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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 23, 2021

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

What attracted me to Bleak House was the Chancery Court suit of Jarndyce V Jarndyce. Having always had an interest in stories with legal…

November 23, 2021

Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time #1) Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the rare books that come your way. After…

November 23, 2021

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

This is one of the greatest books I have read in my life. The book is my first Wilkie Collins and I’m really glad…

November 23, 2021

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

I first read this book back in school for the English class and remember disliking it very much. The characters were too black and…

November 23, 2021

Lorna Doone – R.D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone, a Romance in Exmoor is a beautiful romance and adventure story set in the South West of England during the Monmouth Rebellion….

November 23, 2021

The Odyssey – Homer

Trojan War is ended and the Greeks are returning home with victory and their loot. But the homecoming is not so easy, for they…

November 23, 2021

The Iliad – Homer

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, which presents his interpretation of the events that took place during a few weeks…

November 23, 2021

Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple #12) – Agatha Christie

Sleeping Murder, the last murder-mystery of the Miss Marple series, is, to me, the best one of the series. It is also one of…

November 23, 2021

Curtain (Hercule Poirot #42) – Agatha Christie

It’s with a heavy heart that I read this last novel in the Poirot series. I’ve been in companionship with him and solving mysteries…

November 23, 2021

The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues – Plato

“No man who goes to war with you or any other multitude, honestly struggling against the commission of unrighteousness and wrong in the state,…

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