Fanda Classiclit

After East of Eden last year, I didn't think I'd get to another masterpiece from Steinbeck so soon. Yet Cannery Row has got me...

Finally, I came to read this book which is considered one of the highest achievements in Indonesian literature. Set in the end of 19th...

A friend once told me a story (a true story, said he, though I never verified it myself) about an experiment held in prison, which wou...

All these times I have been thinking that Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities would be my most favorite historical-war-novel ever. It’s just s...

In honor of the late Maya Angelou—the honorable author, poet, and activist—who died on May 28, 2014, I decided to read her beautiful auto...

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...

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...

“Call me Ishmael” might be one of the most famous book openings in literary world, yet Ishmael himself turns out NOT to be the leading ch...

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...

I don’t know why it takes me so long to read one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces: The Old Man and The Sea. Maybe it’s because of my f...

This post acts also as my final review, while you can find the first level inquiry I had done for my WEM self-project here . All in all ...