by Aseem Gupta | Jul 31, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
First published in Paris in 1848—an original edition is preserved by the Morgan Library & Museum—Alexandre Dumas fils’s The Lady of the Camellias is one of the nineteenth century’s most enduring stories of doomed love. Many English-language readers know it as...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 25, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo is often remembered in drastically shortened form: a young sailor is falsely imprisoned, finds a fabulous treasure, escapes, becomes impossibly rich, and takes revenge on the men who ruined him. That is the skeleton of the...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 20, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers is so thoroughly embedded in popular culture that many readers know its imagery before they know its story. They know the plumed hats, crossed swords, reckless duels, and famous ideal of comradeship. They may know d’Artagnan as...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 15, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars is often described as a love story about two teenagers with cancer, but that description captures only its most visible layer. Beneath the romance is a novel about mortality, disability, grief, storytelling, and the human desire to...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 12, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few works have shaped the imaginative, religious, literary, and moral worlds of South and Southeast Asia as deeply as the Ramayana. Its central story is familiar even to many people who have never read it: Prince Rama loses his kingdom, goes into exile with his wife...
