Fanda Classiclit

If God does not exist, then everything is permitted —this seemed to be the central point of argument Fyodor Dostoyevsky brought up in The...

As usual when the last three months in the year is coming, hectic is all around me. I still can catch up with my reading pace, but not wi...

It’s official! Willa Cather will join the short list of Fanda’s favorite female writers. Other than Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, and Ed...

This is the first time I read detective novel with Victorian background. Here I can hear you yelling: ‘What about Holmes?’ Well, Holmes i...

Thanks to Robert Fagles, I could at last really enjoy Homer’s The Iliad ! (this is a very-very late post—I finished the book on May, but ...

First of all, Penguin Classics should put a subtitle “and other writings” after Metamorphosis for this edition. I have a habit of igno...

After much (and rather long) consideration, I have decided to participate again in Karen’s Back to the Classics 2017 . I have failed my ...

Finally...another masterpiece from Zola! One of those that blow your minds. The Conquest of Plassans follows the faiths of Marthe Ro...