Category: Fiction

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…

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…

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…

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….

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

The Guermantes Way is the third volume of In Search of Lost Time. This volume sets the stage for the story proper to unfold,…

Stendhal wrote The Red and the Black with a twofold intention. The first is to present a psychological portrayal of an ambitious provincial young…

This book turned out to be quite different from what I expected. From the synopsis, I gathered the novel to be a coloured woman’s…