February 15, 2024 The Sea, the sea – Iris Murdoch 1978 Booker Prize winner, The Sea, The Sea is my first introduction to the Irish author, Iris Murdoch. To tell the truth, I chose…
January 20, 2024 Death in Venice – Thomas Mann My literary relationship with Thomas Mann was a strained one. I have read his Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, and while I appreciate his…
January 12, 2024 Desperate Remedies – Thomas Hardy Until I came across, Desperate Remedies, I wasn’t aware that Thomas Hardy wrote sensation novels. I have read only a few Hardy novels, and…
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…