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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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April 28, 2022

The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King is the final part of the trilogy where the fellowship marks its victory over the Dark Lord, Sauron. The…

April 28, 2022

Catriona – Robert Louis Stevenson

Since my read of Kidnapped, I wanted to read its sequel, Catriona. But from my experience, I’m always very cautious when I tread on…

April 18, 2022

The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for…

March 11, 2022

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a tragedy. It tells the story of Emma Bovary who lived a tumultuous life between real and imagined, and whose end…

February 15, 2022

The Fellowship of the Ring (LOTR #1) – J.R.R. Tolkien

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Synopsis…

February 9, 2022

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley’s Lover has been one of the most controversial books of 20th-century classical literature. Branded as pornography and called “the foulest book in…

February 9, 2022

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is an early work of the feminist canon. Written in the late 18th century, this work brings…

January 30, 2022

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea brings to us a man’s struggle to come to terms with his own existence. Antoine Roquentin is disgusted with his everyday existence. Being…

January 17, 2022

Aurora Leigh – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Aurora Leigh is an epic poem which Elizabeth Barrett Browning herself styled as a “novel in verse” to which she has poured her profound…

January 10, 2022

Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier

Frenchman’s Creek is the third book I read of Daphne du Maurier following My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca . And naturally, I expected a…

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