General Knowledge (Books & Authors)

Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play by the Italian playwright and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.

A Passage to England is a travelogue written by the Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams, which premiered in 1947.

Absolute Power is a thriller novel written by the American author David Baldacci, published in 1996.

Confessions of a Lover is a novel written by the Indian author Mulk Raj Anand.

Centennial is a historical novel written by the American author James A. Michener, published in 1974.

The Deserted Village is a poem by the Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, published in 1770.

Divine Life is a spiritual work written by the Indian spiritual teacher Swami Sivananda.

The Coverley Papers are a series of essays written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele for The Spectator.

Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in 1945.

The Bubble is a novel written by the Indian author Mulk Raj Anand.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water is a non-fiction book by Marc Reisner, published in 1986.

Essays on the Gita is a collection of essays by the Indian philosopher and nationalist Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.

Afternoon Raag is a novel by the Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri, published in 1993.

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by the American author Ernest Hemingway, published in 1929.

Freedom at Midnight is a historical account of the events surrounding the partition of India and the independence of the country. It was co-authored by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

The Gathering Storm is the first volume of Winston Churchill's six-volume series titled The Second World War. It covers the period from the end of the First World War to the start of the Second.

Babbitt is a satirical novel published in 1922 by the American author Sinclair Lewis. It is a critique of American middle-class life and consumerism.

The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931. It depicts family life in a Chinese village and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

If I am Assassinated is a book that compiles the writings and letters of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, written while he was in prison.

Interpreting Early India is a historical work by Romila Thapar, one of India's most eminent historians of ancient India. The book discusses historiography and approaches to understanding early Indian history. R.K. Narayan wrote fiction, Thomas Hardy wrote Victorian novels, and Adam Smith wrote economics.

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1894 and features the famous character Mowgli.

Emma is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1815. It is a comedy of manners about the perils of misconstrued romance.

Dust to Dust is a novel written by the American author Tami Hoag. It is a suspense thriller published in 2000.

Jean-Christophe is a ten-volume novel sequence by the French author Romain Rolland. It tells the life story of a German musical genius.