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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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March 9, 2023

A Disguise – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema

The dark fashion glasses, Blue or purple blusher strokes, Full lips with blood red lipstick – She is one of a kind Behind closed…

March 9, 2023

A Romantic Dream – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema.

I want to walk on the shore with you, hand in hand, Looking at the white waves kissing the shore, Listening to the soft…

March 8, 2023

The Hour of Mayhem – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema

A mass of humans bustle over the platform; An anxious air above them The stinking clothes and crumpled faces paint a picture of exhaustion…

March 8, 2023

Heathcliff, the Tormented Soul of Wuthering Heights – Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema

Oh Heathcliff, the gypsy orphan The stranger to the moors Unwelcomed at Wuthering Heights Did you bring a demon to this wild north? Or…

February 10, 2023

Idylls of the King – Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King is a beautiful retelling of the Arthurian legend. In blank verse, Tennyson tells us the coming of Arthur, the romantic…

January 10, 2023

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

“…wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…

January 1, 2023

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities is quite a strange book. It chronicles the dialogue between Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, and Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, wherein…

January 1, 2023

Doctor Thorne – Anthony Trollope

Considered his best work by Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne is a sensitive story, exposing Victorian tyranny and hypocrisy on high birth and social class….

December 24, 2022

The End of the Affair – Graham Greene

This is my first exposure to Graham Greene. Two of his books have been in my personal collection for about a year now, somehow…

December 21, 2022

Paris Spleen – Charles Baudelaire

Paris Spleen is a retelling of Les Fleurs du Mal in a more profound and elaborate manner. It’s more powerful with its touch on…

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