This book includes 9th stories wrote by very famous writers. Some of the most famous British writers of the early 20th century. Those are G.K.Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Cyril Hare, Elliot O'Donn…
This book includes 9th stories wrote by very famous writers. Some of the most famous British writers of the early 20th century. Those are G.K.Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Cyril Hare, Elliot O'Donn…
The Beach, published in 1996, was Alex Garland's first novel, and in 1997 won a prize for a first novel by an author under the age of thirty-five. It was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny…
The Beach, published in 1996, was Alex Garland's first novel, and in 1997 won a prize for a first novel by an author under the age of thirty-five. It was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny…
John Steinbeck explores these ideas in East of Eden (1952), which is part fiction and part personal history. It tells the story of two American families living in California between 1862 and 1918.…
The Citadel is greatly informed by Cronin's time as a doctor, and a number of situations in the book are taken directly from his own experiences. The main reason for the book's success was its shar…
In the second half of the nineteenth century, adventure stories set in strange countries were very popular with British readers. Anthony Hope was one of a group of writers who became well known for…
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for l…
This book brings together some of the best examples of the nineteenth, and early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are ab…
Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of a lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely. He develops a plan to murder a greedy ol…