U.G.Level Texts

The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It is Morrison's first novel and was written while she was teaching at...

The Women of Brewster Place (1982) is the debut novel of American author Gloria Naylor. It won the National Book Award in category First Novel. It was adapted as the 1989 miniseries The Women of Brewster Place and...

Naylor was born on January 25, 1950, in New York, she was the first child to Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. During Naylor's childhood,...

Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for..

The Village by the Sea: an Indian family story is a novel for young people by the Indian writer Anita Desai, published in London by Heinemann in 1982. It is based on the poverty,...

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 in a Bengali Hindu family, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army, and was educated at...

The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 English-language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. The book, for the most part set inCalcutta at some unspecified time in the future,..

Urmila Pawar (born 1945) is a female Indian writer, who writes in the Marathi language an Indian language . According to Dharmarajan her work as a writer reflects her experiences of the difficulties of being a woman and a Dalit, according to her Pawar's "frank and direct" style has ...

Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into ...

The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences offraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down ...

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in theFirst Folio, 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain,..

The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with ...

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Anglo-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is....

A Farewell to Arms is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a.....

Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications.

The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. The book includes 19 stories, all set in the fictional town ofMalgudi, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a...

Wada Chirebandi (Old Stone Mansion), 1985).

Mahesh Elkunchwar (born 9 October 1939) is an Indian playwright with more than 20 plays to his name, in addition to his theoretical writings, critical works, and his active work in India's Parallel Cinema as actor and screenwriter. Today, along with Vijay Tendulkar he is one of the most influential and progressive playwrights not just in modern Marathi theatre, but.....