By James Aitchison Bestsellers in their day, but forgotten now. The pioneers of spy fiction, hundreds of them, produced thousands of stories between 1914 and 1939. Some, like Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, John…
By James Aitchison He was called a “book factory”, writing more than 600 novels using 28 different pseudonyms. Some critics shunned him, but readers loved him. They lapped up 80 million copies of his work — in 25 languages! John…
By James Aitchison He was a barrister, spymaster, novelist, poet, a British Lord, and Governor-General of Canada. His most famous book was first filmed in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock. In the pantheon of great British thriller writers — John le…
By James Aitchison Great films begin with great scripts. As Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy once pointed out, “You can do nothing unless you have it on paper first.” Yet screenwriters suffered more frustrations and a lower status than many other…
By James Aitchison He was born in Singapore to a Chinese father and British mother. Not only was he the most successful Singaporean author of all time, but also the creator of a character whose uninterrupted success was one of…
This article highlights the top 10 cheat tricks to write an outstanding philosophy paper. Continue reading till the end to crack the code of an impressive philosophy dissertation. By: Hannah Williams Philosophical papers are not like the normal papers students…
By: Professor Nandini Sahu AbstractA much neglected but significant part of our literary traditions, tribal literature, captures the complex socio-cultural and spiritual fabric of many native communities. Home of sixty-two tribes, Odisha has a corpus of tribal literature comprising oral…
By: Jad S. Karkout In writing Dubliners, Joyce aimed to present a historical account of Dublin and create a vivid portrayal of Irish life. To achieve this, he centered Dublin as a hub of paralysis that afflicted most of…
By: Ramlal Agarwal The recognition and discussion of Indo-English novels starts with Raja Rao (1908–2006), Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004), and R.K. Narayan (1906–2000). William Walsh, the famous English critic, called them the Big Three of Indo-English literature. They burst onto…
By: James Aitchison “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.” And she was not exaggerating. Dorothy Parker (1893 — 1967) was famed as an American poet, writer, critic, and screenwriter. Most…