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I remember…. When I was a child, our family lived in a rented house, and our television was still monochrome. Every Sunday afternoon we (...

After Wuthering Heights about three years ago, this year I finally got a chance to read another Brontë’s. Charlotte’s Jane Eyre was defi...

Reading the synopsis and looking at this book’s cover (and later on browsing the true story on the internet) are enough to assume that Gr...

Approaching the end of year 2014, I think I have found a new masterpiece: Maugham’s Of Human Bondage ! It was based on Maugham’s real lif...

Once or twice a year you would have stumbled upon a book that leaves your soul troubled. This year Tender is the Night was it for me. Th...

I think I have just found a favorite female author, who can be juxtaposed with Zola’s genius, intense, and beautiful naturalist style: Ed...

Confession: I have been dreading reading Jane Austen since I took The Classics Club project . Why? Because I regarded her books as chickl...

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...

As I have always been fascinated by the Ancient Rome, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire seems to be a required rea...

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...

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...

I didn't read the whole book, only The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hound of the Baskervilles might be the last Holmes novella I’...

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...