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The Royal Game

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Imagine being confined to a single room for years, devoid of human interaction, with nothing but your thoughts to keep you company. How would you cope? Would you find an escape within your mind, or would the isolation consume you? Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game explores this very dilemma through the gripping tale of two contrasting chess players—one, a world champion with mechanical precision, and the other, a man who mastered chess as a means of survival. The story unfolds aboard a ship, where the author crosses paths with the world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic. An enigmatic and aloof figure, Czentovic is a man of few words, indifferent to the world beyond the 64 squares of a chessboard. Despite his unparalleled mastery of the game, he lacks academic intelligence and social grace. His reputation precedes him, and our author becomes increasingly curious to understand the mind of this prodigy. To initiate contact, the author and his companions engage in casual chess matches in C...
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Animal Farm

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Mr. Jones was the owner of the manor farm . His farm animals were not happy under him. One day, an old pig called Willingdon Beauty (who was addressed as an old major ) gathered all the animals on the farm for a discussion. He was respected a lot on the farm. So, all the animals obeyed him. The dogs, pigs, hens, pigeons, the horses Boxer and Clover, the white goat, the donkey Benjamin, and a white mare, Mollie, were the participants of the meeting. The old major addressed his fellows by claiming that the life of an animal is misery and slavery. It is not because the land of them is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it. It is because nearly all the produce of their work is stolen from them by human beings. He mentioned that man is the only enemy for them. If they could remove man from the scene, then the root cause of hunger and overwork would be abolished forever. He also added that man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does ...
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The Little Prince

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Imagine being stranded in a desert by yourself with little food to last you a few days. A little prince arrives at this precise moment to brighten your life and give you hope. The author immerses his readers in this kind of circumstance. In the Sahara Desert, the author's plane had an accident. He had a broken engine. He was left alone. He had to repair himself. The next day, he was awakened by a little voice. He saw a most extraordinary small person, the little prince. The planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house. The exchange of ideas between the author and the young prince was really fascinating. The author slowly learnt about the little prince’s life and his planet. The little prince sets off to explore, visiting several planets along the way, including one with a single king, one with a single tippler, one owned by a businessman, one with barely enough space for a street lamp and a lamplighter, one with an elderly writer living there, and finally...
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The Old man and the Sea

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If you are beginner who is about to start your reading journey, then “The old man and the Sea” written by Ernest Hemingway is the best book to kick-start. It is a short novel about the old man named Santiago, a fisher man who hasn’t got any fish for the past 84 days. He was considered as unlucky by his villagers as he couldn’t catch a fish. His helper boy, who was very close to him and accompanied him in all his journey, left him because of his parents’ push. Now he was left all alone. Still his energy is not down. He decided to give an another try. This time, he decided not to return without catching a fish. Whether he succeeded in his journey is the rest of the story. When he started his journey to catch a fish in his skiff, he encountered a marlin , which was 18 feet long. Initially, he did not aim for it. But he saw the fish following him, and thought that this would be his prey. He made several attempts, where he got cramps, he lost his food, still he was pursuing his prey. Fin...
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