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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884. It is an incredible tale of a boy, Huckleberry Finn, from a Mississippi River town who narrates his adventures with Tom Sawyer and how he gets into trouble for helping a runaway slave Jim.
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It is a classic, written in 1865, that is enjoyed by both children and adults. As Alice slips into a dream, she finds herself chasing after a white rabbit with a waist coat and pocket watch. He heads down a rabbit hole but as Alice follows, she falls into a world very different from her own. A world with Cheshire cats, mad-hatters, packs of living playing cards, and an array of characters which will make Alice’s head spin as she manoeuvres cautiously through Wonderland. She meets a lot of characters, some helpful while others plain evil. In her Wonderland, everyone has a story and a lesson to teach.
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1883. An alcoholic ex-pirate Captain passes away and leaves a chest which contains a secret map amongst other treasures. The map is highly sought after by all the wrong people. The male protagonist Jim Hawkin’s finds the map and speaks to his friends Dr. Livesey and a squire, Mr. Trelawney and they decide to venture to this mystical treasure island to hunt for said treasure.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain’s works during his lifetime.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll and Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella’s impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the vernacular phrase “Jekyll and Hyde” referring to persons with an unpredictably dual nature: outwardly good, but sometimes shockingly evil.
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.” Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost is a delightful story written in a witty way by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1887. The story is about a rather brash American family that buys a haunted mansion called Canterville Chase in Victorian England. Then there begins the holy terror by the ghost of a dead nobleman. Not only this American family faces new experiences in this mansion, this strange ghost also faces some odd but very curious experiences with this family that he had never faced before in 300 years.
Anurag Pathak, through his second venture in the field of writing, does something rare in the field of book publishing – confirms the praises offered on the back cover! With the many millions of UPSC aspirants flooding in each year, there is no other book that is as relevant as this one in this day and age.
In a country like India, where “Twelfth fail” is not a description but rather an insult, Pathak turns the phrase on its head through the inspiring tale of Manoj Kumar Sharma. Rising above the hurdles and challenges on his way, Manoj Sharma has made his mark through his many achievements i.e. his current position as an IPS officer. Pathak, one of Manoj Sharma’s dearest friends, witnessed the struggle and brought it to life through his biographical book “Twelfth Fail”.
In the preface of the book, Vikas Divyakriti makes a bold claim, “After reading and understanding this book you will not be the same person you were before you read it”. This claim has been more than satisfied by the author.
So, for all the UPSC aspirants, for all the “Twelfth fails” and for every youth in India, this book is a must-read. Not for the tips to crack UPSC…not for the inspiring tale of overcoming hurdles…but to learn and understand the many mysteries of life that an Indian youth faces.
It is a historical fiction classic, written in 1859, set in London and Paris. The story is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror with acts of bravery and conspiracy, secrets and lies, imprisonment and torture, sorrow and loss, corruption and and altruism. After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie in England, whom he had never met. Lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become entangled through their love for Lucie Manette. And thus, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror.
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for all ages by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: “The Happy Prince”, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “The Selfish Giant”, “The Devoted Friend”, and “The Remarkable Rocket”. This book is a brilliant and haunting treasure house for everybody where through the stories of Princes, rockets, nightingales, and roses, Oscar Wilde is teaching us about life, love, pride and mercy.
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