November 5, 2021 A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”. The opening line says all that is needed to be said about…
November 5, 2021 Tenant of the Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall is the second novel and my first reading of Anne Bronte. The first thought that came to mind…
November 4, 2021 The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope…
November 4, 2021 The Moon is Down – John Steinbeck “The people don’t like to be conquered, and so they will not be. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started,…
November 4, 2021 The Fall – Albert Camus It is no easy task to review a book by Albert Camus. His books are deeply philosophical and often thought-provoking. You need to summon…
November 4, 2021 Paradise Lost – John Milton Paradise Lost was a literary product that was born from the need for an English epic poem. Greeks had Homer’s The Iliad and The…
September 21, 2021 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy This Tolstoyan masterpiece is one of the best-written books on War and its effect on people’s lives. The War is the Napoleonic war where…
September 11, 2021 Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun “Nature’s there, for you and yours to have and enjoy. Man and Nature don’t bombard each other, but agree; they don’t compete, race one…
September 11, 2021 Maurice – E.M. Forster Maurice is said to be Forster’s homage to same-sex love. It is so. Belonging to the same lot, Forster must have felt a strong…
August 1, 2021 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited is a tragicomedy set in the in-between period of the First and Second World Wars. The story is centered on an aristocratic…