This is Ted Chiangs second collection of short stories, and like the first, each story reflects deeply on the implications of a single idea on our journey through life. These are tightly written, simply stated, stories you can read in a...
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the...
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. Scientist Victor Frankenstein learns how to create life, but his discovery goes quickly awry when he creates a monster larger and...
One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life. As a boy, Pip crosses paths with a convict named Magwitch, a man who will heavily...
In his adventures in several fantastic lands, Gulliver meets little people less than six inches high, giants, men who live on an island floating in air, and other creatures.
Heart of Darkness is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see...
Isaiah is revered as one of the greatest prophets of ancient Israel. He is also its greatest poet. He is to Hebrew what Shakespeare is to English, but with a far more urgent and universal message than what Shakespeare had to convey.
In one of Shakespeare's most famous and popular tragedies, the three daughters of the king of Britain are put to the test of declaring their love for their father, King Lear. The test leads to the expulsion of the favorite daughter, Cordelia; the...
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape...
The greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The...