbits return to the Shire and find their destroyed houses. Frodo lets Saruman live but his own servant Wormtongue kills him. The hobbits rebuild the Shire and start their life. Sam marries Rosie Cotton and got a daughter. Frodo was badly injured so he decided to sail away with Gandalf, Bilbo and the other Ring-bearers went towards the unknown west a peaceful paradise.

                                                        
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Deadly to Love

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Author: Mia Hoddell
ASIN: B00BDQ3QGA
ISBN: 9781291319170
Genre: YA/Paranormal/Urban Fantasy/Romance

Description

There is a love that is so dangerous, so powerful, so intoxicating that it embraces your heart and smothers your mind until it leaves you defenceless.Serena knew that but still, it didn't stop her. His name was Kai. He was the most beautiful, irresistible man she had ever encountered. Their attraction was too compelling to fight and she knew she would go to the end of the world beside him. That is love.However behind the allure was hidden a deadly secret – a secret that threatened her fragile life... But secrets best left unsaid never remain hidden forever. When Kai reveals his true identity, she is exposed to a frightening world she had no idea existed. Controlled by powerful Elemental forces her life is placed in mortal danger. 
Unbeknown to them, their lives have been entwined from the beginning and it leads her to discover an even greater secret about who she really is. As the pieces begin to unravel and death becomes a reality, Serena is forced to decide what is more important...her love or life.

About the Author 

Mia Hoddell lives in the UK with her family and two cats. She spends most of her time writing or reading and her preferred genre is Young Adult, Paranormal Romance. Before 2009, Mia wouldn't even pick up a book and was more interested in sports. However she finally found some novels that captured her interest and developed a love of both reading and writing. Mia began with poems and after getting two published in separate anthologies she moved on to short stories. Although she enjoyed this, Mia found she had too much to tell with too little space, so later on she created her first series The Wanderer Trilogy and from there other ideas have emerged which she hopes to turn into novels as well. Elemental Killers is her second series and book two will be out soon. 

What people are saying

"It was a very original idea, not to mention modern. I loved that little twist. This story had such a good plot and the story structure was sound." ~ Kacii - The Kooky Bookworm 5/5

“I read this book in one sitting as I just couldn't put it down. The story line was original, intriguing and made you feel like you were part of the action. As well as this there were many twists and turns that kept me hooked and the book was really well written with a solid plot. The book didn't reveal everything straight away which was great as it left in suspense right up until the end.” ~Lucy M 5/5

“I found that it's surprisingly original concept was quite common in real life but not so much in books. I found it a delightful read that I will look forward to reading in the future. And the new cover! Marvelous.” ~ Kathy H 5/5

“All I can say is WOW! This book was amazing and different. I love the twist and detail she used I was instantly pulled in and felt like I was there with the characters.” ~Brianna 5/5

"This book surpassed all of my expectations and kept me hooked from beginning to end. In Deadly to Love the action is constructed incredibly well, it is fast paced but filled with loads of detail that leaves everything easy to imagine and visualize." ~ Billie 5/5

"Mia Hoddell used the senses well to add depth and engage me as a reader, especially during action sequences or heightened moments. I really struggled to stop reading this book!" ~ L. Morgan 5/5

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Wuthering Heights

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  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

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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

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 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

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    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

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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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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Snowdrops

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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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