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Billion Dollar Loser is about one of the most striking business sagas in recent American history. It tells the story of Adam Neumann and the details about his starting of the company WeWork, which became a billion-dollar freelance company. The...
Peccavi is a novel written by English author Ernest William Hornug, and published in 1900 when the latter was 34 years of age. The book came after many successful literary works including short stories, novels, journalistic work, and non-fiction.
...The poem is based on the grief and loss of the narrator with complete vibrant imagery. The poet is reminiscing about his daughter's death, ‘pearl,’ when he falls asleep in a garden. The speaker starts dreaming about a beautiful land where he spots...
Stephen Crane was an American poet and novelist, and was a key figure in the Naturalism and Impressionism movements. His poems convey themes relating to death, loss, war, religion and love.
Crane’s poetry was unusual for his time, due to the use...
Likely begun immediately after the completion of the Inferno, Dante Alighieri's epic poem the Purgatorio is the second of the three canticles (sets of cantos) which make up the Divine Comedy or the Commedia. It follows Dante and Virgil as they...
Gary Soto's poem "Oranges" first appeared in his fifth collection of poetry, Black Hair, in 1985. The poem appeared a few years later in a collection of poetry geared towards young writers, A Fire in My Hands, in 1991. This collection of poetry...
Artemis Fowl is a young-adult fantasy novel about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind from Dublin. Unlike most main characters in young-adult novels, Artemis is an antihero instead of the hero of the series. He is a deviant mastermind whose...
The short stories of Julio Cortazar belong to a Latin American tradition of fiction known as magical realism. Weird things occur in seemingly normal circumstances, such as a tiger having the free run of an ancestral home while people go about...
Scarborough is a novel by Catherine Hernandez released in 2017 by Arsenal Pulp Press, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Scarborough was named co-winner of the 2015 Asian-Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writers Award for fiction. It was...
Based on Rosalie Ham's 2000 novel of the same name, The Dressmaker, released in 2015, tells the story of Tilly Dunnage (played by Kate Winslet), a dressmaker who returns to her rural hometown in Australia to care for her ailing mother (played by...
Alphonse Daudet's 1873 short story "The Last Lesson" is about Franz, an Alsatian schoolboy who arrives late to school one morning to learn that Germany, having annexed the Alsace and Lorraine regions of France, has decreed the French language will...
Curious thing about the genre of fiction known as Southern Gothic: not much of it takes place in definitely the most southern and arguably the most gothic of Dixie. Of course, there is no argument that geographically, Florida is the deepest one...
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen is a political autobiography written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Antonio Vargas. The book was published on 17 June 2019 by Dey Street Books.
The book details Vargas’ experience as an...
Arguably the most popular of Saki’s short stories, “The Open Window” first appeared in Beasts and Super Beasts, a collection of short stories published in 1914 just before Munro went to fight in World War I. “The Open Window” is appreciated most...
The Water Knife is a science fiction novel written by New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Paolo Bacigalupi. This text was published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. on 26 May 2015.
The book is based on Bacigalupi's short story, The...
What Girls Need is a book highlighting the skills and traits that girls need to cultivate to become the leading light in a patriarchal society. Marisa Porges, the author, narrates how girls should map new ways to inhabit traits like bravery,...
Rage is a story of Donald Trump, president of the United States, concerning his handling of COVID-19. During one of their encounters, Bob Woodward, the author of the book, recalls Trump saying, “I bring rage out.” Mr. Trump was boasting on how he...
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss is a semi-autobiographical memoir by former first daughter and bestselling author Jenna Bush Hager. It was published in 2020 by William Morrow. The book recounts Hager’s life as the...
In Parenthesis is an epic poem based on the First World War, written by David Jones. The poem was published in England in 1937.
The poem is split into seven parts and follows the journey of Private John Ball as he embarks on his infantry service...
The Tradition is a collection of poems written by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown. it was published on 2 April 2019 by Copper Canyon Press. It is Brown’s third collection, following on from his book The New Testament (2004).
The poems cover...
A Promised Land is a memoir by the former 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and is due to be released on November 17, 2020 by Crown Publishing.
The personal account details the life of Obama through his younger years to his...
Katherine Mansfield's 1922 short story "The Doll's House" is about the daughters of the wealthy Burnell family receiving an elaborate doll's house which the girls show off to children at school. The Burnell girls' mother forbids them from inviting...
Coming Plague, The: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance is a global health book written by Laurie Gerrett and was published by Penguin Books on 01 October 1995.
The book entails the real-life events that have shaken the world in the...
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide is a human rights book exploring the history of genocides in the 20th century. It was written by Professor Samantha Power and was published by Basic Books on February 20, 2002.
The book...
