Classics – Page 11 – PiyangieJay

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…

April 18, 2022

The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for…

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 15, 2022

The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR #1) – J.R.R. Tolkien

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Synopsis…

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…

February 9, 2022

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is an early work of the feminist canon. Written in the late 18th century, this work brings…

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 17, 2022

Aurora Leigh – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Aurora Leigh is an epic poem which Elizabeth Barrett Browning herself styled as a “novel in verse” to which she has poured her profound…

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…