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Explanations and Question – Answers for the lessons precribed in the ISC (Indian School Certificate) board Class 11 syllabus.
The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe About the author … Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -1849) was born in Boston. His childhood was not a happy one. His father David Poe Jr. abandoned his mother, the British Actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. She … Read more
On Being Idle Now, this is a subject on which I flatter myself I really am au fait. The gentleman who, when I was young, bathed me at wisdom’s font for nine guineas a term—no extras—used to say he never knew a boy who could … Read more
The Singing Lesson by Katherine Mansfield About the author … The author’s real name Is Kathleen Mansfield Murray. She was a New Zealander by birth who chose England as her place of living and literary pursuits. She was a prolific story writer, but didn’t live … Read more
The Hundred Dresses – II Wanda’s father had written a note to the school Principal that she sent to Miss. Mason with instruction to read it out to the class. The students were busy in sum fun activity at that time. Miss Mason asked everyone … Read more
If by Rudyard Kipling Poem … If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait … Read more
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Reading the biography of Maya Angelou (1928-2014) is a riveting experience. It is an account of a girl against whom all possible odds in life are stacked – poverty, skin color, lack of education, broken home, racial hatred, … Read more
Fritz by Satyajit Ray A word about Satyajit Ray .. Satyajit Ray(1921-92) was a man of cinematography and all other art forms that go with it. Born and brought up in Calcutta, Ray started his career as a low-paid commercial artist. Despite such a humble … Read more
Salvatore by W. Somerset Maugham About the author .. Rarely has English literature produced such a prolific short story writer, playwright, and novelist as Dr. Somerset Maugham(1874-1965). This literary genius, born in a family of legal luminaries, spurned a career in law, although it offered … Read more
On Going out for a Walk by Max Beerbohm About the author .. A humorist par excellence, Beerbohm excelled in parody and caricature. Through his writing writings and innocent satire, he brought reading pleasure to countless readers. Sir Henry Maximilian (Max, in short) Beerbohm (1872-1956) espouses his … Read more
Ode [We are the Music Makers] by Arthur O’Shaughnessy An introduction … The life of artists has seldom been a bed of roses. Winning accolades, or even earning enough to make both ends meet from this profession is, in most cases, an uphill task. The … Read more