Literary Occasions: Essays

6 best books like Literary Occasions: Essays (V.S. Naipaul): Six Characters in Search of an Author, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books, Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Author	Luigi Pirandello
ISBN	0486299929

One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) wrote dramas and satires that sparked controversy with their radical departures from conventional theatrical techniques. His most celebrated work, Six Characters in Search of an Author, embodies the Nobel Prize-winning...

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Author	Marcel Proust
ISBN	0143039075

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...

The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books

Author

John Carey

Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship...

Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast

Author	Samanth Subramanian
ISBN	0143064479

In a coastline as long and diverse as India's, fish inhabit the heart of many worlds—food of course, but also culture, commerce, sport, history and society. Journeying along the edge of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian reports upon a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories.

In nine essays,...

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Author	Ramachandra Guha
ISBN	0060198818

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have...

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Author	Chinua Achebe
ISBN	1594204829

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war

The defining experience of Chinua Achebe’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970....