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- TalmudThe Talmud runs to about 2.5 million words, and not one of them claims to be the final word. It records the teachings, opinions, and disagreements of…
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter." That is how Adventures of…
- FrankensteinFrankenstein begins not with a monster but with a question whispered around a log fire. In the rainy summer of 1816, Mary Shelley sat at Lord Byron's Villa…
- Ulysses (novel)Ulysses, the novel James Joyce published on the 2nd of February 1922, tracks a single ordinary day in Dublin. The date chosen was the 16th of June 1904.
- Carrie (novel)Stephen King wrote the opening pages of Carrie in a trailer in Hermon, Maine, during 1973. He had just finished teaching English at Hampden Academy and was…
- Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleHind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book that Mahatma Gandhi wrote aboard a ship traveling from London to South Africa in 1909.
- The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales begins with a group of strangers at a London inn, about to set off on a road trip to visit the bones of a murdered archbishop.
- NCERT textbook controversiesThe National Council of Educational Research and Training began its work in 1961 as a government body designed to guide school education across India.
- The Second SexThe Second Sex opens with a question that sounds almost too simple to ask. "What is woman?" Simone de Beauvoir, the French existentialist philosopher, posed…
- Letters on the EnglishLetters on the English arrived in print in 1733, and within a year it had been seized and burned in France. Voltaire had written twenty-four essays based on…