I will start writing today from my previous post of this series. As a bibliophile, I always have a fascination with books, and with that fascination, I want to list here some books that I want to keep in my collection and read. the first post of this series I mentioned few Bengali original books and a translation series. However, in today's post and the second post of the series, I will talk about some English original books. Translations of these books may be available in the market, but I would like to narrate the flavor of the English original.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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| Cover of “Dracula” in the edition published by Warbler Classics. |
Brief Summary: Dracula tells its story through journal entries, diaries, letters, and telegrams written by the novel’s main characters. In form it is, fundamentally, an epistolary novel, though the presence of telegrams and a “phonograph diary” shows the manner in which Stoker was incorporating communications technologies of his time.
Brief Information: Dracula is a Victorian gothic novel by Irish author Bram Stoker first published on May 26, 1897. It is one of the most famous novels of modern times, mostly due to the amount of movie adaptations it has inspired. It has become cultural attachment. It is written in epistolary format, told through diary entries.
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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| ”Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection” books and box. |
Brief Summary: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of detective stories featuring the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion Dr. Watson. Together, they solve a series of intriguing and puzzling cases.
Brief Information: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his prowess at using logic and astute observation to solve cases. He is perhaps the most famous fictional detective, and indeed one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters.
The Shining by Stephen King
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| A cover of the book “The Shining”. |
Brief Summary: The Shining is set in Colorado in the 1970s. It centers on the Torrance family: husband Jack, wife Wendy, and their five-year-old son, Danny. At the beginning of the novel, Jack is hired as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel for the winter offseason. He is informed by the hotel manager that the previous caretaker, Delbert Grady, killed his entire family inside the hotel. Specifically, Grady “murdered the little girls with a hatchet, his wife with a shotgun, and himself the same way.” As Jack later learns, the Overlook has a long and ghastly history. Over the years, it has housed illicit affairs, horrible murders, and mob-style executions; perhaps by consequence, its ownership has changed hands several times.
Brief Information: The Shining is the third book published by Stephen King; it is his third novel. The book was published by Doubleday in January 28, 1977. The book was followed in 2013 by the sequel Doctor Sleep.
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
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| ”Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection” books and box in Childrens Paperback Edition. |
Series Summary: Harry Potter was first introduced in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997; also published as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), as an orphan who is mistreated by his guardian aunt and uncle and their son. On his 11th birthday Harry discovers that his parents were a witch and a wizard and that he, a wizard himself, has been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He also learns that his parents had not perished in a car accident, as his aunt and uncle had told him, but that they instead had been murdered by an evil wizard named Voldemort. Harry was the only person to have ever survived an attack by Voldemort—by somehow rebounding the latter’s “killing curse”—which left him with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead. Indeed, Harry’s mysterious survival had all but killed Voldemort, who was left disembodied, and the young boy was thus already a celebrated figure in the “wizarding” community. At Hogwarts Harry becomes fast friends with classmates Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger and finds a rival in Draco Malfoy. He is taken under the wing of the school’s headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. These relationships persist throughout the series, especially as the young wizards and witches grow older and are called upon to take sides in a growing wizard war.
Brief Information: Harry Potter, fictional character, a boy wizard created by British author J.K. Rowling. His coming-of-age exploits were the subject of seven enormously popular novels (1997–2007), which were adapted into eight films (2001–11); a play and a book of its script appeared in 2016.
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