Category: Fiction

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. The volume sets the stage for the story-proper to unfold, after…

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…

Germinal is one of the most moving novels written about the sufferings of the working class. Zola’s undisguised sympathy for them flows abundantly throughout…

This was a nightmare of a read. I’ve been postponing this read for ever so long, and now I feel perhaps I should have…

Within a Budding Grove or In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second part of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost…

“…wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…