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    This tale on the exterior is a kid’s narrative that Rushdie composed for his 11-year-old son. After comprehensive study nevertheless, the book materializes as a mockery on the restraints levied on the privilege of expression. It is about a young boy known as Haroun whose father is an esteemed storyteller but loses the propensity after his wife runs off. He desires to revive his dad’s capabilities of imagination, and so he commences on a fabulous trip, which leads him to another world, where there

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    John Milton is the lead protagonist in the John Milton series of novels by British mystery, thriller, and suspense author Mark Dawson. John Milton made his first appearance in the 2013 published title The Cleaner. The series of novels are best classified as mystery thrillers. John Milton was a ruthless killer who was the man that the government sent to eliminate targets that proved too hard to track or kill. Milton, killing was more of art and he considers himself a highly skilled craftsman. He

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    Margaret Atwood is evenly concerned with encouraging a discrete Canadian literary identity. In her novels, Atwood naturally creates women characters who are strained to rebuild themselves in a more self-contained and audacious figure as they seek out to set up their relationship to the world and to the individuals around them. Atwood’s dissections of contemporary urban life and sexual politics have been chiefly welcomed by feminists. She is no less concerned in setting up what it means to be Canadian

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    It was his first novel, Such a Long Journey, in 1991 that built up him as an essayist of notoriety. It won numerous honors: Canada 's Governor General 's Award for fiction; the Commonwealth Author 's Award for the Best Book of the Year; and the WH Smith Books in Canada First Novel Honor. It was likewise named for the UK-based Booker Prize (now known as the Man Booker) what 's more, the Trillium Award. Be that as it may, his compositions come back to India on numerous occasions for topics and topic

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    Coolie: A Saga of Inequality and Exploitation Abstract: The nineteen-thirties were the most confused years in Indian history. It was the time of Indian thrash about for sovereignty and everyone was effected by the blow of this even poetry, drama and novel too. So Anand could not stay uninfluenced by it. He suffered a lot so this made him abhorrence imperialism. He was conscious of the sufferings of our community from dearth and nastiness. No one in India had yet written the classic on this suffering

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    Introduction: The term ‘realism’ has a long history but the formal trend beginning with mid 19th century Anglo- Francophone writers, depicting contemporary life and society as it was, or is, authors opted for depiction of everyday life and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized repetition. But now the Post-realist aesthetics situated within a Baudrillarean realm of ‘Simulacra’ has come to dominate much of

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    James Joyce’s short stories “Araby” and “The Dead” both depict self-discovery as being defined by moments of epiphany. Both portray characters who experience similar emotions and who, at the ends of the stories, confront similarly harsh realities of self-discovery. In each of these stories, Joyce builds up to the moment of epiphany through a careful structure of events and emotions that leads both protagonists to a redefining moment of self-discovery. The main characters in both these stories are

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    Literature generally reflects life. It doesn’t just describe the events; it creates characters and conflicts to help the reader better understand the meaning of the events. Modern literature is often linked to ideology, either supporting or discriminating it. George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Salman Rushdie’s The Prophet’s Hair are among the literary texts that attack the ideologies, Communism and Islam respectively. Even though the texts are written in the genres that are usually used to support the

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    Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on seventeen August 1932, the eldest son of a second-generation Indian. He was educated at Queen's Royal college, Trinidad, and, once winning a government scholarship, in European nation at University college, Oxford. He worked shortly for the BBC as a author and editor for the 'Caribbean Voices' programme. he's a Noble Prize-winning British author acknowledged for the comic early novels of island, the bleaker later novels of the

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    Anita Desai 's ' Desai '

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    She finds totally alone and helpless in her husband 's house. Anita Desai 's language is marked by three characteristics of sensuous richness, high sensitiveness and love for the sound words. She is chiefly interested in the emotional world of woman, and her fiction reflects a rare imaginative awareness of the various forces in operation and a genuine understanding of feminine sensibility as well as psychology. Her central characters are sensitive and respond faithfully to the needs of the self.

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