September 20, 2022 The Door – Magda Szabo The Door is a singular story of an unusual relationship between a female author and her housekeeper. Emerence, the housekeeper, is quite a character,…
September 3, 2022 Bloomsbury Girls – Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner is a sequel to her debut The Jane Austen Society. Like in her debut novel, Jenner has chosen a…
August 15, 2022 The Words – Jean Paul Sartre 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 The Aeneid – Virgil 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 The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wild 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 No Exit – Jean-Paul Satre “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 Gentlmen – Tadeusz Borowski 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 – Thomas Mann 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 Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 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 – Charles Dickens Oliver Twist is the darkest and most depressing novel by Dickens that I have read by far. It brings you some of the wickedest…