November 26, 2021 Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner For a die-hard Jane Austen fan like me, a book of anything about her is too tempting to resist. So when I came across…
November 26, 2021 Sonnets from Portuguese – Elizabeth Barret Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of forty-four love poems written to Robert Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during their courtship. Apparently, they…
November 26, 2021 The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence is basically a love triangle. Newland Archer is a wealthy lawyer of upper-class New York society, who is engaged to…
November 26, 2021 The Republic – Plato The Republic is where Plato lays down his ideas of an ideal state and its rulers. Plato’s Utopian state is one which is just…
November 26, 2021 Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton is the very first novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell. Living in the industrial city of Manchester and having firsthand witnessed the poor…
November 26, 2021 The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy The story of The Death of Ivan Ilych profoundly touches on the concepts of life and death. Although I have come across books that…
November 26, 2021 The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent is by far the most complex classic I read for this year. It is a classic which is conceptually modern. Built…
November 25, 2021 Kidnapped (David Balfour #1) – Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped is a young adult adventure story. The protagonist, the young David Balfour, having become an orphan, takes on a journey to find his…
November 25, 2021 Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8) – P.D. James This eighth book of the Dalgliesh series takes us to a village in the headland of Norfolk where a nuclear power station is shadowing…
November 25, 2021 The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12) – P.D. James The Murder Room is all that a murder-mystery should be. Intriguing and clever mystery plot, an exciting story, an interesting set of characters, including…