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War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

This Tolstoyan masterpiece is one of the best-written books on War and its effect on people’s lives. The War is the Napoleonic war where Russia was invaded by a strong French army conquering Moscow, and the subsequent defeat and flight of the conquering army.

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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 need to express himself through fiction.

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Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

This is one of the most beautiful and best books that is ever written about human suffering; a true masterpiece.

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December 15, 2022

Les Fleurs du Mal – Charles Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is an unusual collection of poetry in its bold thematic exposition of taboo subjects and darker…

December 9, 2022

Man and Wife – Wilkie Collins

Intriguing, suspenseful, and exciting, Man and Wife is another excellent work by Wilkie Collins. Though commonly associated with sensation fiction, most of his works…

December 9, 2022

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol is my most favourite Christmas story. Scrooge has been an interesting character for me not only because I liked him (not…

November 20, 2022

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath, which earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize and later paved the way for the Nobel literature Prize, is a sympathetic story…

October 30, 2022

Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We’ve lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds…

October 15, 2022

The Antiquary – Sir Walter Scott

The Antiquary is the most humorous historical fiction in the Waverley series that I’ve read so far. Sir Walter Scott pens a satirical story…

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…

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