Category: classics

BOOK REVIEW: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

BOOK REVIEW: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Posted June 15, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 11 Comments

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is written in 1892 as journal of a woman who failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country and is forbidden by her doctor and her husband to write. The novella can be regarded as the an autobiographical work of the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She was a prominent figure during the first-wave feminist movement in the United States. Much of her life’s work was influenced by the experiences of her early life. Narrated by an unnamed protagonist, the journal records are basically a reality of the protagonist’s own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper, a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Gilman formulated her protagonist’s […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Bleak House by Charles Dickens

BOOK REVIEW: Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Posted June 11, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 12 Comments

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. The title, ‘Bleak House’ isn’t exactly an invitation for a reader to pick it up, and not a famous one either in terms of other Charles Dickens novels, especially A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. Even though it is not as famous as Dickens other novels yet it is one of the vast book and includes engaging variety of minor characters and sub-plots. The novel starts by a description of a murky November day in London. Thought out the novel Dickens’ descriptions of fog over the London in various words and styles is extraordinary. This novel share the brilliance of Dickens’ […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

BOOK REVIEW: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Posted June 3, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews, science fiction / 4 Comments

Herbert George Wells starts the book THE TIME MACHINE by arguing that the ‘Time’ is itself a separate dimension. Through the protagonist of the book, Wells present a theory that the first three dimensions are occupied by the space and the time is the fourth dimension. Just like the narrator of the book, as a reader of the text, I felt eccentric while coming across the aforementioned theory of Mr. Herbert G. Wells. In the book, an unnamed narrator tells the story of a time traveller whom he met and who then takes over the narration to describe about an event that happened to him. The Time Machine is all about imagination. Both of the person who wrote it, and the person […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

BOOK REVIEW: The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

Posted May 20, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Goth, Reviews / 15 Comments

THE MONK by Matthew Gregory Lewis was first published in 1796. It is an early gothic novel and despite being written over two hundred years ago, now considered under the classification of classic, it is a real page turner. Matthew Lewis has described the story in an effective manner, and this book is a good display of his story-telling. Previously read a few books related to the specific genre: Gothic, I am very much fascinated by the writings, the display of the words, and different type of plots. And by other books I mean Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I don’t know if Dracula by Bram Stoker is a true horror or can also be considered as a part-gothic but […]

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Book Review: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Book Review: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Posted May 2, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 0 Comments

I remember clearly why I picked Carson McCullurs. I think I read about her in an article and there were some comparisons made of her writing with of D.H. Lawrence. That would raise anyone’s curiosity along with their eyebrows, I bet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was the first novel of Carson McCullers at the age of twenty-three. And the fact fascinates me, how can one with so steadiness and rich in words can write a novel like this? The novel focus on the theme of moral isolationism. I knew nothing about the book at all when I started reading it. The book starts with a deaf-mute character as its center, John Singer, set in a Georgia mill town in 1930s. […]

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Five Books To Read If You Are Waiting For TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2

Five Books To Read If You Are Waiting For TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2

Posted April 22, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books, classics / 0 Comments

True Detective is an American crime drama television series that astonished most of us with its ‘cult-y’ and not so pessimistic first season,  created and written by author Nic Pizzolatto. The cast for the season was good, the cast for the season two sounds good too. Well, the season two’s starting date is announced: 21st of June, this year.  Yet there’s a lot of time remaining, almost two months. 21 June is quite far. I am representing a book list that might interest you and to keep yourself utilise till then. Published in 1895, collection of short stories by Robert Chambers that became a bestseller on Amazon last year. Why? It is the only literary reference used in True Detective till date. I am waiting for […]

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Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Posted April 16, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 0 Comments

There are very rare books, that earn the title of masterpiece from its reader. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one. This book, as we know, is one of the most acclaimed and successful book written. It’s their in the top of all the top book-lists. Written quite frankly and engrossing narration in first person by a six-year old-girl. The book is set in a small town in Alabama, narrated by a small girl, Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, who has a very short temper for a little girl. She has a brother, Jem, and an honest, liberal— father, Atticus Finch. Atticus share strong relationship with his kids, a man of wisdom, and impartial to people of different opinions, […]

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Book Review: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Book Review: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Posted March 17, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 0 Comments

To truly enjoy reading literary classics you have to be transported back to a place and time that’s very different from our own. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte is a perfect platform. It’s a tale of the experiences of a governess. The story is a semi-autobiographical work of Anne Bronte who, before getting published was a governess herself. Published in 1847, is a novel about a young woman, in Victorian England, Agnes, is the younger daughter of an impoverished clergyman. Her parents had married against her mother’s family’s wishes and when their fortune was wrecked Agnes determines to help out by working as a governess. The first family she works for are the Bloomfields. Mrs Bloomfield tells Agnes her children […]

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Book Review: Middlemarch by George Eliot

Book Review: Middlemarch by George Eliot

Posted February 19, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 0 Comments

The magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people Virginia Woolf It took me almost 9 days to finish reading Middlemarch. It’s huge, but George Eliot certainly knows how to play with a reader’s imagination by practicing the art of puppetry through her characters. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, a novel of more than 750 pages (of course, depending on the edition) is a work of realism. This massive novel is composed out of eight books that reflect a form serialisation. Starting with a short prelude that introduces the character of Dorothea to the finale in which the post-novel providences of the main characters are examined. Middlemarch is an unfolding story of the lives and loves […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

BOOK REVIEW: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Posted December 24, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Non-Fiction, Reviews / 35 Comments

Inferno by Dante Alighieri My rating: 5 of 5 stars Imagine that feeling, when you are reading a book and by the end it makes you feel complete. We all have observed that by one or the other book(s). Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno is one of them. Written almost 700 years ago, it still has the mesmerizing capacity to capture a human’s attention. It’s iconic for a literary work to survive a 700 years and Dante’s work has reached that status: most people at least know of the Inferno, even if they haven’t read it. Dante’s Inferno, the first third of what has come to be known as the Divine Comedy. Dante himself only referred to it as a Comedy […]

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