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Oh my gosh, Pride and Prejudice—where do I even start? It’s like Jane Austen reached into my soul, handed me a cup of tea, and said, “Let’s gossip about 19th-century British society, but make it fabulous.”
First off, Elizabeth Bennet? Iconic. She’s witty, sharp-tongued, and unapologetically herself in a world that’s constantly telling women to sit down and look pretty. The way she claps back at Lady Catherine? Chef’s kiss. I love how she’s flawed, too—her pride in her own judgment and her snap prejudices make her so human. Like, we’ve all been Lizzy, thinking we’ve got someone all figured out, only to realize… oops, maybe I was wrong.
And Darcy. Darcy. That man is a walking red flag that turns into a green one by the end. The first proposal scene? Disaster. The letter? Heart-wrenching. The second proposal in the misty dawn? SWOON. Austen invented the enemies-to-lovers trope, and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. But what gets me is his growth. He starts off all, “She’s tolerable, I suppose,” and ends up literally saving her family’s reputation. Character development, people!
But let’s be real—this book isn’t just a romance. Austen totally drags the whole marriage-as-a-business-transaction thing. Mrs. Bennet’s obsession with marrying off her daughters? The cringe of Mr. Collins proposing to Lizzy like he’s reading a spreadsheet? It’s hilarious and horrifying. Austen’s satire is so sly. She’s like, “Look at these ridiculous societal rules,” while also making you root for Charlotte Lucas to marry a guy who talks about cabbage for fun. Survival mode, baby.
Also, can we talk about the dialogue? The banter between Lizzy and Darcy is top-tier. Every time they’re in a room together, the tension could power a steam engine. And Mr. Bennet’s dry humor? “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” Mood, sir. Absolute mood.
But here’s the thing—it’s not just a period drama. It’s about seeing people clearly. Lizzy and Darcy both have to humble themselves, shed their biases, and admit they messed up. It’s a reminder that first impressions are often garbage (looking at you, Wickham), and real love—and respect—takes work.
Plus, the vibes. The balls, the countryside walks, the chaotic Bennet family dinners… It’s cozy and dramatic and timeless. Every time I read it, I find something new—like how Austen low-key critiques class snobbery or how Lizzy’s friendship with Charlotte is quietly tragic.
In the end, Pride and Prejudice feels like a warm hug and a sharp reality check all at once. It’s about finding your person, yes, but also about growing up, learning to laugh at yourself, and refusing to settle—for less than you deserve or for shallow judgments.
10/10, no notes. Jane Austen, you chaotic genius. 👑✨
(Now, who’s up for a Colin Firth-as-Darcy meme marathon?) 🏊📚
Prince Caspian
The Return to Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
The Pevensie siblings travel back to Narnia to help a prince denied his rightful throne as he gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire world. Prince Caspian is the fourth book in C. S. Lewis’s classic fantasy series, which has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land where animals talk and trees walk for over sixty years. This is a stand-alone novel, but if you would like to read more of Lucy and Edmund’s adventures, pick up The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the fifth book in The Chronicles of Narnia.
The River War
An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
By
Winston Churchill
The reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan was a military achievement remarkable first of all for the fact that unvarying and complete success attended every movement form the advance from Wady Halfa to the defeat and death of the Khalifa. This success was mainly due to one man endowed with extraordinary organizing genius, seconded by able and zealous subordinates.
White Nights
And Other Stories
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer’s romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from ‘living life’. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the ‘underground’ of many of Dostoevsky’s later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky’s view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
The story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood and trying to be a gentleman along the way. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.
White Fang
by Jack London
A wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized during the 19th Century Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is a companion novel to The Call of the Wild.
"White Fang" is part dog, part wolf and all brute, living in the frozennorth; he gradually comes under the spell of man's companionship, andsurrenders all at the last in a fight with a bull dog. Thereafter he isman's loving slave.
The White Monkey
A Modern Comedy: Volume 1
by John Galsworthy
Following her marriage to Michael Mont, Fleur Forsyte throws herself into the Roaring 20s with the rest of London and takes life as it comes. But her marriage is haunted by the ghost of a past love affair, and however vibrant Fleur appears, those closest to her sense her unhappiness. Michael, devoted to Fleur but not blind to her faults, is determined to stand by her through anything. Will their marriage last, and just how much can Michael forgive?
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Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
An account of a regicide and its aftermath.
The Castaways of the Flag
by Jules Verne
With the restoration of Fritz Zermatt and his wife Jenny, his brother Frank and the other Castaways of the Flag to their anxious and sorely tried relatives in New Switzerland, the story of The Swiss Family Robinson is brought to its proper end. Thereafter, the interest of their domestic life is merged in that of the growth of a young colony. Romance is merged in history and the romancer’s work is finished. Jules Verne has here set the coping stone on the structure begun by Rudolph Wyss, and in The Swiss Family Robinson, Their Island Home and The Castaways of the Flag we have, not a story and two sequels, but a complete trilogy.
