Fiction – Page 6 – PiyangieJay

July 2, 2022

Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

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 – Charles Dickens

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 – A. J. Cronin

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 – Nevil Shute

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

Catriona – Robert Louis Stevenson

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 – Gustave Flaubert

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

February 9, 2022

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley’s Lover has been one of the most controversial books of 20th-century classical literature. Branded as pornography and called “the foulest book in…

January 30, 2022

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea brings to us a man’s struggle to come to terms with his own existence. Antoine Roquentin is disgusted with his everyday existence. Being…

January 10, 2022

Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier

Frenchman’s Creek is the third book I read of Daphne du Maurier following My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca . And naturally, I expected a…

January 10, 2022

Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola

Thérèse Raquin is another version of the age-old story of love, lust, adultery, and murder. Yet, Émile Zola’s presentation of the story of this…