Irene Adler and Victorian issues in “Scandal in Bohemia”
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Irene Adler and Victorian issues in “Scandal in Bohemia”

Introduction: Andrew Sanders in his The Short Oxford History of English Literature says, “The speculation and sensational popular literature of crime, which had been a feature of mid-Victorian Britain, retained much its currency in the late century.” (476) The story “Scandal in Bohemia” is about safeguarding the Aristocrats from the scandals in Victorian society. It ... Read more
The issues of “A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945” by Kylas Chunder Dutt
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The issues of “A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945” by Kylas Chunder Dutt

Introduction: As it was written in the year 1835, 112 years before independence, it is an imaginary tale of freedom fighting and struggle towards the British Raj. This story portrays the expectations developed in the heart of the author during the real struggle of independence. The setting is original but the characters and the events ... Read more