Fantasy

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Tom Canty, youngest son of a very poor family living in Offal Court located in London, has always had a better life, encouraged by the local priest, who has taught him to read and write. Loitering around the palace gates one day, he meets Edward Tudo...

The Jacket (The Star Rover)

Jack London

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a can...

The Time Machine

Herbert George Wells

The book's protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with but one exception (a man named Filby) none of the dinner guests present...

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the...

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. 

The King in Yellow

Robert William Chambers

Published in 1895, The Kind in Yellow is a short story book. Written by Robert W. Chambers, this book contains extremely interesting and bizarre stories. The book has been called "a supernatural classic" by critics and received full marks. There are...

The Wonderful Wizard

L. Frank Baum

When Dorothy and her small dog Toto are caught in a tornado, they and their Kansas farmhouse are all of a sudden transported to Oz, where Munchkins live, monkeys fly and Wicked Witches run the show. Frantic to return domestic, and with the Wicked Wit...

THE CHOSEN: A NOVEL OF THE BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD

If you're a big fan of paranormal romance, then you most certainly know who J.R. Ward is. She single-handedly created the best-selling Black Dagger saga that's constantly topping all kinds of international sales charts. The Chosen is the latest addit...

THE BURIED GIANT

The soldiers of Rome departed long ago. Britain is in ruin. And it is not so bad. The wars are no more and the country is in peace now . Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, thinking about a journey across this devastated land to find thei...

MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (MISS PEREGRINE'S PECULIAR CHILDREN)

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a...