Unforgettable stories - especially, The Necklace.
The folly that is social convention and the tragedy of wasted human lives for keeping it up, often all for nothing.
These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
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- Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hyp...
- The Longest Day; by Cornelius Ryan.
- Where did you go? Out What did you do? Nothing; by...
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient...
- The Guide: A Novel; by R. K. Narayan.
- Devdas; By Saratchandra Chattopaadhyaay.
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer; by Mark Twain II.
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces; ...
- Golden Straw; by Catherine Cookson.
- The Outsider; by Albert Camus.
- Subliminal Seduction; by Wilson Bryan Dey.
- Endless Night; by Agatha Christie.
- Sons and Lovers; by DH Lawrence.
- My World-and Welcome to It; by James Thurber.
- The Black Candle; by Catherine Cookson.
- The Rag Nymph; by Catherine Cookson.
- The Third Eye; by Lobsang Rampa.
- The Tide of Life; by Catherine Cookson.
- The Bridges of Madison County; by Robert James Wal...
- A Streetcar Named Desire; by Tennessee Williams.
- Life with Father and Life with Mother; by Clarence...
- The Color Purple; by Alice Walker.
- The Age of Innocence; by Edith Wharton.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray; by Oscar Wilde.
- The President's Lady: A Novel about Rachel and And...
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; by Ro...
- Boston; by Upton Sinclair
- Manassas; by Upton Sinclair.
- War and peace; by Leo Tolstoy.
- Chokher Bali; by Rabindranath Tagore.
- Dracula; by Bram Stoker.
- Elizabeth I; by David Starkey.
- Heidi; by Johanna Spyri.
- The God of Small Things; by Arundhati Roy.
- The Class; by Erich Segal.
- Man, Woman, and Child; by Erich Segal.
- Oliver's Story; by Erich Segal.
- Love Story; by Erich Segal.
- Frankenstein; by Mary Shelley.
- Two Lives; A Memoir by Vikram Seth.
- A Suitable Boy; (Perennial Classics) by Vikram Seth.
- And Ladies of the Club; by Helen Hooven Santmyer.
- The Constant Wife; by W. Somerset Maugham.
- How He Lied To Her Husband; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Saint Joan; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Captain Brassbound's conversion; by George Bernard...
- The Philanderer; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Widowers' Houses; by George Bernard Shaw.
- The Doctor's Dilemma; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Back to Methuselah; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Major Barbara; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Man and Superman; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Caesar and Cleopatra; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Candida; by George Bernard Shaw.
- The Apple Cart; by George Bernard Shaw.
- The Complete Plays Of BERNARD SHAW. by George Bern...
- Mrs. Warren's Profession; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Arms And The Man; by George, George Bernard Shaw.
- Pygmalion; by George Bernard Shaw.
- Algebra of Infinite Justice; by Arundhati Roy.
- Wide Sargasso Sea; by Jean Rhys.
- Scarlett; by Alexandria Ripley.
- Doctors; by Erich Segal.
- Citadel; by A. J. Cronin.
- First Promise; by Ashapurna Debi.
- Beyond This Place; by A. J. Cronin,
- The Judas Tree; by A. J. Cronin.
- Midnight's Children; A Novel by Salman Rushdie.
- Death on the Nile; by Agatha Christie.
- Wife; by Bharati Mukherjee.
- 'Tis: A Memoir; by Frank McCourt.
- Crucible; by Arthur Miller.
- Switzerland for Beginners; by Mikes.
- Angela's Ashes; by Frank McCourt.
- Northanger Abbey; by Jane Austen.
- Jamaica Inn; by Daphne Du Maurier.
- The Birds and Other Stories; by Daphne Du Maurier.
- Three Men On the Bummel; by Jerome H. Jerome.
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull; by Richard Bach.
- The Glass-Blowers; by Daphne Du Maurier.
- The Bridge Across Forever; by Richard Bach.
- Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit; b...
- Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah; ...
- One Hundred Years of Solitude; by Gabriel García M...
- The Moon and Sixpence; by W. Somerset Maugham.
- The Razor's Edge; by W. Somerset Maugham.
- Cakes and Ale; by W. Somerset Maugham.
- The Necklace and Other Short Stories; by Guy de Ma...
- How Green Was My Valley; by Richard Llewellyn.
- The Parasites; by Daphne Du Maurier.
- The Namesake; by Jhumpa Lahiri.
- Flowers for Algernon; by Daniel Keyes.
- The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel; by Lauren Weisberger.
- Random Harvest; by James Hilton.
- The Innocent Man; by John Grisham.
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles; by Thomas Hardy.
- The Mayor of Casterbridge; by Thomas Hardy.
- The Appeal; by John Grisham.
- A Painted House; by John Grisham.
- Bleachers; by John Grisham.
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