The Canterburry Tales by Geoffrey Chauser(Reviewed by Vandana C Mohan)


                                                      The Canterburry Tales is the collection of around 23 stories by Geoffrey Chaucer.It is like a travel log,as a lot of people were traveling  towards a church and  at night they all decides to rest at a roadside shelter and for timepass they decides to say their stories.The whole travelers says their story and chaucer collects the stories in his diary.The stories  are very interesting and it has a special appeal because ,it has a content of real life experiences.The story draws the conditions of the middle english period as Chauser explains the stories.The stories are very interesting and the reader does not get into the state of boredom.
                                                        The story deals with the conditions of the middle class,and the condition of women in the olden era.Chauser adds his flavour by natural mode o story telling.

                              School days by Ruskin Bond(Reviewed by Vandana C Mohan)
                            


                                                       Ruskin Bond's School days is a collection of short stories by famous short story writers.It deals with the adventures of  childhood like love, desires etc.The book concentrates on the adventurous school days and the stories are very interesting that we could relate it with the readers childhood memories.The story starts with Ruskin Bond's story and follows with other writers such as Charles Dickens,Anton Chekhov,Samuel Smiles etc.all the stories are so interesting and easy to understand.The reader gets the pleasure of reading as he read the stories.The reader doesnt get into the stage of boredom in any of the stories.Each stories are unique and each contains a solid content.

THE TURN OF THE SCREW by HENRY JAMES ( DERONIYA DAVIS)

Turn of the screw is a short story by Henry James. People gathered at the country house and started telling ghost stories, that is the beginning of the story. Then a woman began to tell the experience that she had years before.

She had the job of looking after of two children at a gentle mans house house, where the one who looked after the children before died. The gentlemen was their uncle, who said that she would never contact him for any case of the children. By keeping this in mind she went to the country house. But she finds that the children was awesome. Their name was Flora and Miles. Miles had once expelled from his school under some reasons. But Miles was extraordinary in his lessons, that pleased her.

Once in evening when she was walking, she sees a man at top of one of the tower with a terrifying face in searching for someone. She said that to the housekeeper.Again she saw him looking through a window, again searching for someone. The house keeper founds  that he was an  old employee of the house, named Peter Quint. He was dead. After some days she came to see  shadow of a women, Jessele , the maid who was looking  the children before her. That time she was with flora. She ignored the figure.

After this she began to suspect the children. Many questions arose in her mind, is the children in contact with the ghost?, and what do this ghost want? She becomes more tensed as the the story proceeds. Then she began to be in a dilemma that she has to leave the house or save the children from the evil spirits.

As the story continues the ghost began to appear at the windows, at bottom of the stairs and she who tries to protect the children from the ghosts. Like this the story becomes thrilling and interesting. Children behaved strangely especially Miles.Miles and Flora didn't behaved like children. Mile was at the age of 10 and he behaved like an adult. The maid who looked after them was 20 and experienced. From the beginning itself she was very close ad affectionate to the children. This becomes a reason for tension as she recovers what is happening to the children, but she couldn't find the reason behind this. And she also understands that the affection towards the children was not of hers.the reason behind the role played   by  Jessle and quint  is not  clearly  mentioned in the story, and the relationship of them with the children.

As we reads on we may think that the ghost and all are her illusions . Like that the 'Turn of The Screw' is a simple, interesting ghost story..

                           



                                2states(reviewed by Vandana C Mohan)


                                                        The story two states talks about two lovers,krish and Ananya from different states,Delhi and TamilNadu ,and their desire to marry each other.They met at IIMA and gradually they became friends and they fell in love with each other.And they decides to marry each other. When their parents met each other at the convocation, they realized that the way from love to marriage is not that easy.In between Krish deals  the  issue with his father.After convincing Ananya's parents, Krish invites Ananya to his cousin's wedding and Ananya found difficulties with his mother.But she adjusts with her.
                                                         And the groom finds certain difficulties in this marriage, but Ananya sort it out with her intelligence and she became a life saver to his family.And after a lot of family drama ,they both will marry and the story concludes with a happy ending.The story is very interesting as Chetan Bhagat adds his magic to the story.The author confesses that this is the story of his marriage.

The Godfather-Mario puzo(Aswin ks)

The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel

The Drover's Wife(Short Story) - Neema Mary Tom

The short-story "The Drover's Wife" is written by Henry Lawson, Australia's most famous short-story writer and poet.This short-story has the Australian bush or outback as its setting. This is revealed in the two first paragraphs, where the author makes a short and precise description of the little house and the surrounding landscape. The main conflict in "The Drover's Wife" is perhaps not so evident as we may think. At first it is quite easy to imagine that there is a conflict between the bush woman and the snake. The reason for that is that the snake is a threat to the woman. If she does not kill it, the snake can bite one of the children, which will be a disaster since it is nineteen miles to the nearest neighbor. The child would be dead before they could get help. However, this conflict is only a consequence of the main conflict, which is mentioned in a sentence early in the text, "The drover, an ex-squatter, is away with sheep. His wife and children are left here alone." The main problem is that the wife is left alone to deal with the hardships of life in the Australian bush. The point of view used in "The Drover's Wife" is the Third person point of view That allows us to see into her thoughts and feelings. Since the woman is the main character as well, we are given a complete and realistic portrait of a woman's life in the bush. As a girl-wife she had hated the lonely life in the outback, but as time passed by, she grew used to it. When the drought forced her husband to go droving, she had been left alone with the children and the problems a life in the bush would bring. Her struggles have been many. Every time her husband returns, the woman is very happy. However, she does not gush or make a fuss about it. She usually gets him something good to eat, and tidies up the children. The bushwoman loves her children above all, but has no time to show it. The children have a very harsh impression of her.I think Henry Lawson simply wanted to write a wonderful story, portraying the hardship of life in the Australian outback from a woman's point of view.