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Month: January 2022

January 30, 2022

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea brings to us a man’s struggle to come to terms with his own existence. Antoine Roquentin is disgusted with his everyday existence. Being…

January 17, 2022

Aurora Leigh – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Aurora Leigh is an epic poem which Elizabeth Barrett Browning herself styled as a “novel in verse” to which she has poured her profound…

January 10, 2022

Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier

Frenchman’s Creek is the third book I read of Daphne du Maurier following My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca . And naturally, I expected a…

January 10, 2022

Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola

Thérèse Raquin is another version of the age-old story of love, lust, adultery, and murder. Yet, Émile Zola’s presentation of the story of this…

January 3, 2022

The Gambler – Fyodor Dostoevsky

After this second reading, I’m forced to change my entire opinion on this book. This was my introduction to Dostoevsky, so I didn’t know…

January 1, 2022

Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck

The Winter of Our Discontent is the grand finale of John Steinbeck’s fictitious creation. Deriving the title from William Shakespeare’s Richard III opening lines…

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