Shri Shamrao Patil (Yadravkar) Educational & Charitable Trust’s

SHARAD INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY,
POLYTECHNIC, YADRAV

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE &

HUMANITIES
MICRO PROJECT REPORT
IN

ENGLISH

Project Title

Branch:
Academic Year: 2022-23
Semester: FIRST
 Shri Shamrao Patil (Yadravkar) Educational & Charitable Trust’s

SHARAD INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY,
POLYTECHNIC, YADRAV.
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that,

Name of the Student

We have successfully completed the Project work entitled “summaries the contents of
famous books” under my supervision, in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the FY
Diploma in subject ENGLISH, and the report submitted to M.S.B.T.E. MUMBAI. for academic year
2022-2023.

Date: 10-11-2022
Place: S.I.T. Polytechnic, Yadrav.
 Project Guide Head Dept. of Science &
Humanities

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
It is our great pleasure to present the honor and sincere gratitude to our guide Ms. D.
T. Jadhav Lecturer, Dept. of SCIENCE & HUMANITIES. Sharad Institute of Technology,
Polytechnic, Yadrav helped in joining the hands in developing each and every steps of this
project and for valuable guidance and constant encouragement during completion of project
work. It was my privilege and pleasure to work under his valuable guidance. We are indeed
gratefully to him for providing me helpful suggestions. Due to his constant encouragement
and inspiration, we could complete our project work.
We are very thankful to Principal, Sharad Institute of Technology, Polytechnic, Yadrav.

Our grateful thanks to Ms. D. T. Jadhav faculty of Science and Humanities Department, for
their valuable guidance, support and constant encouragement.

We express thanks to our family and friends for their support and encouragement at every
stage of successful completion of this project work.

Our sincere thanks to all those who have directly or indirectly helped me to carry out this
work.

Name of the student Roll No

1) INDRAJIT KAMBLE 11734

2) PRAMOD KAMBLE 11735

3) PARAS KARYAPPA 11736

 4) PRUTHVIRAJ KATKAR 11737

5) SUSHANT KHEMANE 11738

INVISIBLE MAN BOOK

Plot summary...

A mysterious man, Griffin,

referred to as 'the stranger', arrives at the local inn
owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hall of the English
village of Aping, West Sussex, during a
snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved,
thick coat and gloves; his face is hidden entirely
by bandages except for a prosthetic nose, and he
wears a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively
reclusive, irascible, unfriendly, and introverted.
He demands to be left alone and spends most of
his time in his rooms working with a set of
chemicals and laboratory apparatus, only
venturing out at night. He also causes a lot of
accidents, but when Mrs. Hall addresses this, the
stranger angrily demands that the cost of the
damage be put on his bill. While Griffin is staying at the inn, hundreds of strange glass bottles arrive.
Many local townspeople believe this to be very odd. He becomes the talk of the village with many
theorizing as to his origins.
Meanwhile, a mysterious burglary occurs in the village. Griffin is running out of money and
is trying to find a way to pay for his board and lodging. When his landlady demands that he pay his
bill and quit the premises, he reveals his invisibility to her in a fit of anger. An attempt to apprehend
the stranger by police officer Jaffer is thwarted when he undresses to take advantage of his
invisibility, fights off his would-be captors, and flees to the South Downs.
References……
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Westfahl, Gary, ed. (2009). The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected
Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and
Fantasy. McFarland & Company. p. 41. ISBN 978-0786437221.
Wells, H. G. (1897). "Epilogue". The Invisible Man. London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. The
covers are weather-worn and tinged with an algal green--for once they sojourned in a ditch and some
of the pages have been washed blank by dirty water.
Wells 1996, p. xv.
Wells 1996, p. xviii.
Wells 2017a, p. xvii.
 Wells 1996, p. xxix.
Wells, H.G. (2017b). The Time Machine and The Invisible Man. Race Point Publishing. p.
xvi.

A PASSAGE TO
INDIA

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Arrival
A young British schoolmistress, Adela
Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, visit
the fictional city of Chandrapore, British India.
Adela is to decide if she wants to marry Mrs.
Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate.

Meanwhile Dr. Aziz, a young Indian Muslim physician, is dining with two of his Indian
friends and conversing about whether it is possible to be a friend of an Englishman. During the meal,
a summons arrives from Major Callendar, Aziz's unpleasant superior at the hospital. Aziz hastens to
Callendar's bungalow as ordered but is delayed by a flat tyre and difficulty in finding a tonga and the
major has already left in a huff.

