June 7, 2025 Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen Northanger Abbey is a charming story that revolves around a young, innocent, and naive “heroine” (to use Austen’s words), Catherine Morland. True to Austen’s…
May 31, 2025 The Black Tulip – Alexander Dumas The Black Tulip is a brilliant work by Alexander Dumas. I truly don’t understand why this is a lesser-known work of his. In my…
May 25, 2025 Emma – Jane Austen The second reading of Emma pleasantly surprised me. After the initial embarrassment of having underappreciated this amazing work of Austen, I managed to wallow…
May 17, 2025 The Ladies’ Paradise – Émile Zola The Ladies’ Paradise, the 11th novel of Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, is a story of the coming of the modern age and the rise…
May 17, 2025 Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Mansfield Park is a different work from the rest of Jane Austen’s novels. I can say that now I’ve read them all. Jane Austen’s…
May 8, 2025 Hamlet – William Shakespeare Hamlet is the best psychological play of Shakespeare. Most of his tragedies penetrate into the characters’ psychologies, but no one comes close to Hamlet…
April 22, 2025 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of the most widely read classical romances. It is also no exaggeration to say that Pride and…
April 22, 2025 The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game is a phenomenal work. Its complex plot makes the full meaning of the novel unfathomable, but there is a certain…
April 19, 2025 Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare This is yet another interesting Shakespearean comedy. The play has one saucy and sharp tongued woman in the character of Beatrice. I’m quite new…
April 11, 2025 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen This debut publication of Jane Austen is, in my opinion, a complete book in itself, an excellent introduction to the world of Jane Austen….