I never used to read biographies or autobiographies earlier. I used to find them pretty uninspiring & most of the time unconvincing for some reason. It was only in college that I started to read famous biographies official & unofficial as well as autobiographies. The first autobiography I read was ‘Mein Kampf’ by Adolf Hitler which nauseated me beyond comprehension. … [Read more...] about #Biography & Autobiography
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Dracula : My First Book
Dracula: My First Book I have got a very close bonding with Bram Stoker's book Dracula because it was the first book that I ever read on my own. I was at that time in the third-grade. I was at school during the summer vacations because mama (who was a teacher in the same school) had got a lot of paper work to do with the other teachers and she could not leave me at home all … [Read more...] about Dracula : My First Book
Top 10 novels
The world famous writer Somerset Maugham selected the following as the ten best novels of the world: 1) War & Peace (Leo Tolstoy) 2) Pere Goriot (Honore de Balzac) 3) Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) 4) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) 5) The Red & the Black (Stendhal) 6) Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) 7) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) 8) David … [Read more...] about Top 10 novels