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In Custody by Anita Desai

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ShareAfter quite a long time, I have read another novel by Anita Desai. Of late, I felt that her novels tend to depress me and affect my mood for days, by focusing on the tragic side of humanity. To retain my sanity and joy, I steered away...
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Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

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ShareHas it ever happened to you that someone says aloud your thoughts, while you were trying to formulate them, attempting to find out exact words, and all of a sudden, someone else communicates the same, and you are left amazed at the...
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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen...

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ShareFor last few weeks, I am oscillating between the literature of two great nations – Russia and America, amazed by sheer brilliance of narration, abundance of techniques and diversity of plots produced by the time tested stalwarts of...
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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

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...

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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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