English-language novels

The novel Ladies Coupe (2001) is written by a remarkable female Indian English-language writer Anita Nair aged 50 (1966). She is known for her fictions as well as her travelogues. Time and again, she meets random young men and women who see her as a vagabond free spirit wandering from destination to destination. She always focuses on the problems faced by woman in Indian society. In the novel Ladies Coupe, she…

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The Road is a novel which is incredibly inspiring yet tremendously terrifying. The beauty of this book is found in its details where we can discover the innocence of the son and how it is praised in this post-apocalyptic world. However, this is only one opinion, many believe that the novel is completely oblivious to its setting and overly repetitive. This brings us to the question at stake; How could The Road be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? Both the critical and…

For whom the Bell Tolls than in the early novels. It is obvious that results support critics’ claims about the beginning of change in this novel. If we look at the openings of the three novels; The Sun also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For whom the Bell Tolls, it is obvious that, although words are concrete, simple, colloquial, and belong to our common-core vocabulary, they are longer in the third novel. The words are simple in the first two novels, but they are compounds in For whom…

and the multiple embodiments of postcolonial feminism. The author, Chimamanda Adichie, born in 1977 in Kambili’s hometown of Enugu, is of Igbo descent and is a Catholic and used her own childhood experience to inform the lives of her characters.The novel is Adichie’s endeavour to filter the thoughts that the West has about the Nigerian culture and criticize the colonizer’s religion, Christianity, which sees all other religion as barbaric in the lands of the…

which is a state of flux following the Great War. Woolf’s motive in writing this novel wasn’t just to present to us the confined life of a high-society housewife, or to explore homosexuality or feminism, but to take the reader on a psychological journey that takes postmodernism and realism to a new level which hadn’t been portrayed in Victorian novels. She helped to pioneer the writing style known as stream of…

eventually develop their lives. One novel that demonstrates the way refugees must change their way of life is Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai. One major character that changed throughout the book is Hà. She starts the novel living in Vietnam, going to school, knowing she is smart and somewhat bullying others. When her family flees to America, she feels “dumb” and ends up getting bullied. She must adapt to these challenges and overcome them by learning english and figuring out the…

extract taken from the famous novel " Give Back My Heart" by Yusuf Sibai, one of the prominent novelist in the Arab world, as the source text. The novel was published in 1954. It is about the complicated love story of Ali, a poor young boy, and Engie, the daughter of a rich man. The novel highlights the differences among the social classes in Egypt and the political incidents of the time. The extract is an example of a typical literary formula. This includes a rich language and an…

Charlotte Bronte illustrates the hardships that women faced in the mid-19th century in England and worldwide in her first novel, The Professor. The novel is about an Englishman that seeks a new career as a teacher in Belgium. The effeminized Englishman, William Crimsworth, finds his wife in Belgium, but surprisingly, his wife Frances requests equal standards and rights. Although Bronte addresses topics such as nationality and religion, The Professor is known to be one of the first works of…

The language that Charlotte Bronte uses in Jane Eyre has word choices that describe the feelings and moods of her characters strongly. Charlotte also uses old english writing that makes a fine read. Jane Eyre is classified as a bildungsroman, or growth narrative, and many books that were written during or near the 19th century were bildungsromans. The novel is classified as one because it shows Jane's internal growth from a child to an adult. This makes Jane Eyre a truly exceptional book to read…