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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

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…

November 25, 2021

Resurrection – Leo Tolstoy

Resurrection is one man’s story of atonement for a sin committed in his youth. Partly based on a true story and partly autobiographical, the…

November 25, 2021

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises is the story of a “lost generation”, a group of British and American ex-pats who were ex-servicemen of World War…

November 25, 2021

Notes From Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

I found Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground to be quite a different work from his other works. Dostoevsky’s writing style adopted in this novella and…

November 25, 2021

The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas

I’m really at a loss as to how I should review this book. I’m burdened with mixed feelings, both positive and negative. They are…

November 24, 2021

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls is a work of pure satire. There is no section of Russian society that this work doesn’t touch. It scorns the Russian…

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