Emma
Jane Austen
The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as ''handsome, clever, and rich'' but is also rather spoiled. As a result of the recent marriage of her former governess, Emma prides herself on her ability to matchmake, and proceeds to take under her wing an illegitimate orphan, Harriet Smith, whom she hopes to marry off to the vicar, Mr Elton. So confident is she that she persuades Harriet to reject a proposal from a young farmer who is a much more suitable partner for the girl.
Post Haste
by R. M. Ballantyne
This tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the Postmaster-General’s Annual Reports, and gathered, during personal intercourse and investigation, at the General Post-Office of London and its Branches. It is intended to illustrate–not by any means to exhaust–the subject of postal work, communication, and incident throughout the Kingdom.
Ralestone Luck
by Andre Norton
Rupurt Raleston and his siblings, Richanda and Valerius, return to their ancestral home, Pirate’s Haven. It is the only thing they have left and they believe that there are hidden treasures that will save them from destitution. Amongst these treasures is rumoured to include an ancestral sword, The Luck, which will return them to their previous glory. But as they get closer to finding this hidden treasure, another man has come to claim the ancestral home. A man who says that he is the rightful heir from another branch of the family. Rupurt, Richanda and Valerius must now find proof of their ownership or lose everything – Pirate’s Haven…and any chance they may have for the future.
Martin Rattler
A Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil
Martin Rattler was a very bad boy. At least his aunt, Mrs. Dorothy Grumbit, said so; and certainly she ought to have known, if anybody should, for Martin lived with her, and was, as she herself expressed it, “the bane of her existence; the very torment of her life.” No doubt of it whatever, according to Aunt Dorothy Grumbit’s showing, Martin Rattler was “a remarkably bad boy…”
The Man Who Knew Too Much
by G. K. Chesterton
Horne Fisher is the man who ‘knows too much…and all the wrong things’. He and his trusty companion Harold March take on the world of crime among societies most eminent members in eight classic mysteries. Fisher has a brilliant mind and powers of deduction - but he always faces a moral dilemma.
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General’s cruel yet seductive niece, Polina. In The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.
Shibusawa
or, The passing of old Japan
By
I. William Adams
Shibusawa: Or The Passing Of Old Japan is a historical book written by I. William Adams and published in 1906. The book is a biography of Eiichi Shibusawa, a prominent Japanese businessman and statesman who played a significant role in the modernization of Japan during the Meiji era. The book covers Shibusawa's life from his childhood to his rise to power as a successful businessman and influential figure in Japanese politics. It provides a detailed account of his business ventures, including his involvement in the establishment of the first modern bank in Japan, the First National Bank of Japan. The book also explores Shibusawa's role in shaping Japan's economic and political landscape during a period of rapid change and modernization. It highlights his efforts to promote industrialization, modernize Japan's legal and financial systems, and establish trade relations with foreign countries.
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
by Plutarch
Written at the beginning of the second century A.D., Plutarch’s Lives is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Kim, aka Kimball O'Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, Kim becomes the Lama's disciple, but is also used by the British to carry messages to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama along the Grand Trunk Road is only the first great adventure in the novel..
2 B R 0 2 B
by Kurt Vonnegut
2BR02B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the pulp digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962. The title is pronounced “2 B R naught 2 B” and refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide - in short, in order for someone to be born, someone must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident.
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"Rhetoric and Prosody" by Kalyannath Dutta.
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Siddhartha
An Indian Tale
by Hermann Hesse
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life – the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.
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📚 Discover the Hidden Gem: The Library of Strahov Monastery 📚
Did you know that nestled in the heart of Prague lies a treasure trove of knowledge and beauty? Let's explore the Library of Strahov Monastery, a hidden gem that's a feast for the eyes and the mind!
🏛️ A Brief History: The Strahov Monastery, founded in 1143, is not just a spiritual center but also a haven for bibliophiles. Its library, developed over centuries, has become one of the most stunning and significant libraries in the world.
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own—a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like “the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men,“begin to go awry. Of Mice and Men also represents an experiment in form, as Steinbeck described his work, “a kind of playable novel, written in novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands.” A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films. Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and beloved novels.
The Art of War
by Sun Zi
Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical Notes by Lionel Giles, M.A.
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The Castaways of the Flag
The Final Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson
by Jules Verne
With the restoration of Fritz Zermatt and his wife Jenny, his brother Frank and the other Castaways of the Flag to their anxious and sorely tried relatives in New Switzerland, the story of The Swiss Family Robinson is brought to its proper end. Thereafter, the interest of their domestic life is merged in that of the growth of a young colony. Romance is merged in history and the romancer’s work is finished. Jules Verne has here set the coping stone on the structure begun by Rudolph Wyss, and in The Swiss Family Robinson, Their Island Home and The Castaways of the Flag we have, not a story and two sequels, but a complete trilogy.