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  A story of ordeals at the sea of a feisty and valiant character, Robinson Crusoe , the 18-year from England! I proclaim him to be a “ Man of Providence ”, emerging victorious from all the mayhem, every time!! Marooned multiple times at various instances, he is saved every time by sheer Providence. Maybe it is rightly said, fortune favors the brave! The felicitousness experienced during this adventurous seafaring read embarked my sullen spirit onto a renewed journey of life. Thanks to Daniel Defoe!   Crusoe is persuaded by his father to opt for  law as a career , instead to pursue frenetically his passion of being a seafarer. Crusoe’s father like a regular loving father , wants him to seek a modest, secure life for himself. Committed to staying obsequious to his father, he finally succumbs to his temptations and embarks on a ship bound for London along with a friend. The tempestuous storm sets their lives in danger , dissuading the friend from any more sea travel. Cruso...

A novelist generally reproduces a slice of life , where he is judged by his realism, or else he expresses criticism of life , in which case he is judged by his philosophy. In this novel, Longus does neither, he just tries to translate a beautiful picture into words , replacing the brazen world of actuality ! Giving readers a bountiful nature-laden blissful experience. “ Daphnis and Chloe ”, is a story of love, nature, adventure, and wedding bells ! Instead of dragging the reader through uninterrupted series of breathless adventures, Longus has alternated the passages of exciting action and passages of idyllic description ! It is a pristine pastoral romance fun-filled romantic tale of the 2nd century based on the Greek Isle of Lesbos , and has a tint of magical timelessness to it. It is a fun tale demonstrating the ancient art of falling in love . This appealing tale of two charming youths, of undisclosed identities, raised by simple farmers in the countryside, was written in...

        Whoopee , finally first review on a science fiction story! 😊 This story for me was like confronting yet consorting with the EVILS of technology! Being an electronics & telecommunication engineer myself (though I no longer associate being one and consider myself totally a literature girlfriend/lover  😊 ), I adored this story based on  magic, technology, and the future  to bits!!   During my teens, I would ponder if technology is a boon or a bane?  Then I stopped ruminating any longer on the ills of technology, because of the prolific inventions profusely being lauded and inundating human lives in entirety, moreover everyone partaking in its bounteous growth! What is the use to mull over the vile of technology when you see the  costliest of iPhones being established as a status symbol in society ! Isn’t so?   Reading this story was like an epiphany for me! It was like  confronting  all the  violent and ...

To help recuperate the sick child (Author William Goldman ), the old father reads out the story of “ The Princess Bride ” by S. Morgenstern to him. Years later, obsessed with the book, determined to procure a copy of it, extensively rummaging through bookshops, William Goldman finally ends up finding an ancient copy of it. He eventually realizes that his father read out only the “ good parts of the story ”, and resorts to opting for the fictional route of writing the abridged story of “The Princess Bride”.   Well going through the extended introduction was wee tedious and boring for me, so I skimmed through it . I was assiduously seeking to whet my appetite for fantasy by seizing the main adventure story of Buttercup and not the story of the rhyme and reason for abridgment by the author.   Additionally, the author kept barging with his POV throughout the story, giving a feel of a book within a book, which kept distracting me from my dreamland sporadically, which I ...

This play belonging to the 1890s, depicts the hypocrite aristocratic group of people from London. It in all perceptibility and plausibility, delineates that the concept of “ an ideal husband ” is just a misnomer 😊 It is just titular! Women end up idolising their husbands, silhouetting them in an image which they never adhere to, turning out to be mere impostors ! :P   The play divulges themes of public and private honor, social status, while using mediums of blackmailing and political -social corruption ! The other two most important themes are marriage as an institution and the power of forgiveness in it . Why and who forgives is the question?   Robert Chiltern (the ideal husband), working as Under-Secretary of the Foreign Affairs office is enjoying a perfect marriage and social image. Is he or is he not? That’s the question 😊 ########################################### Spread across 4 acts, following is a spoiler-free abridged synopsis- Th play opens w...

Are you willing to dwindle away your invaluable life for coveting expensive, precious, materialistic possessions? Yes, or no?   Whatever may be your answer, do read this short story baring the avaricious and mercenary female, Mathilde , and bringing her face-to-face with her own shallowness, but alas, she fails to learn, becoming more penurious than what she was, both materialistically and morally!   “ The Necklace ” is a remarkably compelling story teaching the readers lessons on appearance vs reality, avarice and it’s evil-outcome, beauty and the mirage, covetousness for material possessions, and the ephemeral superficial delight that comes along! It is a hands-down blockbuster 5-star read for me! 😊   Mathilde , born to a low-class, with no money for dowry, is married to Monsieur Loisel , a clerk! “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries.” She thought herself entitled to all the luxuries, and indef...