Classics – Page 9 – PiyangieJay

October 15, 2022

The Antiquary – Sir Walter Scott

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….

July 2, 2022

The Wind in the Willows is widely accepted as a children’s novel. To some extent, this classification is justified since its story consists of…

July 2, 2022

Oliver Twist is the darkest and most depressing novel by Dickens that I have read by far. It brings you some of the wickedest…

June 15, 2022

This essay is an in-depth discussion of Camus’s view on absurdism and how man continues his existence on the face of it. Is he…