In the Sphere: Thomas Hardy's last completed novel, Jude the Obscure, was also perhaps his very first attempt at writing something beyond his usual periphery of pessimistic, silent and prolonged love-goals. Still, his attempt could not bring much of the…
In the Sphere: Lakshmi Raj Sharma’s The Tailor’s Needle takes us back to history when India was a slave to the British. The author has highlighted, in succinct detail, some of the evil practices like - intercaste-marriages, class discrimination and untouchability, practised…
Before I begin exploring the reasons we should read classic novels, let's try to reach a workable definition of a classic itself. What is a classic novel? Classical is near to the implication of something that is traditional, widely followed…
Talks about Thomas Hardy can lead readers to various novels by him. And, for me, discussions on Hardy often come to one of the best novels by him (for me, again) - Far from the Madding Crowd, an 1874 novel.…
