Category: Classics

The Guermantes Way is the third volume of In Search of Lost Time. This volume sets the stage for the story proper to unfold,…

Stendhal wrote The Red and the Black with a twofold intention. The first is to present a psychological portrayal of an ambitious provincial young…

This book turned out to be quite different from what I expected. From the synopsis, I gathered the novel to be a coloured woman’s…

Germinal is one of the most moving novels written about the sufferings of the working class. Zola’s undisguised sympathy for them flows abundantly throughout…

This was a nightmare of a read. I’ve been postponing this read for ever so long, and now I feel perhaps I should have…

Within a Budding Grove or In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second part of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost…

“…wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…