Fiction & Literature

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

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Returning from a sanitarium held in Switzerland, Prince Myshkin finds himself in an interesting love triangle. There are two women in the story, Nastasya and Aglaia. Nastasya is infamous, Aglaia is hungry for money. In this interesting spiral of love...

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

Fanny Price is accepted into her uncle's house and grows up with her cousins. There are many adventures in this unique adventure that takes place among Sir Thomas's business investments. Fanny Price, who comes into a big family, witnesses many innova...

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Anne Elliot has a happy relationship with sea captain Frederick Wentmorth and they get engaged. However, the woman's friend Lady Russell thinks the relationship is extremely inappropriate and spoils it. This separation creates a deep loneliness and r...

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

       This gripping story by the unforgettable writer Edgar Allan Poe tells of Prince Prospero escaping death in the monastery and hiding inside. The reason for hiding is a deadly plague known as the Red Death. He is hiding in...

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and publi...

Anthem

Ayn Rand

Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic books, and a clear forerunner to her afterward magnum opuses, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand analyzes a startling future in which people have no title, no freedom, and no...

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

"For sheer narrating delight and unadulterated experience, Treasure Island has never been outperformed. From the second youthful Jim Hawkins first experiences the vile Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic fight for treasure on a tr...

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The story of Oliver Twist - stranded, and set upon by fiendish and difficulty from his to begin with breath - stunned perusers when it was distributed. After running absent from the workhouse and self important beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself...

The Time Machine

Herbert George Wells

So starts the Time Traveller’s surprising firsthand account of his adventure 800,000 years past his very own era—and the tale that released H.G. Wells’s a success profession and earned him his recognition as the daddy of technology...

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

The story, published in 1854, concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "demonstrable truth fanatic," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a grim and arid atmosphere of practicality. Without a moral compass to direct them, children plunge into life of...