January 1, 2023 Doctor Thorne – Anthony Trollope Considered his best work by Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne is a sensitive story, exposing Victorian tyranny and hypocrisy on high birth and social class….
December 24, 2022 The End of the Affair – Graham Greene This is my first exposure to Graham Greene. Two of his books have been in my personal collection for about a year now, somehow…
December 9, 2022 Man and Wife – Wilkie Collins Intriguing, suspenseful, and exciting, Man and Wife is another excellent work by Wilkie Collins. Though commonly associated with sensation fiction, most of his works…
December 9, 2022 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is my most favourite Christmas story. Scrooge has been an interesting character for me not only because I liked him (not…
November 20, 2022 The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, which earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize and later paved the way for the Nobel literature Prize, is a sympathetic story…
October 30, 2022 Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky “Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We’ve lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds…
October 15, 2022 The Antiquary – Sir Walter Scott The Antiquary is the most humorous historical fiction in the Waverley series that I’ve read so far. Sir Walter Scott pens a satirical story…
August 11, 2022 The Aeneid – Virgil History records that Virgil wrote his epic poem The Aeneid to fulfill two purposes. One is to restore the faith among Romans in the…
July 28, 2022 The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wild This review is written after having read both versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray. While I enjoyed the direct uncensored version, it was…
July 2, 2022 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family – Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, as the subtitle implies, tells the story of the decline of one influential German family from its height….