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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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January 25, 2025

Ghosts – Henrik Ibsen

“I’m inclined to think that we are all ghosts, every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers…

January 25, 2025

Augustus – John Williams

Augustus by John Williams is one of the best books I have read. I have grown more stingy with my rating lately, but I…

January 10, 2025

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5 & #6) – Marcel Proust

This book comprises Volumes 5 (The Captive) and 6 (The Fugitive) of In Search of Lost Time. In these two volumes, we go through…

January 10, 2025

The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time contains two powerful, profound, and intelligent essays written on racism. The first essay named “My Dungeons Shook” is a letter…

January 10, 2025

Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time #4) – Marcel Proust

This volume of In Search of Lost Time was a bit disappointing. Up to this fourth volume, I enjoyed Proust’s narrative, the beautiful and…

December 28, 2024

Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf

In all my reviews of Virginia Woolf novels, there is one thing I repeat. It is that she doesn’t write stories to conform to…

December 28, 2024

Absalom, Absalom – William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom is my first novel by William Faulkner. It is also one of the most complex books I have read. However, knowing the…

December 7, 2024

Barnaby Rudge – Charles Dickens

Barnaby Rudge is the first historical novel Dickens wrote. The other is A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens wrote only two historical novels and…

December 5, 2024

Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri

The beginning of my reader-author relationship with Jhumpa Lahiri was not pleasant. I read The Namesake for an assignment for my MA, and while…

December 5, 2024

The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig

This memoir of Stefan Zweig is one man’s yearning for a lost yesterday. Zweig lived through two world wars, witnessed how the society gradually…

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