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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find sola.... (Read more)
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
A novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature. Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. L.... (Read more)
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The House Of The Spirits
by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) is the debut novel by Isabel Allende. The story details the life of the Trueba family, spanning four generations, and tracing the post-colonial social and political upheavals of the Latin American country they live in. The story is.... (Read more)
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class.
The story begins when Myshkin arrives on Russian soil after a stay in a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by St. Petersburg society as an idiot for his generosity and innocence, the pr.... (Read more)
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The Imperial Agent
by Timeri N. Murari
India, at the turn of the twentieth century, is the crown jewel of the British Empire; but what seems the most glamorous symbol of Britain’s dominance has already begun to simmer beneath its surface.
In The Imperial Agent, Murari traces the beginnings of the Indian revolution through .... (Read more)
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powe.... (Read more)
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The Last September
by Elizabeth Bowen
THE LAST SEPTEMBER depicts the tensions between the longing for love and the yearning for freedom, between longstanding tradition and radical social change, and the attractions and terrors of political, spiritual and even sexual emancipation. The story follows the end of an era, the demise.... (Read more)
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The Legend Of Amrapali
by Anurag Anand
Aryavart (around 500 B.C.) was a land of many prosperous kingdoms and among the most prominent of them was the vajji confederacy one of the first democratic republics known to mankind. Vaishali, the capital of the confederacy and that of the illustrious Lichchavis was not only a center of .... (Read more)
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The Lotus Queen
by Rikin Khamar
1303 AD, Rajasthan, India. Queen Padmini's new life in Chittor, the capital of the Rajput kingdom of Mewar, is rudely shattered by the arrival of the Sultan of Delhi who, smitten by her beauty and obsessed with the desire to possess her, lays siege to the fort.
As the Rajputs face tota.... (Read more)
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The Naked And The Dead
by Norman Mailer
Portrays the contrasting personalities and nostalgic reminiscences of a group of World War II American soldiers engaged in a combat operation against the Japanese.
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, "The Naked and the Dead" received unpreceden.... (Read more)
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