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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 25, 2021

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

My understanding of Gulliver’s Travels was that it is a children/young adult adventure story. I really don’t know how I formed this opinion, but…

November 25, 2021

The Overcoat – Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat tells the story of the life and death of one Akaky Akakievich, a government official in a certain department. The first part…

November 25, 2021

Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2)

This is by far the best Trollope novel that I’ve read. His writing is clever, satirical, and almost hilarious that I felt as if…

November 25, 2021

The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1) – Anthony Trollope

I’ll be frank and admit that The Warden by Anthony Trollope kind of disappointed my expectation. I’ve heard many good things about this first…

November 25, 2021

Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance #2) – John Grisham

In Sycamore Row, I meet Jake Brigance, my favourite Gisham character, again. I find him three years later from his famous Hailey trial, still…

November 25, 2021

A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance #1) – John Grisham

Reading Sycamore Row took me down the memory lane to its prequel, A Time to Kill. And I realized that I haven’t written a…

November 25, 2021

The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery

When I came across The Blue Castle a few years ago, I thought it was merely a young adult romance. I don’t read romance…

November 25, 2021

The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux

I fell in love with The Phantom of the Opera after watching the 2004 movie adaptation. Since then I have wanted to read the…

November 25, 2021

Hard Times – Charles Dickens

Hard Times is my return to Charles Dickens as an adult. I have read Oliver Twist and David Copperfield as a child. I didn’t…

November 25, 2021

The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince is a political treatise written by a Florentine diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli. In a time of foreign invasion and rule of the different…

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