Month: November 2021

“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling, are the concomitants of…

Night and Day is Virginia’s attempt at reconciling the past and the present. Here Virginia Woolf submits to the traditional form of a novel….

Wives and Daughters is Elizabeth Gaskell’s final novel which was interrupted in its completion due to the untimely death of the author. However incomplete…

Gustave Flaubert wrote about A Sentimental Education that, “I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation—or, more accurately, the…

Howards End is Forster’s attempt to explore the social, political, cultural, and philosophical changes that were in force at the turn of the 20th…

Fathers and Sons is Turgenev’s version of the age-old tale of the battle between the older and the younger generation. Set in 19th century…

With each read of Georgette Heyer, I’m more and more drawn towards her. I believe she brings out the best in this genre. As…

I’m not a romance fan, but I certainly like historical romances. I enjoy being transported to regency and victorian periods. However, while I have…