Fiction & Literature

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill

Angels & Demons

Dan Brown

Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. This is the book that started it all: we meet Robert Langdon for the first time, caught up in a race against time to...

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

The international critics are calling North and South a true masterpiece of English literature and one of the finest works by Elizabeth Gaskell. It's worth mentioning that this novel was turned into a television show not once, but twice - in '75 and...

Venus in Furs

Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs is a story about a person who dreams of talking to Venus about passion and love - and she's wearing furs in his dreams. The main character, who has no name, tells Severin - his friend - all about these dreams. Severin teaches the man ho...

Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

Heinrich Hoffmann

Der Struwwelpeter is a super-popular book for the kids by a German author, Heinrich Hoffmann. The book consists of 10 rhymed stories with pictures, most of which are about little boys and girls. The critics call it a moral guidance for the little one...

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

The main work of Dante Alighieri is not just a fantastic invention, but an entire ode dedicated to the woman he loves. Dante first saw Beatrice in 9 years (she was 8), and fell in love with her immediately, with all his childish soul. The next meetin...

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent is a highly entertaining, gripping and exciting novel in the genre of spy fiction and is set in 19th century London. The main character is, presumably, a Russian spy who's collecting and sending info to his government while living in...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Uncle Tom's Cabin is a bestseller of the world literature written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is a historical novel against the slaveholders in the southern states of the New World, which are prospered in the mid-19th century. Harriet Beecher S...

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. His quest takes him from the extremes of...