Category: Fiction

Mary Barton is the very first novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell. Living in the industrial city of Manchester and having firsthand witnessed the poor…

The story of The Death of Ivan Ilych profoundly touches on the concepts of life and death. Although I have come across books that…

The Secret Agent is by far the most complex classic I read for this year. It is a classic which is conceptually modern. Built…

Kidnapped is a young adult adventure story. The protagonist, the young David Balfour, having become an orphan, takes on a journey to find his…

My understanding of Gulliver’s Travels was that it is a children/young adult adventure story. I really don’t know how I formed this opinion, but…

The Overcoat tells the story of the life and death of one Akaky Akakievich, a government official in a certain department. The first part…

This is by far the best Trollope novel that I’ve read. His writing is clever, satirical, and almost hilarious that I felt as if…

I’ll be frank and admit that The Warden by Anthony Trollope kind of disappointed my expectation. I’ve heard many good things about this first…

When I came across The Blue Castle a few years ago, I thought it was merely a young adult romance. I don’t read romance…

I fell in love with The Phantom of the Opera after watching the 2004 movie adaptation. Since then I have wanted to read the…