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The American political tradition has a long history, and it can be traced back to the colonial era. The colonial period was the time when America was first established as a colony of Great Britain. It is also where British law, culture, and...

Weeds and Wild Flowers is a collection of poems written by Alice Oswald and Jessica Greenman. It was published in 2009. The poems are written by Oswald and illustrated by Greenman. Oswald is an English poet whose work is very famous and is known...

Originally written in Portuguese, The Zahir is a 2005 novel by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. Since its publication, it has been translated into over 40 languages, becoming a global phenomenon.

The Zahir is a novel about a pilgrimage, or a holy...

Gang Leader for a Day is an autobiography written by Sudhir Venkatesh, about the urban poor life in Chicago. As explained in the beginning of the book, Venkatesh graduated from the University of Chicago and landed a research job, to learn about...

Exiles is a written play by James Joyce that includes three acts; the manuscript was written in 1914, finished in 1915, and published in 1918. Despite the efforts made by Joyce and American poet and critic Ezra Pound, to whom Joyce had shown the...

Carl Sandburg was a renowned and celebrated American poet. He was born in 1878 to Swedish parents in Illinois. At the age of 13, he left formal schooling to help support his family, working as a milkman, a porter and a bricklayer. He later moved...

Published in 1918, Eminent Victorians is a collection of four biographies of prominent heroes at the time of the author, Lytton Strachey. The biographies include those of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon,...

Democracy in America, is a firsthand sociopolitical observation of the United States written by French lawyer Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831. The author documents his travels through America and contrasts his experiences with established...

Published in 2000, The Danish Girl is an American novel by author David Ebershoff. A novel of realistic fiction, the main character becomes one of the first people to go through sexual reassignment surgery, a surgical transformation for someone to...

Published in 1936, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is one of the earlier novels of the famous writer and activist, George Orwell. Gordon Comstock is the main character in the novel, and his main goal is to defy the main things that society is doing -...

The School for Wives is a comedic play first performed for the brother of a King in 1662. The play was written by the French playwright Jean-Baptiste Moliere and was considered one of the best plays at the time and one of the best by Moliere,...

The Barber of Seville was written in 1773 by Pierre Beaumarchais, and first performed in 1775 at the Comedie-Francaise in the Tuileries. The play belongs to a trilogy by the playwright which also includes The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty...

Released in 1961, The Physicists is a play by Swiss writer Friedrich Duerrenmatt. The play was first released in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and has since been adapted int many other forms such as an Australian radio...

Emily Pauline Johnson was a Canadian writer of the nineteenth century. Born during 1861, Johnson was raised on Six Nations Reserve, which was a Native American reservation. She died during 1913 due to complications from breast cancer. Her...

Duncan Campell Scott was a Canadian writer and poet that lived from 1862 to 1947. Publishing many famous poems and other works, he has become one of the most recognizable Canadian writers, and he even has an award named after him. Many critics of...

Released on December 3, 2010 in the United States, Black Swan is a psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film, raking in over $325 million at the box office, was produced by Cross Creek Pictures and distributed by Fox...

Bamboozled is Spike Lee’s comedy released in 2000 which was at the time—and remains—his most acrid, ironic, and profoundly satirical cinematic statement on the state of racism in America at the turn of the millennium. The film stars Damon Wayans...

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1 is a comic book published by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Published in 2016, the book features the main character Black Panther, who rules the fictional African nation of Wakanda. The name of the book, Black...

Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, or Letters to Alice for short, is a book written by Fay Weldon and published in 1984. The novel is comprised of letters the are from a fictional character called "Aunt Fay", and are to Alice. Alice is...

Graceland is a cultural novel written by Chris Abani and published on January 26, 2005. Chris Abani is a Nigerian American writer. Most of his work is known for addressing political and cultural issues in his home country, Nigeria. He got...

James George Frazier was intrigued by an ancient Italian tale of "King Of The Wood" and this book is his attempt to discover the origin of the story. The eponymous King was in actuality a priest whose task was to protect Nemi, a grove of trees...

Tanith Lee (born in 1947) was a British writer and poet, most known for her science fiction, horror and fantasy works. She was taught to read by her father and started writing at the age of 9, publishing her first novel in 1971. Lee’s extensive...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American poet, fiction writer, journalist, and abolitionist of the nineteenth century. She was born during 1825 to free African-American parents in Baltimore, Maryland and died during 1911 in...

It's Raining in Mango was written by Australian author Thea Astley. The book is a sort of a fictional autobiography, with aspects of Thea's own life thrown into the book but in a fictional context. The book explores many parts of Australian...