With the printing press, a new reading public emerged.
(i) Printing reduced the cost of books.
(ii) The time and labor to produce each book came down. Multiple copies could be produced...
(i) Premchand had picked up the lives of ordinary people and certain social issues and depicted them in his novel ‘Sewasadan’.
(ii) Sewasadan deals mainly with the poor condition of women...
(i) Issues:
(a) The time in which Thomas Hardy wrote this novel was a time when large farmers fenced off land, bought machines and employed labourers.
(b) The old rural culture with...
Potheri: Kunjambu wrote Saraswativijayam in 1892.
The messages which the world got after reading this novel was:
(i) Caste should be done away in the society.
(ii) The book stresses the importance...
Chandrakanta, written by Devaki Nandan Khatri became the best seller.
It became popular because:
(i) His novel 'Chandrakanta' was a romantic novel with dazzling elements of fantasy.
(ii) It got immensely popularized as...
(i) 'Durgeshnandini'
(ii) He would host a Jatra in the courtyard where members of the family would be gathered.
(iii) In his room, a group of literary friends would collect to read,...
