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Friday, April 23rd, 2010Victor Hugo was born in 1802 and grew to be a highly acclaimed French playwright, novelist and poet. His greatest works include Notre-Dame de Paris (the Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Miserables (The Miserable Ones/The Wretched). Hugo was a great supporter of Republicanism, a political standpoint that views a state as a republic (not governed [...]
Robinson Crusoe – Its Universal Popularity
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Daniel Defoe was born in 1659 at St. Gille’s, Cripplegate in London. He was a man of many shades. These different personal traits are reflected in his literary contribution. He had done a numerous occupation during his life time. Some of his important masterpieces like “Essay on Progects “(1698), “The True born English Man” (1701), [...]
1984 by George Orwell
Friday, April 23rd, 2010“1984″ is probably one of the biggest selling books of the late 20th century, and has been translated into over 50 languages. It is not only a story of courage, but of struggle as George Orwell himself was very sick when he wrote it, and many say writing the book ruined his health. George Orwell [...]
“The Turn of the Screw” (1898) By Henry James (1843 – 1916)
Friday, April 23rd, 2010The main story is embedded in another story, i.e. the one about a man who owns the diary of a woman who once lived and worked as a governess on the estate of Bly. This man, Douglas, knew her as his sister’s governess when he himself was a young man and after the events of [...]
An Unfinished Life
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010John F Kennedy has long been a polemical figure in American politics but on 22 November 1963 he lost his life when he was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaz. This assassination has become one of the most controversial events in modern times, one [...]