Pennyworth Books

Bruno is a 9year old boy living in Berlin with his elder sister and parents. His world is turned upside down when his father, who has an unusual job and is well regarded by a character known as The Fury, is assigned a new job which involves travelling far away to a desolate place known as Out-With.

Bruno is not very impressed with his new home and misses his friends in Berlin. Just like any innocent 9 year old, Bruno struggles to make sense of the world around him and never more so than now.

Bruno is left to entertain himself during the long lonely days and embarks on an expedition around the perimeter of the compound which neighbours his new home. It is during this expedition that he meets a young boy who is the same age and they become friends. All that separates these two young boys, as far as…

The term Renaissance means “rebirth” or “reawakening”. This term was widely spread all over the “Dark Age”. The wave of Renaissance started in Italy during 14th Century. Gradually the huge wave came towards Europe and England. Renaissance created a storm in each and every field of human lives. Due to Renaissance new discoveries were made in the field of knowledge. New geographical discoveries were completed. People were raising their voice against different religious dogmas and Christian theologies.

Now inhabitants wanted to know the unknown material. They were fonder of beauty and creativity. People were started to having high ambition; they were having interest in power, money, and lust. Even we get the idea of new world in the writing of Machiavelli especially in “The Prince”. He encouraged us to have all pleasure of the world, while disregarding the ethics and conventional principles.

Christopher Marlowe is also fond of Renaissance and its impacts.…

The year is 1955. The Fonz is blasting “Rock Around the Clock” on the jukebox and the McFlys are going steady thanks to a confused teen with a tricked-out DeLorean. Greasers and poodle skirts abound. America is prosperous, the middle class is enormous, suburbia is ubiquitous and, aside from the constant looming threat of global nuclear annihilation, life really couldn’t get more swell.

That is, if you’re white, straight, and sober. Never you mind the repression, segregation, homelessness, and suicide, the alcoholism, heroin, peyote and Benzedrine, the criminalized homosexuality and anonymous intercourse in the park, the madness, strait jackets, shock therapy and unconsenting lobotomies – and, of course, the censorship that tried to keep it all under wraps.

On the evening of October seventh, in an art gallery in San Francisco, a then-unknown Allen Ginsberg gave his first performance of “Howl,” a sprawling ode to the forgotten and discarded members of his…