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Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen took home the Tony Award for Best Play in 2000: pretty heady company for a really heady play about quantum physics pitting Niels Bohr against Werner Heisenberg. (That’s Werner Heisenberg…not Walter White’s Heisenberg.)...

Michael Frayn’s frenetic audience-pleasing farce Noises Off began life as a one-act play with the title Exits first performed in 1977 at Drury Lane. The success of that performance led to the commission for the play to be expanded into a...

Arranged Marriage is a collection of eleven short stories written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who is an Indian-American author and poet. This book was published in 1995 and won the American Book Award. It was on the San Francisco Chronicle...

Published in 1961, Sunlight on a Broken Column is a semi-autobiographical work and the only complete novel by Attia Hosain. The novel, set against the backdrop of the Partition of India and the social fragmentation it ushered in, follows the life...

The Mexican-American author Ana Castillo was born in Chicago in 1953. Considered a pioneer in the field of Chicana studies and Chicana literature, 'So Far From God' is her ninth published work, coming after the likes of 'Peel My Love Like an...

The Children's Book was written by A. S. Byatt, an award-winning author who has accrued international fame for her novels and short stories. This historical fiction novel was originally published during 2009 and was later published during 2010 by...

Martin Louis Amis is a contemporary British novelist. Having been inspired by the likes of James Joyce, Amis often deals with the follies of Western capitalist society. His narratives frequently poke fun at such lifestyles in exaggerated form.

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Ezra Pound's contribution to poetry is marked by his promotion of Imagism, a movement centered on clarity, economic language, and rhythm. Pound started this movement after studying Japanese forms of poetry like waka verse and haiku. These forms...

Although Kipling is perhaps most famous for his short stories like "The Jungle Book," he was just as famed for his verse as his prose. His work, which is staggering in number, consists of such major poems as "If", "The White Man's Burden", "The...

One of the most famous - and infamous - works in the history of literature, The Sorrows of Young Werther was Goethe's first work of narrative art, published in 1774. The novel was perfectly timed, capturing the European imagination with its...

Last Sacrificeis the spell-binding conclusion to the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead, and was published in 2010. The world that Mead has conceived revolves around a battle between the 'good vampires', otherwise known as Moroi, and 'bad...

Spirit Boundis the fifth installment in the Vampire Academy series and was published in 2010. The world that Mead has conceived revolves around a battle between the 'good vampires', otherwise known as Moroi, and 'bad vampires', known as Strigoi....

Blood Promiseis the fourth installment in the Vampire Academy series and was published on 2009. The world that Mead has conceived revolves around a battle between the 'good vampires', otherwise known as Moroi, and 'bad vampires', known as Strigoi....

Shadow Kissis the third installment in the Vampire Academy series and was published in 2008.

The story continues with Rose's struggle to cope with the guilt of Mason's death in Frostbitewhilst undertaking her training to become a "Guardian" and...

Frostbiteis the second installment in the Vampire Academy series and was published in 2008. The world that Mead has conceived revolves around a battle between the 'good vampires', otherwise known as Moroi, and 'bad vampires', known as Strigoi....

Vampire Academy is the first book in Richelle Mead's Vampire Academyseriesand was published in 2007. The world that Mead has conceived revolves around a battle between the 'good vampires', otherwise known as Moroi, and 'bad vampires, known as...

City of Glass is the third book in the Mortal Instruments series written by Cassandra Clare. The book continues is a continuation of the previous two and it follows Clary and Jace as they try to get past their romantic feelings that are...

City of Ashes is the second book in The Mortal Instruments series written by Cassandra Clare. The book continues the story of Clary Fray, the young girl that discovered in the first book that she was actually a Shadowhunter. Shadowhunters are a...

City of Bones is the first book in The Mortal Instruments series. The plot is set in modern times New York and focuses on the life on Clarissa Fray as she discovered that her life is not what she believed to be and that there is a hidden world...

An Abundance of Katherines (2006) is a novel by John Green who is a highly regarded Young Adult (YA) Fiction author. He maintains a substantial online following especially on Youtube where he and his brother Hank make videos, such as the popular...

John Osborne’s Inadmissible Evidence was performed for the very time on the night of September 9, 1964 at London’s Royal Court Theatre as a production of the English Stage Company. With esteemed actor Nicol Williamson heading up the cast, the play...

The Entertainer is a stage play by John James Osborne. An actor and playwright, he attracted relatively little wealth or fame for his stage skills but became famous almost overnight for his 1956 play Look Back in Anger, which accurately captured...

Number the Stars is a historical fiction novel. It follows the journey of 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen after the Nazi invasion of Denmark in 1943. Annemarie must help her Jewish best friend, Ellen Rosen, escape the country. Lowry got the idea...

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes contains twelve stories written about the legendary consulting detective by his creator Arthur Conan Doyle. Like all the other Sherlock Holmes adventures, these stories were originally published in the Strand...