Study guides: books, letter p

Paper Towns by John Green

Having received two majors of English and religious studies, John Green initially intended to become a priest. But life has introduced its changes and on his way of getting an extreme popularity as a young adult writer, he wrote a good number of book reviews for living. His fiction works are now turned into movies and video blogs and are known all over the world. The events of the “Paper...

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Those of us who are madly in love with poems find “Paradise Lost” written by John Milton in 1667 the quintessence of literary mastery. You might not like the Bible, but you will for sure like the Biblical interpretation of contemporary reality executed in the book. Prepare to get carried away with this dozen of books written as a blank verse story. It evokes lots of feelings and...

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The revolutions are always a source of great literary inspiration and occupy a large part of world literature plots. But there isn’t much written about the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi from Iran wrote “Persepolis” as a recollection of her own memories. It’s a series of two books, the first of which is “The Story of a Childhood” and it talks about what...

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Persuasion is worth reading not just because it is the last creation of a legendary Jane Austen. Most of all it is a detailed autobiography that sheds a lot of life on the author’s life. It is also a very mature love story that unfolds in a middle of economic and political changes in the country. At the beginning of the book, the reader meets a respected and wealthy Elliot family. It...

Phaedra by Jean-Baptiste Racine

Phaedra is a tragedy based on Greek mythology and dedicated to the only topic: the unrequited love. We see it in many forms: tender affection of star-crossed lovers, all-consuming forbidden passion and the calm love of a caring husband, who doesn’t know that he is not welcomed in his home anymore. The plot is based on the myth about the ancient Greek queen Phaedra, who suddenly and...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

For quite a while Jane Austen has lived behind the scenes of her works. Writing behind the closed door of her bedroom and publishing the books anonymously might have been a necessity of the English morals and censorship tendencies at that time. But it also allowed her to escape the unnecessary over interpretation of her novels. The readers of those times experienced each book on its own, instead...

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

“Pygmalion” is probably one of the most famous plays by George Bernard Shaw that laid the foundation for a famous Broadway musical “My Fair Lady”. It was published in 1913 and named after a Greek myth about a sculptor who tried to make his beautiful sculpture come to life.  Similarly to the myth, the protagonist of the play, professor Henry Higgins, spends 6 months...