September 11, 2021 Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun “Nature’s there, for you and yours to have and enjoy. Man and Nature don’t bombard each other, but agree; they don’t compete, race one…
September 11, 2021 Maurice – E.M. Forster Maurice is said to be Forster’s homage to same-sex love. It is so. Belonging to the same lot, Forster must have felt a strong…
August 1, 2021 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited is a tragicomedy set in the in-between period of the First and Second World Wars. The story is centered on an aristocratic…
July 29, 2021 Les Misérables – Victor Hugo This is one of the most beautiful and best books that is ever written about human suffering; a true masterpiece. It is no exaggeration…
July 29, 2021 A Room with a View – E.M. Forster A Room with a View is a story of love, a story of self-realization of a young woman, and a story of the Edwardian…
July 27, 2021 Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend is the last complete work by Dickens, and is much criticized as being “less Dickensian”. There is probably some truth in…
July 27, 2021 The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco I was attracted to The Name of the Rose some years ago when I learned that its story is centered on a medieval mystery…
July 27, 2021 The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita is undoubtedly the most unusual book I have read. The book is written in two parts: The first part opens…
July 27, 2021 The Waves – Virginia Woolf What Virginia Woolf does to me by her books no author living or dead has been able to do. She with her poetry and…
July 24, 2021 A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles “If a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them”. How true this is? Doesn’t every one…