April, 1984. Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwells fiction is often said to...
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens' novel relates the story of two Englishmen, lawyer Sydney Carton and aristocrat Charles Darnay, who fall in love with the same woman in the middle of the French Revolution.
George Orwell’s famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to...
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just...
In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste,...
Despite his guilt, or perhaps because of it, Raskolnikov is eventually able to find peace by owning responsibility for his greatest sin.
Don Quixote is a middle-aged man living in 16th century La Mancha in Spain who is obsessed with romance novels involving chivalry. He arms himself to defend the weak and vanquish the wicked. The two-part novel is the story of his many and often...
Isherwood Williams went on vacation to a cabin in the woods, a haven from the demands of society. Then he got sick. Sick for days, often delirious, he awoke to find a stranger peering at him from the cabin door. When Isherwood called to him for...
Emma is clever, rich, beautiful and sees no need for marriage. An irrepressible matchmaker, she loves interfering in the romantic lives of others, until her matchmaking plans unravel, with consequences that she never expected. Jane Austen's novel...