Category: Fiction

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…

North and South was my first Gaskell read. I read it after watching the BBC TV series and perhaps due to the influence of…

“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, at least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure for…

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This opening sentence sums up the main theme of this…

After long years of avoiding him, I finally managed to sum up my courage and read John Steinbeck. Now one may ask me why…