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Category: Classics

May 5, 2023

Germinal – Emile Zola

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…

April 1, 2023

Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the best work I’ve read after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, which I found profoundly informative to amateur writers like…

April 1, 2023

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

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…

March 24, 2023

Within a Budding Grove/In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time #2) – Marcel Proust

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…

February 10, 2023

Idylls of the King – Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King is a beautiful retelling of the Arthurian legend. In blank verse, Tennyson tells us the coming of Arthur, the romantic…

January 10, 2023

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

“…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…

January 1, 2023

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities is quite a strange book. It chronicles the dialogue between Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, and Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, wherein…

January 1, 2023

Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire #3)- Anthony Trollope

Considered his best work by Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne is a sensitive story, exposing Victorian tyranny and hypocrisy on high birth and social class….

December 24, 2022

The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

This is my first exposure to Graham Greene. Two of his books have been in my personal collection for about a year now, somehow…

December 21, 2022

Paris Spleen – Charles Baudelaire

Paris Spleen is a retelling of Les Fleurs du Mal in a more profound and elaborate manner. It’s more powerful with its touch on…

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