November 26, 2021 The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence is basically a love triangle. Newland Archer is a wealthy lawyer of upper-class New York society, who is engaged to…
November 26, 2021 The Republic – Plato The Republic is where Plato lays down his ideas of an ideal state and its rulers. Plato’s Utopian state is one which is just…
November 26, 2021 Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton is the very first novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell. Living in the industrial city of Manchester and having firsthand witnessed the poor…
November 26, 2021 The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy The story of The Death of Ivan Ilych profoundly touches on the concepts of life and death. Although I have come across books that…
November 26, 2021 The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent is by far the most complex classic I read for this year. It is a classic which is conceptually modern. Built…
November 25, 2021 Kidnapped (David Balfour #1) – Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped is a young adult adventure story. The protagonist, the young David Balfour, having become an orphan, takes on a journey to find his…
November 25, 2021 Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 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…
November 25, 2021 The Overcoat – Nikolai Gogol The Overcoat tells the story of the life and death of one Akaky Akakievich, a government official in a certain department. The first part…
November 25, 2021 Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2) 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…
November 25, 2021 The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1) – Anthony Trollope 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…