P.G Level Texts

Plays

Novels

Fiction

Hamlet is a difficult read, no getting

around it. Yet it's the most thrilling

drama in all of Shakespeare- some believe in all of literature. It is the

story of a prince robbed of a father

and of his rightful seat on the throne

of Denmark. Love, revenge, betrayal, intrigue at home and abroad- and the

most brilliantly complex character

in all of literature- comprise the

story. Add some of the most

dazzling language ever written.

Gulliver's Travels has been the recipient of several designations: from Menippean Satire to a children's story, from proto-Science Fiction to a forerunner of the modern novel.

He was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, where after Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven.

You may like this novel if you wonder how extreme isolation might affect the human mind, you like reading a character's spiritual musings; you want to read the original survival novel.

You may not like this novel if you expect the plot of follow the traditional story that is prominent in literature today: you are distracted by archaic grammar and spellings.

The work is long and seemingly loosely structured, and although there are autobiographical elements, it is not a straightforward or linear autobiography.

Imaginary Homelands is a collection of essays written by Salman Rushdie covering a wide variety of topics. In addition to the title essay, the collection also includes " Commonwealth Literature" Does Not Exist".

A Nobel Prize winning Absurdest play, Waiting for Godot revolves around two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, who are seemingly waiting for Godot. Who or waiting for Godot. Who or what Godot is, they are aware. To pass their time till Godot arrives, these two friends argue, play,eat,sleep and converse. They even think of committing suicide- anything that would help them to pass time. In the first as well as the second act of the play, they encounter Pozzo and Lucky who are master and slave. The two tramps also argue on philosophical and religious topics, though they always end up agreeing that there is"nothing to be done". Each act ends with the arrival of a boy who informs the two that though Godot would not be able to come that day, he would surely come the next day.

In this novel the characters are good, kind rich people and the dirty nasty poor people. Oliver Twist is an orphan but really he is from a good family so he is of course good.If we talked about the characters they were poor people, thieves, prostitutes, and murderers. Charles Dickens uses the book to show how bad the situation is for a lot of people living in England at the time.

According to Said, Orientalism dates from the period of European Enlightenment and colonization of the Arab World. Orientalism provided a rationalization for European colonialism based on a self-serving history in which "the West" constructed "the East" as extremely different and inferior, and therefore in need of Western intervention or "rescue".

To the Lighthouse takes on some elements of Woolf’s own life: she felt stifled by her father in much the same way that Mr. Ramsay squeezes the life out of his children. And the sudden deaths of her mother and her sister Stella left her in deep mourning.

But, Woolf herself got fed up with critics who insisted on reading the Ramsays as direct representations of the Stephens (Stephen was Woolf’s maiden name). To the Lighthouse is also an extended meditation on the relationship between art and life, and on late Victorian family structures

The setting is a small rooming house on a beach area somewhere near the ocean. The home is owned and run by Petey and Meg, an elderly and not very bright couple in their 60s. They have one long-time boarder, Stanley, in his thirties who is near if not exactly at a birthday. Two other men come in asking for room, Goldberg, a man in his fifties and McCann, in his thirties. They appear to be on some sort of mission and Stanley is the object of their visit. Lastly there is Lulu, a local girl in her 20s.

Goldberg and McCann seem to be on a mission to Stanley, but it’s not fully clear why. They may want to “save” him from something, perhaps the meaninglessness of his life or perhaps from faults in his past. They are vague, yet seem to suggest some sort of clerical background in Stanley’s life, and some serious failures which harmed other people, but nothing is too clear.

I find the short chapters in Dan Brown's books enjoyable. I think they make it feel more fast-paced as the chapters quickly jump to different areas of the story. I also like the fact that the frequent chapter breaks make it easy to find a stopping point without having to quit in the middle of a chapter.

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