The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a classic. A story about a man, Edmond Dantes, who was falsely accused of treason by his “friends,” Danglars and Fernand Mondego.
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Often overshadowed by J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the equally provocative but more developed counterpart novel Franny and Zooey was published in 1961, about 10 years after Catcher.
Usually, I gravitate towards all different kinds of thrillers and mysteries. The first time I laid eyes on A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J.
Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, published in 2015, is a plotless, sporadic, existential narrative that manages to be both shocking and beautiful, but never at the same time.
Stephen King is a master of horror and thriller, so I never expected that he would turn to the genre of fantasy in his new book Fairy Tale.
The bright, entrancing cover of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho will never be enough to capture the beauty lying within its pages.
“Survival is insufficient.” Station Eleven, Emily St. Mandel’s 2014 dystopian novel, followed by the HBO series released in 2021, is a case study on how people change, perpetuate, and internalize the art they love.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, time and youth seem desirable yet prove to be destructive. The gothic novel begins by introducing Lord Henry Wotton and his friend Basil Hallward conversing while Basil paints one of his masterpieces.
Karl Marx and Irish novelist Sally Rooney walk into a bar and discuss the terms of love and labor, perhaps how they’re one and the same.
The world is like a great abyss, filled with endless opportunities and emotions; because we live in such a precarious, disquieted globe, the disquiet we are surrounded by fails to hush the tumult in our minds and hearts.