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December 9, 2022

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol is my most favourite Christmas story. Scrooge has been an interesting character for me not only because I liked him (not…

November 20, 2022

The Grapes of Wrath, which earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize and later paved the way for the Nobel literature Prize, is a sympathetic story…

October 30, 2022

“Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We’ve lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds…

October 15, 2022

The Antiquary is the most humorous historical fiction in the Waverley series that I’ve read so far. Sir Walter Scott pens a satirical story…

August 15, 2022

The Words is one of the most interesting autobiographies I’ve read. Although it mainly covers the first ten years of the life of Jean-Paul…

August 11, 2022

History records that Virgil wrote his epic poem The Aeneid to fulfill two purposes. One is to restore the faith among Romans in the…

July 28, 2022

This review is written after having read both versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray. While I enjoyed the direct uncensored version, it was…

July 17, 2022

“You remember all we were told about the torture chambers, the fire, and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for…

July 17, 2022

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a collection of short stories that states a brutally true account of horror and survival…

July 2, 2022

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, as the subtitle implies, tells the story of the decline of one influential German family from its height….