
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays by Albert Camus
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus. Published in 1947, it tells the story from the …
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The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus. Published in 1947, it tells the story from the …

Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake: James and the Giant Peach (1988, Puffin / Scholastic)
Roald Dahl's first and most widely celebrated book for young people continues to thrill readers around the world.
When …

A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a …

Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to …

One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of …

Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after Catch-22). Its main character and narrator is …

A posthumously published novel in three parts. Set in the Caribbean, the stories follow the main character during different periods …

Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip …

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks …
When most people think of Washington Irving, they think "Oh yeah, isn't he that dude who wrote that movie with Johnny Depp?" Fortunately for us, most people are idiots. When he wasn't busy being ambassador to Spain or fighting ninjas, Irving spun some immensely entertaining yarns set in colonial America of the 17th Century. Collected here is some of his best work. I highly recommend it.
When most people think of Washington Irving, they think "Oh yeah, isn't he that dude who wrote that movie with Johnny Depp?" Fortunately for us, most people are idiots. When he wasn't busy being ambassador to Spain or fighting ninjas, Irving spun some immensely entertaining yarns set in colonial America of the 17th Century. Collected here is some of his best work. I highly recommend it.