Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – Review
Chinua Achebe’s epoch-making novel, Things Fall Apart, was the first major work by an African writer that received immense fame worldwide. First published in 1958, Things Fall Apart announced the…
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy – Review
Jude the Obscure is a novel written by Thomas Hardy and it was published as a novel form in the year 1895. Like many other novels by Thomas Hardy, Jude…
Far from the Madding Crowd – role of fate? Review
There are worlds beyond this world we live. The worlds outside this world are made of characters, stories and plots that bewilder us with their qualities, interesting twists and outcomes.…
Subject and Structure, an anthology for writers – review
Many of us must have heard about anthologies for the readers. There are many. There will be many to come. There have been many. However, most of us often discount…
The Perennial Philosophy – Huxley – Review
Book – The Perennial Philosophy Author – Aldous Huxley First Published – 1945 Pages – 319 One line review – “You won’t be thinking anything after reading Huxley’s opinion on…
Meditations by J. Krishnamurti – review
Indian authors, the spiritual league, have been so impressive with their writing that the body of spiritual work does never get any old. Recently, I had my hands on this…
Human Destiny by Le Comte Du Noüy – Review
A very famous and bestselling book of the previous generation or a generation before that (maybe), Human Destiny was authored by a very famous French philosopher and author, Pierre Lecomte…
Hard Times by Dickens
Charles Dickens, even after his death and so many years gone, still continues to be one of the best-selling novelists partly because of the inclusion of his books in the…
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, published in 1925 and authored by one of the most appreciated novelists of the twentieth century – F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel which recounts a love…
Vanity Fair (Novel) by W M Thackeray – Book Review
Vanity Fair, when it came out in installments between January 1847 to July 1848, created a sensation among the readers and the only talk that went around was about Becky…