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This must have been the most deceitful book I have ever read in my life: If on a winter’s night a traveler . From the unique title I must...

Thanks to Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans , I learned for the first time in my life, the French-Indian war which took place in North Am...

Now 15 years old, Nana Coupeau, Gervaise and Coupeau’s daughter, first appeared in L’Assommoir as a child. Brought up on the street, Nan...

I have a mixed feeling about Don Quixote. On the one hand I quite enjoyed Cervantes’ wit and beautiful prose, but on the other I disliked...

Aesop is a slave and story-teller who was believed to live in ancient Greece around 620 to 560 BC. He collected many tales from diverse o...

Although it is a very short book, Notes From Underground is far from light reading. I have started it last year, but had to stop at firs...

Tony Morrison really likes to open a novel in an oddly way; as in Beloved, so is in Song of Solomon. It is opened with a suicide letter f...

As soon as I read the last line, and closed the book for good, I could only think…how emotional David Copperfield is; it’s much more inte...

During First World War Ernest Hemingway has served as ambulance driver for Italian Army. From this experience, Hemingway created a Freder...

  “ History is the life of nations and of humanity .” Leo Tolstoy dedicated War and Peace—a historical fiction which he insisted for n...

George Eliot is the third Victorian female author whose novel I’ve ever read. The first is Louisa May Alcott (which I have failed), t...

In all human beings there is always the beast within. That’s what Zola wanted to remind us in La Bête Humaine (= the human beast). There...