Prose

Simple and straight. Precise and brief. Prose is the science of writing with clarity, brevity and a little bit of wit. Prose is where beginners should start their reading quests before going to those “loose, baggy monsters” or novels as mentioned by Henry James. This page provides a collection of prose summaries with a lot to learn from:

1. An Area of Darkness
2. Novelist as Teacher
3. Vivekananda’s World
4. Novel (as a literary form)
5. Indian character
6. Commonwealth Literature, an introduction
7. Odour of Chrysanthemums
8. To Room Nineteen
9. Modern English Poetry BLV Unit 1
10. Modern English Drama
11. Modern English Fiction
12. Self-Reliance
13. I Have A Dream
14. Hachiko
15. Winning of Friends
16. Sparrows K A Abbas