by Aseem Gupta | Sep 27, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Wide Window is the third novel in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, following The Bad Beginning and The Reptile Room. The original 2000 edition continues the story of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire as they are placed with yet another...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 23, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Reptile Room, first published by HarperCollins in 1999 according to the first-edition bibliographic record maintained by WorldCat, is the second novel in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. It begins soon after Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 20, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 1999 as the first volume of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning introduces Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire by taking almost everything from them within its opening pages. Their parents die in a fire, their home is destroyed, and the...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 12, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Kahlil Gibran’s The Madman: His Parables and Poems is a small book built to unsettle large certainties. First published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, as confirmed by the original 1918 edition, it was Gibran’s first book published in English. Its short parables, prose...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 7, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker begins with the kind of professional dream that drives many legal thrillers: a young lawyer wants the case that will make his reputation and his fortune. Rudy Baylor is still a law student when he begins imagining himself as a...
