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eLiterary Term |
Stream of
Consciousness:
"Unspoken thoughts and feelings of characters
without resorting to objective description or conventional dialogue." |
Expert says |
| In preface to the translations of
Ovid, Dryden identified three kinds of translations: strict word-by- word, loose
imitation, and a middle way of 'paraphrase, or translation with latitude, where the author
is kept in view...but his words are not so strictly followed as his sense...Dryden
favoured the middle way. -Transmogrified
by the Classics, Avid For Ovid |
Amazing
Literary Facts |
| The word Robot
was first used by the Czech writer Karl Capek in his book R.U.R in 1921. |
| Once the
bestselling American thriller writer Michael Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell
for an assignment on Gulliver's Travels. Surprisingly, he got a B-minus. |
| A line from the
debut album of the Spice Girls "Wannabe" has been included in the new edition of
Penguin Book of Quotations alongside the orations of Sir Winston Churchill. |
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Canadian writer Yann Martel won
the newly named Man Booker Prize for his novel Life of Pi.
Australian writer Peter Carey won
the Booker Prize for the second time in 2001, a rare literary feat first achieved only by
South African writer J.M. Coetzee before
for The Life and Times of Michael K. and Disgrace.
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| Michael
Crichton views on cyberspace |
 "The internet is either
porn," he says sharply, " or simply full of errors." |
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| How
did Catch-22 come into existence? |
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have heard the famous phrase Catch-22 first used by the American writer Joseph Heller. His
novel published in 1961 was called Catch-22. He originally called the paradox Catch-18 and
intended to call the book by that same name too but at the same time another best selling
novel Mila 18 by Leon Uris got published in the US. Therefore at the last minute Heller
and his publishers decided to change the title to Catch-22 to avoid any confusion. |
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All of those who loved J. D. Salinger' s Catcher in the Rye and got
disappointed when his next novel Franny and Zooey published in 1961 was not
followed by anything can now afford a smile. His friends say that J D Salinger may have
many unpublished works in his safe. It is believed that the unpublished works all revolve
around the fictional Glass family, the central figures in Franny and Zooey.
J D Salinger was born in New York on 1st January 1919. At present, he lives at a
recluse on his estate in Cornish, a town less than 2000 people near Vermont Border.Adapted from the Asian Age, March 23, 1999 |
 Jonathan Frazen (1959-) has been awarded
the prestigious literary award National Book Award for his best-selling novel The
Corrections, about a dysfunctional family in middle America. He came into the
spotlight when he was disinvited to Oprah Winfrey's dinner after questioning the literary
merit of her book-club endorsement. Click here
to read the first chapter at Guardian
Jean-Christopher Rufin
has been awarded France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt for the second time
for his historical novel Rouge Bresil, telling about Brazil's colonial
conflicts as seen through
the eyes of two children in search for their parents. Rufin, the former Vice President of
Doctors Without Borders won the Prix Goncourt in 1997 for his first novel L'Abyssin.
He was born in 1952. |
 Helon Habila, a 33 year old Nigerian writer was awarded the $15,000 Caine Prize for
his prison diary story titled as Love Poems published by Epik Books, Lagos.
He works as the art editor of Vanguard, a Lagos newspaper, as well as is a
published poet. He is from the north of Nigeria where there are mostly Muslim living but
he is a Christian and believes strongly that Muslims and Christians can co-exist in
Nigeria.
Love Poems: A
Short Review |
Love Poems is set in
1997, towards the end of the Abacha regime, when the country was plagued by increasing
violence and political detentions. Mr. Habila writes of the loneliness, the fear and the
smell of life in prison. The judges said his story was marked by a particular
"intensity and alertness to some of the most sinister aspects of Nigerian life under
military rule."
The Economist |
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Great
Quotes |
The aim of most of our modern
novelists seems to be, not to write good novels, but to write novels that will do good.
-Oscar Wilde |
Write privately, not publicly;
without fear or timidity as if it was never going to be published.
-Muriel Spark |
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| John Grisham's
11th novel titled Brethren with a first printing from Doubleday of 2.8 million
copies shared attention with his another new work, A Painted House, a semi
autobiographical story about a boy growing up in Arkansas. He wrote this book as a serial
novel for the Oxford American, a southern literary magazine based in Oxford,
Mississippi. |
| Official website of John Grisham |
| The Magazine's Web Site |
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A must for every shelf |
| Baby
and Child Care is one of the most popular book ever written since 1946, 30 million
copies have been printed in 38 languages. It was written by Benjamin Spock and its 1976
edition, the book which is an essential companion of millions of parents all over the
world was revised jointly by Benjamin Spock and Dr. Rothenberg. B Spock died at the age of
94 on 17th March,1998. |
 
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
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