The Handmaid's Tale Book Review Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, the acclaimed dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. The book tells the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohi…

Book Review & Short Summary Toni Morrison’s  Beloved   was published in 1987. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Inspired by the real-life story of a runaway African-American slave named Margaret Garner, who killed her own daughter to prevent her…

Heart of Darkness Book Review Not too often can an author have achieved his aim for a novel with more perfection than Joseph Conrad with Heart of Darkness . Conrad once wrote how he hoped to instill enough power in the sombre theme of the book that it would "hang in the air and dwell on the ear after the la…

Ulysses Book Review James Joyce’s Ulysses occupies a very significant place in the history of English literature . The novel is one of the greatest chef d’oeuvres of modernist literature. The textual history of Ulysses was first published on 2 February 1922. But, Ulysses is also sometimes seen as so experimen…

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from . Year of Publication: 1901 Author: Rudyard Kipling Characters: Kimball O'Hara, Lurgan Sahi…

Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children Free E-Book Download Midnight's Children is a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie that deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of British India. It is considered an example of postcolonial literature and magica…