Category: Fiction

“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…

The Master and Margarita is undoubtedly the most unusual book I have read. The book is written in two parts: The first part opens…

What Virginia Woolf does to me by her books no author living or dead has been able to do. She with her poetry and…

In this second reading, I realized that although I have liked the book after my first reading, I hardly have understood it. In Mrs….

Crime and Punishment is one of the most heartfelt stories that I have read. Never a book is written about agonies of a human…