THE GENTLEMAN THIEF

Arsene Lupin! Such a wonderful creation by Maurice Leblanc! Arsene Lupin is a stylish and dashing French character with all daring, charm and panache. He is called literature’s greatest gentleman thief and detective. I was never aware of this gentleman thief, but after reading this first book, I became an immediate fan of his eleganceContinue reading “THE GENTLEMAN THIEF”

FATHERS AND SONS by Ivan Turgenev

Fathers feel that they now belong to bygone times and sons feel that they have learned enough to indoctrinate new scientific theories and philosophies to the fathers. This happens today and this happened in this realistic classical work, based on the Russian society of the mid 19th century. The story begins with two brothers. FirstContinue reading “FATHERS AND SONS by Ivan Turgenev”