Disconsolate, Aziz walks down the road toward the railway station. When he sees his
favourite mosque, he enters on impulse. He sees a strange Englishwoman there and yells at her not to
profane this sacred place. The woman, Mrs. Moore, has respect for native customs. This disarms Aziz,
and the two chat and part as friends.
Literary criticism
The nature of critiques of A Passage to India is largely based upon the era of writing and the
nature of the critical work. While many earlier critiques found that Forster's book showed an
inappropriate friendship between colonizers and the colonized, new critiques on the work draw
attention to the depictions of sexism, racism and imperialism in the novel.
Reviews of A Passage to India when it was first published challenged specific details and
attitudes included in the book that Forster drew from his own time in India.[10] Early critics also
expressed concern at the interracial camaraderie between Aziz and Fielding in the book.[11] Others
saw the book as a vilification of humanist perspectives on the importance of interpersonal
relationships, and effects of colonialism on Indian society.[12] More recent critiques by postcolonial
theorists and literary critics have reinvestigated the text as a work of Orientalist fiction contributing to
a discourse on colonial relationships by a European. Today it is one of the seminal texts in the
postcolonial Orientalist discourse, among other books like Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and
Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
 THE GREAT GATSBY

Plot summary

George Wilson and his wife Myrtle live in the

"valley of ashes", a refuse dump (shown in the above
photograph) historically located in New York City
during the 1920s. Today, the area is Flushing
Meadows–Corona Park.
George Wilson and his wife Myrtle live in the
"valley of ashes", a refuse dump (shown in the above
photograph) historically located in New York City
during the 1920s. Today, the area is Flushing
Meadows–Corona Park.
In spring 1922, Nick Carraway—a Yale alumnus from the Midwest and a World War I
veteran—journeys to New York City to obtain employment as a bond salesman. He rents a bungalow
in the Long Island village of West Egg, next to a luxurious estate inhabited by Jay Gatsby, an
enigmatic multi-millionaire who hosts dazzling soirées yet doesn't partake in them.
One evening, Nick dines with a distant relative, Daisy Buchanan, in the fashionable town of
East Egg. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, formerly a Yale football star whom Nick knew during
his college days. The couple has recently relocated from Chicago to a mansion directly across the bay
from Gatsby's estate. There, Nick encounters Jordan Baker, an insolent flapper and golf champion
who is a childhood friend of Daisy's. Jordan confides to Nick that Tom keeps a mistress, Myrtle
Wilson, who brazenly telephones him at his home and who lives in the "valley of ashes", a sprawling
refuse dump.[33] That evening, Nick sees Gatsby standing alone on his lawn, staring at a green light
across the bay.
Major characters
Edith Cummings, a premier amateur golfer, inspired the character of Jordan Baker. A friend
of Ginevra King, she was one of Chicago's famous debutantes in the Jazz Age.
Edith Cummings, a premier amateur golfer, inspired the character of Jordan Baker. A friend
of Ginevra King, she was one of Chicago's famous debutantes in the Jazz Age.
Nick Carraway – a Yale University alumnus from the Midwest, a World War I veteran, and a
newly arrived resident of West Egg, age 29 (later 30) who serves as the first-person narrator. He is
Gatsby's neighbour and a bond salesman. Carraway is easy-going and optimistic, although this latter
quality fades as the novel progresses. He ultimately returns to the Midwest after despairing of the
decadence and indifference of the eastern United States.
Jay Gatsby (originally James "Jimmy" Gatz) – a young, mysterious millionaire with shady
business connections (later revealed to be a bootlegger), originally from North Dakota.
 THE HOBBIT

Plot summary

This article is about the children's book. For other uses, see Hobbit (disambiguation).
"There and Back Again" redirects here. For other uses, see There and Back Again (disambiguation).
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.
It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and
awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. The book remains
popular and is recognized as a classic in children's literature.

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The Hobbit is set within Tolkien's fictional universe and follows the quest of home-
loving Bilbo Baggins, the titular hobbit, to win a share of the treasure guarded by a dragon named
Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from his light-hearted, rural surroundings into more sinister
territory.
The story is told in the form of an episodic quest, and most chapters introduce a specific creature or
type of creature of Tolkien's geography. Bilbo gains a new level of maturity, competence, and wisdom
by accepting the disreputable, romantic, fey, and adventurous sides of his nature and applying his wits
and common sense. The story reaches its climax in the Battle of Five Armies, where many of the
characters and creatures from earlier chapters re-emerge to engage in conflict.

