Fiction & Literature

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

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. It was first published in 1886. I...

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century

Pygmalion

Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.

Socrates

Voltaire

Socrates is a 1759 French play in three acts written by Voltaire. It is set in Ancient Greece during the events just before the trial and death of Greek philosopher Socrates. It is heavy with satire specifically at government authority and organized...

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Famous legendary author Kahlil Gibran's unforgettable masterpiece The Prophet has been printed millions of copies worldwide. Prophet was published in 1923 and has been translated into many languages. This flawless work consists of essays written with...

True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life

Sarah E. Farro

  True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life by Sarah E. Farro is a much loved piece. The book was first published by Donohue & Henneberry in 1891 and was one of the 58 works exhibited at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893. Author Fa...

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The author has more than 200 stories and 7 of them are published in this book. The collection is about a woman's journey towards madness. These tales are often about the degraded status seen by society as appropriate for the woman. In the work, we se...

Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground is one of the world's most renowned novels. This book explores visions of the self between the 19th and 20th centuries. The anonymous narrator in this book makes one of the most influential expressions in the liter...

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

    A teenager named David Balfour is defrauded by his uncle and his legacy stolen. Not only that. David is kidnapped and taken to America, according to plan. But things don't go well. David is saved by Breck Stewart. Breck is a good figh...

Pensées

Blaise Pascal

  Blaise Pascal is an extremely talented and brilliant physicist. Pascal is also known as an early contemporary of Descartes. The work named Pensees describes the contradictions of human nature. This work is a work of social, theological and me...