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Books, Reading and Literary Reflections
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What are the most emotional novels that I can read?
Read more →: What are the most emotional novels that I can read?Emotively is what you could be passionate about; what lights up your sensual feelings or your imaginative vein. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is one novel I can think about very keenly. The power of emotion in this fascinating love story is dark and deep. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a classic emotion novel.…
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Impressions on Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Read more →: Impressions on Fyodor DostoyevskyMy thoughts about Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov resurface as I read Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. Human nature revels in his novels; revels in the candid display of monstrosity and hideousness, subterfuge and all embracing love. As a critic has remarked Dostoyevsky’s characters possess a dialogic imagination. They are very near to the…
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What literary genre is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? What are some similar books in that genre?
Read more →: What literary genre is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? What are some similar books in that genre?The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn according to Ernest Hemingway “All modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” The novel is a rich source to understand the American way of life in the early days of modernisation. For lovers of Nature and rivers especially, there is no better novel as…
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Orhan Pamuk’s My name is Red
Read more →: Orhan Pamuk’s My name is RedOne of the best books I have read in a long time is Orhan Pamuk’s My name is Red; a fantastic read. How do we describe a book where art and reality seem to seamlessly merge into one another? As I read the novel I was under a spell. I was carried away by the…
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What are the best Russian novels?
Read more →: What are the best Russian novels?Krishnamohan · Following MA in English (language), SV University (Graduated 1990) What are the best Russian novels? The Russians are the preeminent masters at writing fiction. The list is long and there are many contenders. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky will most certainly make it to the top. War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and…
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THE BLACK BOOK
Read more →: THE BLACK BOOKOrhan Pamuk’s The Black Book. Intertextuality of the novel made it difficult for me initially. It is also largely about an extraordinary range of reading, and in-depth intensive reading of a particular subject: in this case history, theology and philosophy. Pamuk’s way of looking at the situation is what the novel is about; what are…
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చివరకు మిగిలేది
Read more →: చివరకు మిగిలేదిబుచ్చిబాబు ‘చివరకు మిగిలేది’లో దయానిధి వ్యక్తిత్వం, ప్రేమ, అన్వేషణ, వైరుధ్యం, శూన్యం మరియు సత్యాన్వేషణ గురించి నా ఆత్మీయ సాహిత్య పరిశీలన.
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నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2
Read more →: నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2More books, more conversations, and the many ways they stay with us.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Read more →: The Count of Monte CristoAfter finally reading the unabridged novel, I reflect on Dumas’s immense canvas of adventure, suffering, revenge and the sheer exhilaration of storytelling.
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మనసు లోని మాట
Read more →: మనసు లోని మాటదూరం, ఊరు, బాల్యం, స్నేహం, ఇంటి జ్ఞాపకాలు — మనసులో మిగిలే తియ్యని బాధను పలికించే జ్ఞాపకాల కవిత.
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Revisiting
Read more →: RevisitingA look back, not to return, but to understand — and to move forward more gently.