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November 11, 2023

Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda

When it comes to poetry, my interest is centered on the British Romantic era, the only exception being epic poetry. Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems…

November 11, 2023

The Signalman – Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is a favourite author of mine. Yet, I haven’t read many short stories written by him. I have read his Christmas short…

November 11, 2023

Selected Short Stories – Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is one of a kind. She doesn’t write traditional stories that we are so used to reading. They are plotless for most…

November 11, 2023

Narcissus and Goldmund – Hermann Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund is a beautifully written story of two medieval men who search for meaning and truth in life. They meet each other…

November 11, 2023

A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh is a cynical satire on the aristocratic and upper-class society. Being a traditionalist, Waugh resented the modern…

November 11, 2023

Poor Folk – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Poor Folk is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s debut novel. Written in the epistolary style, this novella promises the potential of the great author he would become….

July 25, 2023

The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy

I have not read Thomas Hardy for some time. There were reasons for it. A few years back, after I read and fell in…

July 25, 2023

Demian – Hermann Hesse

Demian is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Hermann Hesse. Combining Hesse’s own experiences with theories of hypnoanalysis of Carl Jung, Nietzschean philosophy, and Eastern…

July 3, 2023

J’Accuse – Emile Zola

Emile Zola is one of the most gifted French authors. His works won’t disappoint readers who expect more than mere storytelling. Through his work,…

July 3, 2023

My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

I never thought that I would experience yet another Lolita in my life. But My Dark Vanessa is a similar kind, because I found…

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