Ian McEwan (born in 1948) is one of the most rewarded and widely read contemporary English writers of 21st century. His novels, which in many cases have become worldwide bestsellers, have received critical acclaim and won a number of important literary accolades including the Man Booker Prize (1998). McEwan assuredly owes his critical and commercial success to his writing approach – a sort of creative recipe well known to many present and past authors attentive to their literary style, desiro...
A Passage to India (1924), by a renowned English writer Edward Morgan Foster, is a novel about cultural encounter, colonisation and alterity. Moreover, it constitutes an interesting “document” about life and atmosphere in time of rapid colonial expansion approximately twenty years before the collapse of the British Empire. The book tells a story of Mrs Moore’s stay in India where her son Ronny, engaged to Adela Quest, occupies the post of a city magistrate. Encouraged by a pleasant conversati...
Published in 1938, Brighton Rock by the Nobel Prize winning writer Graham Green is one of the most important novels in the history of 20th century English literature. In its stylistic and thematic structure, the book comprises the elements that are characteristic of all Graham Green’ literary work. In order to entirely grasp the specificity of Brighton Rock, it is certainly noteworthy to take under consideration some facts related to the life of the author. Often referred to as Catholic write...
