Sometimes back I got my hand on a book on Joseph Conrad in a library, it wrote somewhere in the beginning “both at sea and on land my point of view is English, from which the conclusion should not be drawn that I am an Englishman” Conrad was describing himself. It further said Conrad considered himself aContinue reading “How dark was this heart?”
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The East, The west and Mr. Gatsby!
I’d got a strong impression that I was picking my books with care. The practical thing was to find easily those which have been in vogue for many decades. This one was of the kind. There is no rule of east or west. Most books that are popular in the west are not known inContinue reading “The East, The west and Mr. Gatsby!”