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Rudyard Kipling
There is a thick file of letters among Kipling’s papers, which reflect systematic refusal of titles and offices that were sometimes offered to him.
In 1890, Kipling’s friends laid f...
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Rabindranath Tagore
In the life of a poet or a novelist or any creative writer, external events are not important as the internal ones. The circumstances surrounding him and his response to them played an important role ...
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Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman
Narayan – His Mentor
The lesser known fact is that, at that point of time no one knew that among his brothers was a great Indian writer in English in the making, R K Naraya...
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Heart Poured In The Poetry
Many advantages accompanied his birth; but he spurned them all.The qualities that struck one immediately was a gentle and cordial goodness that was...
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P G Wodehouse
The Setback
He sent his resignation to The Globe by telegraph and settled in New York. But ironically, this initial success proved just a spark and darkness followed. Within ...
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Norman Mailer
Criticism And Fame
The Barbary Shore (1951) and The Deer Park (1955), these two books harp too obviously and hardly on politics. These novels have suffered from similar criti...
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Mark Twain
Knowledge Quest
From Keokuk, Sam had wandered to Cincinnati and started working there. But again left his job and traveled to New Orleans by a streamer called Paul Jones. The...
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Mario Puzo
1972 - The Godfather – Oscar for Best Picture
1974 - The Godfather – Part II Oscar for Best Picture shared with the movie
Earthquake
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Marian George Elliot
Her Outlook Towards Life
George Eliot was more a ‘meliorist’ rather than being an optimist or a pessimist. A believer that the world could be improved and was perhaps slowly ...
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George Gordon Byron
Augustous Augusta
Here again when Byron's ardor cooled down, he returned to Augusta convincing Lady Melbourne that the attraction for Augusta was the strongest. But Augusta d...
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Lewis Carroll
Down the Rabbit-Hole
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank
and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the b...
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Leo Tolstoy
His Education
Time passed by for the Tolstoy. Leo was five and his education was the responsibility of a German tutor, Fyodor Ivanovich Rossel. In the beginning, litt...
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Kingsley William Amis
The Army
After joining Oxford, Amis had no other option but to join British Army as World War II was still going strong. He underwent rigorous training to expand his ...
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Joseph Conrad
His Uncle Shouldered the Responsibility
Tadeusz Bobrowsky, maternal uncle of Conrad who was a lawyer, took up the responsibility of young Conrad. He provided his neph...
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