The novel Cold Mountain was published in the year 1997 by the American author Charles Frazier and is generally regarded as a historical romance, with the action being set during the American Civil War.

The main character of the novel is an...

Published in 1999, A Star Called Henry is a novel written by Roddy Doyle, an Irish author. A Star Called Henry is the second book in “The Last Roundup” series. The protagonist of the novel is named Henry Smart. Smart, as a child, lived in the...

Set against the stark background of World War II, City of Thieves is a historical fiction novel by David Benioff published in 2008. Centering around two young boys in Soviet Russia and their daring quest, the story qualifies for the Bildungsroman...

Theodor Fontane had enjoyed a long career as a travel writer, almost been executed as a spy and enjoyed a twenty-year long gig as a theater critic before he found the ideal medium for his literary expression. Fontane did not publish his first...

Porcelain is a play written and directed by Singapore playwright Chay Yew. The play was released in 1993 in the United Kingdom, and was later moved to the London Royal Theater. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Yew said about the play,...

First published 1999, Wonderland is a play by Chay Yew, a gay, Singapore-born American writer of Chinese descent. Along with Porcelain and A Language of Their Own, Wonderland is part of Yew's "Whitelands Trilogy." It was also published in a...

No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff was published in 1996. The main character is Clare Savage, where the novel follows her life. Clare must find her own identity, and this book shows a coming-of-age theme, where Clare grows up to be herself....

Doctor No is the sixth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series and was first published in 1958. The story centers on Bond's investigation into the disappearance of fellow MI6 operative Commander John Strangeways whilst in Jamaica. He establishes...

Saturday is a novel written by Ian McEwan and published in 2005. The narrative is set in London in 2003, during a time in February where there were protests happening because of the United States’ invasion of Iraq during that time. The setting of...

Cold Sassy Tree is a historical novel set in the fictional town of Cold Sassy of Georgia in the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century. It was written by Olive Ann Burns, and was her first work. When Burns wrote the novel, she...

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud was written by Herbert Marcuse and first published in 1955 by Beacon Press. In it, Marcuse, a German philosopher, explores and analyses the social theories espoused by Sigmund Freud and, to...