Ready Reference Treatise: A Death in the Family

By Raja Sharma

This autobiographical novel describes the events which took place in the life of the author in 1915 when he father had gone out of town to see his own father, who had had a heart attack.

While his father was coming back home, he had a car accident and he was killed. The novel presents a picture of the life of people in Knoxville, Tennessee. The story reveals how the young widow suffers her loss and how her two children are affected. It also shows how the accident affects her atheist father and her alcoholic brother-in-law.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Dec 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301190157

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: A Death in the Family

Raja Sharma

Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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Preface

Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.

But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

I would strongly advise all students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

All the best

Raja Sharma

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