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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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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…

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