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A Little History of the World (originally in German, Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser) is a history book by …
The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by …
Leo Tolstoy: War and peace (2006, Penguin Books)
"War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in …
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great …
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with …
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence …
Was not expecting something this popular to be this good, because I’m an idiot.
The Aeneid ( ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenē̆is [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and …
The Metamorphoses is a narrative poem penned by the Roman poet Ovid. Widely considered to …
A remarkable compendium of Greek and Roman mythology, which - as a work of breathtaking erudition(compiled 2000 years ago!) - is an easy 5 stars. However, the one caveat I had is the sheer volume of rape scenes(and ensuant punishment of victims) in the book. I know, I know - “they were different times” etc etc(I’m never quite sure if I should make my ratings based on an objective appraisal of a work when it was published or my subjective experience of reading it in the present day), but if ever a work were to have a flaw, ‘too much rape’ is about as fatal as it gets.
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written …
Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds (1967, Penguin (Non-Classics))
Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates …
James Joyce, Colum Mccann, Terence Brown: Dubliners (2014, Penguin Books, Limited)
Dubliners is a collection of vignettes of Dublin life at the end of the 19th Century written, by Joyce’s own …
