Essays on Book Review

There are various questions that economists have resorted to when trying to promote the development of a country through elimination of poverty. Questions that address the persistent poverty in developing countries, reasons why some nations are poorer than others, and the characteristics that lead to...

Why Nations Fail written Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson smartly explain the reasons that resulted in the prosperity and failure of nations in the middle ages in the context of the applied policies. The book is thoroughly composed, simple to follow and fascinating as...

What They Fought For is a non-fiction book. The book is intended for adult audiences. The book is split into three chapters. It was written by James M. McPherson, who is an American Civil War historian. The book was published by Louisiana State University Press,...

Unbroken serves as a remarkable non-fiction story by written by Laura Hillenbrand. The work is based upon the true life struggle made by the US army officer Louis Zamperini, who underwent severe humiliation and torture as prisoner of war at the hands of the Japanese...

Twilight is a fantastic, romantic novel by American author Stephenie Meyer. Twilight was published in 2005 and was translated into 38 different languages around the world, later the novel has been adapted into series and film in 2011-2012. The novel talks about a teenage girl...

The play Our Town was created by Thornton Wilder in 1938 and is set in a fictional town known as Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire in the early 1900’s. The play Our Town has shown what is was like in the olden days, before mobile phones,...

Aravind Adiga’s ‘The White Tiger’, a Booker Prize winning debut, marked a growing revival of stark realism and social commentary in Indian fiction, and bought a, if somewhat cliched and overdone, honest portrayal of a country undergoing prominent socio-economic and democratic changes in a fresh...

To begin with, The Red Badge of Courage was written by Stephen Crane in October 1895. The book is a war story with the genre being Historical Fiction. Due to this story being historical fiction, the ideas portray Realism. Although, the source of the Civil...

The setting of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, is very important to the novel as a whole. As the story is set in the 1800’s in rural England, readers are told in chapter 11 that the town occupies what used to be a Roman...

In this historical fiction novel “The Breadwinner,” an audacious eleven-year old Afghan girl has no choice but to work as a letter reader and masquerade as a boy in order for her family to survive. There are many characters- Parvana, Parvana’s younger sister Maryam, their...