Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its residents for over two centuries. Now Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, an iron-hearted hypocrite and intellectual heir to the mansion's...
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.... In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is...
Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin— known as the “idiot”—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life...
Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon...
On a day like any other, Kino, a subsistence pearl diver, emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, and as "perfect as the moon.” Such a pearl could change his families life, and it does.
When "Doodle" is born weak and sickly, his brother is disapointed. When with his brother's help he starts to walk at the age of five, they make plans for him to learn to run, climb vines, swim, and even fight, but things...
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the...
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father...
A London lawyer investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil...
The Valley of the Moon is a novel by American writer Jack London. The valley where it is set is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California where Jack London was a resident; he built his ranch in Glen Ellen. The story...