Austen has crafted a compelling novel in which she uses her sharp observations and wry humor to comment on class, structure, judgement, and high society. This romantic and philosophical novel demonstrates to its readers how first impressions can drastically get in the way of relationships. First impressions are generally inaccurate, however, can be accurate. The novel Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impression. This title more accurately describes the novel as shown through the…
The canvas of the literary writing changed after the Second World War. The women writers such as Kamala Markendaya, Ruth Prawar Jhabvala and Shashi Deshpande took the pen in the field of social and artistic novels. These women writers focus on the issues such as socio-psychological conflict, multicultural elements and the individual identity of the period. The novelist show their prime concern on the depiction of the East-West conflict, disharmony between tradition and modernity, psychological…
Researcher (Anthony Willingham) S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton) was born on July 22, 1948. She is an American writer who is famous for her novels set in Oklahoma, specifically The Outsiders, which she wrote while in high school. In 1988, she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library association. Her first and most famous novel, The Outsiders was set in Oklahoma in the 1960's was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers high school, the…
Judge Wilhelmina Carson is the lead character of the Judge Wilhelmina Carson series otherwise known as the Justice series of novels by American author Diana Capri. The first novel of the series was the title Due Justice that was first published in 2011. Diana Capri the author of was born and raised in a small American German small town just north of Alabama where she spent much of her childhood reading books. She attended the Wayne Law School before she went on to become Wayne Law Review editor.…
In her first novel, To Whom She Will (1955), R. P. Jhabavala has depicted the Indian society, its tradition and customs, the marital relationship, illicit relationships, the plight of refugee’s in New Delhi in the period of partition. In another novel, The Nature of Passion (1956), the struggle of a modern young girl Nimmi, with the age-old tradition and custom is depicted. Her urge for women’s emancipation is highlighted in the novel. The failure of marriage between an Englishman and Indian…
In 1995, Christopher Paul Curtis published a novel titled “The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963,” and in 2013, Jim Bechtold, Philip K. Kleinbert, and Brian Wells released the movie version of it. The novel received the John Newbery Medal and the Golden Kite Award for Fiction; based on google books, it got 4 out of 5 stars for recommendation. This wonderful book about a family going towards the Southern America First and the foremost, both in the movie and book, the Watsons’ family was the main…
honest representation prompted prestigious dailies such as the New York Times to call her “the Balzac of the late-20th-century American Midwest”. It was so celebrated, it even got adapted into a movie (of the same name). Four years later however, in 1995,…
books in Philip Pullman's trilogy " Dark Materials". I my essay I will write about Northern lights and Lyra growing up in the novel.(Northern lights, Pullman,1995) Pullman’s works have an oral feel which, coupled with humor, verbal dexterity and skillful view setting, makes them perfect for reading. The lead part is often taken by powerful girls, such as another novel is Sally Lockhart in The Ruby in the Smoke1985.…
was based on the novel, swept the prestigious Ariel Awards. In 1993, it became the biggest grossing foreign film ever released in the United States. In the same year, the novel glimmers by being on the New York Times bestsellers list, then by receiving the American Bookseller Book of the Year Award in 1994. Being the first foreign writer who wins this prize,…
Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani well-acclaimed diasporic writer. The novels she has written in English reveal her individual understanding of the Indian subcontinent’s Partition, socio-political aspects, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi or Zoroastrian community. Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi in the country of Pakistan, she subsequently migrated to Lahore. Bapsi Sidhwa saw with her own eyes the blood-spattered Partition of India when she was a young girl in…