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- TalmudThe Talmud emerged from oral traditions that circulated for centuries before being written down between the third and sixth centuries.
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain composed the story in pen on notepaper between 1876 and 1883. He originally titled the manuscript Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography before settling…
- FrankensteinMary Shelley stood at the edge of a waking dream on the night of the 16th of June 1816. The air inside Villa Diodati felt heavy with damp and the smell of…
- Ulysses (novel)On the 2nd of February 1922, Sylvia Beach handed James Joyce three copies of his new novel. The date marked his fortieth birthday and coincided with the…
- 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 RuleMahatma Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj in 1909 while traveling from London to South Africa. He composed the text in his native language, Gujarati, aboard a ship…
- The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer began writing The Canterbury Tales between 1387 and 1400, a period marked by political instability in England.
- 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 SexSimone de Beauvoir spent fourteen months between 1946 and 1949 researching and writing The Second Sex. She published the work in two volumes titled Facts and…
- Letters on the EnglishVoltaire arrived in Great Britain during the year 1726. He remained there until 1729, a period that shaped his entire worldview.