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“The people don’t like to be conquered, and so they will not be. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started,…

This Tolstoyan masterpiece is one of the best-written books on War and its effect on people’s lives. The War is the Napoleonic war where…

“Nature’s there, for you and yours to have and enjoy. Man and Nature don’t bombard each other, but agree; they don’t compete, race one…

Maurice is said to be Forster’s homage to same-sex love. It is so. Belonging to the same lot, Forster must have felt a strong…

Brideshead Revisited is a tragicomedy set in the in-between period of the First and Second World Wars. The story is centered on an aristocratic…

This is one of the most beautiful and best books that is ever written about human suffering; a true masterpiece. It is no exaggeration…

A Room with a View is a story of love, a story of self-realization of a young woman, and a story of the Edwardian…

Our Mutual Friend is the last complete work by Dickens, and is much criticized as being “less Dickensian”. There is probably some truth in…