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December 7, 2024

Barnaby Rudge – Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge is the first historical novel Dickens wrote. The other is A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens wrote only two historical novels and…

December 5, 2024

Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri

The beginning of my reader-author relationship with Jhumpa Lahiri was not pleasant. I read The Namesake for an assignment for my MA, and while…

December 5, 2024

The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig

This memoir of Stefan Zweig is one man’s yearning for a lost yesterday. Zweig lived through two world wars, witnessed how the society gradually…

December 5, 2024

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart is Achebe’s canvas to paint the picture of how the white dominion in Africa disintegrated their culture and customs, slowly reducing…

December 5, 2024

Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin

Giovanni’s Room is a beautiful tragedy written by James Baldwin. It tells the story of David, a bisexual American living in France, and how…

May 18, 2024

Autumn – Ali Smith

Autumn is Ali Smith’s response to Brexit. Clearly, she disagrees with the majority of the British’s decision to leave the European Union as demonstrated…

February 15, 2024

The Sea, the sea – Iris Murdoch

1978 Booker Prize winner, The Sea, The Sea is my first introduction to the Irish author, Iris Murdoch. To tell the truth, I chose…

January 20, 2024

Death in Venice – Thomas Mann

My literary relationship with Thomas Mann was a strained one. I have read his Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, and while I appreciate his…

January 12, 2024

A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir

Witnessing the death of a loved one is one of the most difficult situations that one can face. The mental agony of such times…

January 12, 2024

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett called his playWaiting for Godot “a tragi-comedy in two acts”. It is because, through his play, he wanted to demonstrate the tragic…

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