Iain M. Banks' Culture meets Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in this funny romp through the cosmos.An immovable object stands in the way of the Galactic Emperor Jarrl. He...
"What was it?" is a brief but intense horror story. We are in New York and the owner of a Boarding house decides to move from the 26th Street Bleeker street: does a...
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The novel's title refers to its...
Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871.Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English...
In this episode, Swann has problems with her husband because of his former lover ,while her daughter Gilberte gradually becomes an attractive object of love to the Narrator. Then,...
A classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre in 1864). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and...
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set...
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 fairytale masterpiece The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King, which served as the basis for the famous and beloved holiday-season ballet The Nutcracker,...
"The Betrothed" is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes.It has been called the most famous and widely read novel...
The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of...