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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Share“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The particular emphasis on family and its happiness and unhappiness in the very opening line of Anna Karenina lays bare Leo...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

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ShareFor last few weeks, I had been engrossed in serious somber works of passionate Russian writers – Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy. Though, Crime and Punishment astonished me with Fyodor’s psychological insight into an...
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dost...

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ShareCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is the third classic I have read in last few weeks, closely following 1984 and The Great Gatsby. And, perhaps, classics are like old wines, they taste even better when aged. For now, I am...
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzge...

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ShareThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the few books that I decided to pick up just to get a taste of classic American Literature of a bygone era. My expectations were minimal and contrary to my usual careful dictum of...
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1984 by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

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ShareI often wished I could travel back in time and set my past right, avail a lost opportunity, amend a wrong decision or simply take back a venomous comment. I often thought If only my past could be altered, my present and future would...
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The Guide By R.K. Narayan

The Guide By R.K. Narayan

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ShareNo matter how many books I read, I keep coming back to R.K. Narayan for yet another dose of his humorous satire, laden with rare pearls of wisdom, steeped in the humblest of real life situations. Yes, recently, I finished yet another...
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Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Hele...

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ShareBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding is the first book that I adored and abhorred in almost equal measures. I finished the novel yesterday, but was in a fix as to how to review a novel, which has left me confused about my own...
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Retelling by Surendra Prakash

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Share‘A bird in cage sings no more, Hits hard against the door’ While writing this poem, I suddenly remembered a story, ‘Retelling’, written in Urdu by Surendra Prakash, that I read a few months back. The story,...
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