Classics – Page 17 – PiyangieJay

November 23, 2021

The Mysterious Affairs at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) – Agatha Christie

This is my first introduction to Agatha Christie. Having never read her before, I was interested in starting her with the Poirot series which…

November 22, 2021

The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard is a story that portrays the end of an era of landed gentry in Russia. With the fall of the nobility,…

November 22, 2021

The Saga of Gösta Berling – Selma Lagerlöf

This debut novel of Selma Lagerlöf is an uncommon novel. Belonging to the genre of magical realism, the story is about one defrocked Lutheran…

November 22, 2021

The Misanthrope – Molière

Here is an author who knows how to write a play. When it comes to comedy, none amuses me the way he does. His…

November 22, 2021

Death Comes as the End – Agatha Christie

Death Comes as the End is by far the best standalone mystery that I’ve read by Agatha Christie. Its ancient setting, making it her…

November 22, 2021

Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Lady Audley’s Secret is a Victorian “sensational”. My love for “sensational” novels began with The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I read that…

November 22, 2021

Don Juan – Molière

“Hypocrisy is now a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues…All the other vices of mankind are subject to censuré, and anyone…

November 22, 2021

A Woman of No Importance – Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance is yet another drawing-room play by Oscar Wilde, where he satirizes the morals, hypocritical conventions, and general views and…

November 22, 2021

The Inspector General – Nikolai Gogol

The Inspector General by Gogol is one of the best satirical plays that I’ve read. Gogol is well known for his satire, either subtle…

November 22, 2021

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

I watched My Fair Lady about twenty years ago and all I remember is that a linguistic professor taking in a common flower girl…