Munshi Premchand, one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature was born on July 31, 1880. Premchand was born in a small village Lamhi, near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. His name was Dhanpat Rai. He lost his mother at a very young age and was brought up by his grandmother. But after his grandmother died, his father remarried. His stepmother did not love him, and Premchand grew up missing his mother. This loneliness led him to fiction in which

The first Penguin paperback book is published in England, kick-starting the paperback revolution on July 30, 1935. The introduction of steam-powered printing press, pulp mills, automatic typesetting and a good well-connected railway network led to many changes and developments in the printing and publishing business. Taking advantage of the new developments, Simms and Mcintyre of Belfast, Routledge & Sons and Ward & Lock mass-produced cheap yellowback or paperback editions of already available works. They distributed and sold them throughout the British

The first volume of Mein Kampf, the philosophical autobiography of Adolf Hitler, was published on July 18, 1925. Mein Kampf was clearly a blueprint of Hitler’s agenda for Germany and the Third Reich and a clear indication of what Europe would go through from 1939 to 1945. Mein Kampf is a book by Hitler, but he did not sit down and write it. It was during his prison stay in Landsberg in 1923-1924, he dictated it to Rudolf Hess, a fellow mate. Therefore