Category: Fiction

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…

Hard Times is my return to Charles Dickens as an adult. I have read Oliver Twist and David Copperfield as a child. I didn’t…

Resurrection is one man’s story of atonement for a sin committed in his youth. Partly based on a true story and partly autobiographical, the…

The Sun Also Rises is the story of a “lost generation”, a group of British and American ex-pats who were ex-servicemen of World War…

I found Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground to be quite a different work from his other works. Dostoevsky’s writing style adopted in this novella and…