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"Desiderata" is a prose-poem written in the early 1920s by writer Max Ehrman. Although it wasn't particularly well-known at the time, it gained popularity thanks to recordings in the 1960s and 1970s and is now known as an inspiring poem promoting...

The Heat of the Day is a novel written by Irish-British author, Elizabeth Bowen. The book was released in the United Kingdom in 1948. It was preceded by The Death of the Heart (1938), and followed on by A World of Love (1955).

The book follows on...

The Collected Short Stories is a collection of 49 short stories written by Satyajit Ray. Originally published in the native Bengali language in the 1960s, the collection has since been translated by Gopa Majumdar. He did an excellent job at...

The Czar’s Spy, often subtitled The Mystery of a Silent Love is a thriller/mystery novel written by Anglo-French journalist and author William Tufnell Le Queux, and published in 1905.

Le Queux was born on 2 July 1864 in London, UK. He had a range...

Benjamin Zephaniah is a British Jamaican poet known for his dub poetry and anti-empire stance. Having grown up in Birmingham to an underprivileged neighbourhood of predominantly fellow Jamaicans, Zephaniah struggled a lot, academically, throughout...

Isobel Dixon is a British South African poet, who was acclaimed for her poetry during the early 2000s. Presently, she has permanently relocated to Cambridge, England and often uses the stark contrast between her birth country and the United...

Sujata Bhatt is a well-known poet across India, America, and Europe. Being an Indian-born writer, most of her poems are preoccupied with cultural identity. Bhatt has also written several poems touching the theme of immigration and belonging. This...

Poems and Fancies is a work by Margaret Cavendish, where she explores natural, science, and mathematical philosophy. Cavendish released these poems when politics and war were ravaging most parts of Britain. The poetry reveals a fidgety and...

Louise Erdrich gives the story of Fleur Pillager, a young woman who embarks on a journey to the city to avenge the stealing of her land. Pillager makes her way to the home of James Mauser, the suspected thief. Before leaving for the city, she...

It is more than reasonable to say that Chretien de Troyes is one of the best-known Medieval authors (he is thought to have created the character of Lancelot). And Perceval, the Story of the Grail was supposed to be his fifth verse. Alas, the verse...

The Testament of Cresseid is a narrative poem written by Robert Henryson sometime in the 15th-century. The poem was translated into modern English by Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, in 2009.

The poem follows the life of Trojan woman, Cresseid, who...

Vathek is a Gothic novel written by English novelist William Beckford. The book was first published in 1786, with the original title being "An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript." Originally, it was claimed the novel was translated from...

The Black Atlantic is a non-fiction historical book about a distinct "black Atlantic" culture and identity, which includes aspects of African, Caribbean, American, and British cultures simultaneously. The book was published in 1993 by Harvard...

Sir Orfeo is a Middle English narrative lay written by an anonymous author in the late 13th or early 14th century. It is a retelling of the story of the ancient Greek Prophet, Orpheus, and his brave quest to rescue his wife from the Fairy King.

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From one of the most prominent authors of today, Stardust is another Neil Gaiman’s successful fantasy novel set in the 19th century in meadows of England. The novel was also adapted into a successful movie in the year 2007.

The novel’s protagonist...

It is often said that Stephen King's On Writing is arguably one of the most important books that explores the craft of writing. Over the course of this 291 page book, King writes about his career as a best-selling, award-winning writer and how he...

Morning Star is a science fiction novel written by novelist Pierce Brown, and is part three of his Red Rising trilogy. The book was published in the US on February 9, 2016 by Del Rey Books. It si preceded by both Red Rising (2014) and Golden Son...

The second novel in author Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Golden Sun (originally published in 2015, just one year after the first novel in the trilogy), continues Darrow's story as he still struggles to destroy the society on future Mars from...

The first book in what later became a trilogy of the same name, Red Rising (which was originally published in 2014), tells the incredibly compelling story of a lowborn miner called Darrow, who has grown up on Mars (in the future) yearning for a...

Billion Dollar Loser is about one of the most striking business sagas in recent American history. It tells the story of Adam Neumann and the details about his starting of the company WeWork, which became a billion-dollar freelance company. The...

Peccavi is a novel written by English author Ernest William Hornug, and published in 1900 when the latter was 34 years of age. The book came after many successful literary works including short stories, novels, journalistic work, and non-fiction.

The poem is based on the grief and loss of the narrator with complete vibrant imagery. The poet is reminiscing about his daughter's death, ‘pearl,’ when he falls asleep in a garden. The speaker starts dreaming about a beautiful land where he spots...

Stephen Crane was an American poet and novelist, and was a key figure in the Naturalism and Impressionism movements. His poems convey themes relating to death, loss, war, religion and love.

Crane’s poetry was unusual for his time, due to the use...

Curious thing about the genre of fiction known as Southern Gothic: not much of it takes place in definitely the most southern and arguably the most gothic of Dixie. Of course, there is no argument that geographically, Florida is the deepest one...