Kankana GhoshAnanya RoyAditi Roy

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English Best-Sellers

What is a BestSeller?• It is a book

• Is identified as extremely popular by the publishing industry

• This is done based on book trade figures

• Is published by magazines,bookstore chains

THE WAY AHEAD…

What is a bestseller?

Types of bestsellersEra of bestsellers- early, mid, modern and post

modern

Top three bestsellers of IndiaTrend of bestsellers

Conclusion

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

Types of Bestsellers

Bestsellers-the early era

Maximum number of copies printed were small.

The highly popular books were mainly religious.

Only short books became bestsellers.

The numbers printed and sold were low.

Maximum number of copies printed were small.

The highly popular books were mainly religious.

Only short books became bestsellers.

The numbers printed and sold were low.

One form of extended fictional prose narrative.

Pamela – 1st English novel in 1740

An epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson

Popular Bestsellers of Early era

Continued….

John Bunyan

John The Apostle

Bestsellers-the middle ages

‘Books of hours’ were this era’s bestseller.

• It was designed to aid private prayer.

Lavishly illustrated

Was the Golden age of Comic Books.

Popular Best-sellers of this era

Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte

Two phases - Modern & Contemporary

Divided into prewar, inter-war, postwar period.

Mainly fiction genre in the former.

Novels notably flourished in the inter-war period

Postwar-Evolution of classical science fiction.

Bestsellers – the modern era

Popular bestsellers of modern era

Rudyard Kipling

Andre Gide

POST-MODERNISM

Major characteristics:

playfulness with language

mixture of high art and popular culture

experiment in the form of novel

interest in meta-fiction

Harper Lee

J.R.R Tolkien

Renowned Bestsellers of Postmodern era

Top 3 Best-sellers of India

Chetan Bhagat

Preeti Shenoy

Walter Issacson

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Mostly read-genre of books

Conclusion

Began with a religious sentiment

‘Bible’

Evolved into the era of romanticism

‘Son’s and Lovers’ by D.H.Lawrence

Evolution of classical science fiction

‘20,000 leagues under the sea’ by Jules Verne

Development in the area of meta-fiction

‘Middle Passage’ by Charles Johnson

“Some books are to be tasted ,others to be swallowed, few to be chewed and

digested” – Francis Bacon

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