Category: Classics

The Aviator Born at the tail end of the 19th century in Somerset Road, Earling, Nevil Shute Norway, or just Nevil Shute, which is his penname, was a man …

Outsider Trollope, as the offspring of parents with high social status and aspirations but little money, had something of an unhappy childhood. Before he joined the Post Office as …

Ahead of Her Time In case you didn’t know, George Eliot was a woman; in fact, her real name was Mary Ann Evans. This would ordinarily not be very …

A Titan of Fiction Ray Bradbury was one of the great American novelists of the 20th century, not to mention an accomplished short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and …

An Enigma Born into a middle-class family in Glen Cove, New York in 1937, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jnr always had a draw to writing. While in high school, he …

Philosophies and Writing French-Algerian philosopher and author, Albert Camus, is not everyone’s cup of tea. But he undoubtably plays a huge role in the literary world, winning a Nobel …