Fiction – Page 6 – PiyangieJay

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

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

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, as the subtitle implies, tells the story of the decline of one influential German family from its height….

July 2, 2022

The Wind in the Willows is widely accepted as a children’s novel. To some extent, this classification is justified since its story consists of…

July 2, 2022

Oliver Twist is the darkest and most depressing novel by Dickens that I have read by far. It brings you some of the wickedest…

May 20, 2022

The Citadel is a beautiful study of an idealistic young doctor who attempts to swim against the tide of the established medical ethics and…

May 20, 2022

Pastoral is a charming old fashioned love story set in the midst of WWII. I’m not a romance fan now and rarely read the…

April 28, 2022

Since my read of Kidnapped, I wanted to read its sequel, Catriona. But from my experience, I’m always very cautious when I tread on…

March 11, 2022

Madame Bovary is a tragedy. It tells the story of Emma Bovary who lived a tumultuous life between real and imagined, and whose end…