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Month: November 2021

November 26, 2021

The Sittaford Mystery – Agatha Christie

The Sittaford Mystery is another enjoyable standalone murder mystery by our queen of crime, Agatha Christie. Set in an isolated small village in Dartmoor,…

November 26, 2021

The Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Have you ever come across a book that you like, despite its dark and disturbing contents? It’s a strange feeling. But Heart of Darkness…

November 26, 2021

Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner

For a die-hard Jane Austen fan like me, a book of anything about her is too tempting to resist. So when I came across…

November 26, 2021

Sonnets from Portuguese – Elizabeth Barret Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of forty-four love poems written to Robert Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during their courtship. Apparently, they…

November 26, 2021

The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence is basically a love triangle. Newland Archer is a wealthy lawyer of upper-class New York society, who is engaged to…

November 26, 2021

The Republic – Plato

The Republic is where Plato lays down his ideas of an ideal state and its rulers. Plato’s Utopian state is one which is just…

November 26, 2021

Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Barton is the very first novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell. Living in the industrial city of Manchester and having firsthand witnessed the poor…

November 26, 2021

The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy

The story of The Death of Ivan Ilych profoundly touches on the concepts of life and death. Although I have come across books that…

November 26, 2021

The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent is by far the most complex classic I read for this year. It is a classic which is conceptually modern. Built…

November 25, 2021

Kidnapped (David Balfour #1) – Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped is a young adult adventure story. The protagonist, the young David Balfour, having become an orphan, takes on a journey to find his…

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