Personal growth and forms of heroism are central themes of the story, along with motifs of warfare.
These themes have led critics to view Tolkien's own experiences during World War I as instrumental
in shaping the story. The author's scholarly knowledge of Germanic philology and interest in
mythology and fairy tales are often noted as influences.

The publisher was encouraged by the book's critical and financial success and, therefore, requested a
sequel. As Tolkien's work progressed on its successor, The Lord of the Rings, he made retrospective
accommodations for it in The Hobbit.

THE STAND

Plot summary

An extremely contagious and lethal strain of influenza is

developed as a biological weapon in a secret U.S.
Department of Defence laboratory in
northern California. It is estimated to be 99.4% fatal.
The Complete and Uncut Edition includes a prologue
detailing the development of the virus and the security
breach that causes its accidental release. Security guard
Charles Campion manages to escape before the facility
is locked down and takes his family out of the state.
After a couple of days, his car crashes at a gas station in
Arnette, Texas. Bystanders and ambulance workers
become infected by the dying Campion and his dead
wife and child. The United States Army attempts to
isolate Arnette, going so far as to execute civilians
attempting to flee, but in vain; the virus, christened the "superflu" or "Captain Trips", spreads across the
country. The government then has its agents

(unknowingly) release the virus in the USSR, its satellite states and China to guarantee their destruction as
well.

When martial law fails to contain the virus, a global pandemic of apocalyptic proportions kills nearly the
entire world population within a month. The military collapses due to mass desertions and mutinies, and
society soon follows with the near-extinction of humanity. Some of the few who are immune also die,
unable either to accept the loss of their loved ones or to survive in a world where they must fend for
themselves.

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The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first

published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its
aftermath, in which the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of
either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other. King started writing the story in February
1975,[1] seeking to create an epic in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings. The book was difficult for him to
write because of the large number of characters and storylines.
In 1990, The Stand was reprinted as a Complete and Uncut Edition. King restored over 400 pages from
texts that were initially reduced from his original manuscript, revised the order of the chapters, shifted the
novel's setting from 1980 to 10 years forward, and accordingly corrected a number of cultural references.
The Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand is Stephen King's longest stand-alone work at 1,152 pages,
surpassing his 1,138-page novel It. The book has sold 4.5 million copies.

DON QUIXOTE

Plot summary

Cervantes wrote that the first chapters were

taken from "the archives of La Mancha", and
the rest were translated from an Arabic text
by the Moorish historian Cide Hamete
Benengeli. This metafictional trick appears to
give a greater credibility to the text, implying
that Don Quixote is a real character and that
this has been researched from the logs of the
events that truly occurred several decades
prior to the recording of this account and the
work of magical sage historians that are
known to be involved here (this getting some
explaining). However, it was also common
practice in that era for fictional works to make
some creative pretense for seeming factual to the readers, such as the common opening line of
fairy tales "Once upon a time in a land far away...".
In the course of their travels, the protagonists meet innkeepers, prostitutes, goat-herders,
soldiers, priests, escaped convicts and scorned lovers. The aforementioned characters
sometimes tell tales that incorporate events from the real world. Their encounters are magnified
by Don Quixote's imagination into chivalrous quests. Don Quixote's tendency to intervene
violently in matters irrelevant to himself, and his habit of not paying debts, result in privations,
injuries, and humiliations (with Sancho often the victim). Finally, Don Quixote is persuaded to
return to his home village. The narrator hints that there was a third quest, saying that records of it
have been lost, "...at any rate derived from authentic documents; tradition has merely preserved
in the memory of La Mancha..." this third sally. A leaden box in possession of an old physician
that was discovered at an old hermitage being rebuilt is related, containing "certain parchment
manuscripts in Gothic character, but in Castilian verse" that seems to know the story even of Don
Quixote's burial and having "sundry epitaphs and eulogies". The narrator requesting not much for
the "vast toil which it has cost him in examining and searching the Manchegan archives"
volunteers to present what can be made out of them with the good nature of "...and will be
encouraged to seek out and produce other histories..."

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Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts,

in 1605 and 1615, its full title is The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha or, in
Spanish, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (changing in Part 2 to El ingenioso
caballero don Quixote] de la Mancha). A founding work of Western literature, it is often labelled
as the first modern novel and one of the greatest works ever written. Don Quixote is also one of
the most-translated books in the world.