The story of The Anarchist Banker takes place in a Lisbon café where the narrator meets an old friend, now a wealthy banker. He questions his friend about his anarchist origins and discovers to his amazement that the banker still...
Classic fiction
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Author:Pessoa, Fernando, Schain, RichardSummary: - Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie! More than 100 million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie. Ten people, each with something to hide and...
- Author:Andersen, Hans ChristianSummary:
Beloved children's classics such as “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” "The Little Match Girl," and “The Princess and the Pea.” By turns heartbreaking and joyous, these are the stories that first taught many of us the glories of...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
In this political fable, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers to establish the democratic Animal Farm. But as the society evolves, leaders become rulers and totalitarianism is re-established.
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
A communist revolution followed by a dictatorship is enacted when the animals of an English farm drive out the human owner and take over. Amply broad, cleverly conceived and delightfully written.
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
Anna Karenina is the wife of a prominant Russian government official. She leads a correct but confining upper-middle-class existence. She seems content with her life as a proper companion to her dignified, unaffectionate husband and an...
- Author:Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud)Summary:
Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...
- Author:Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud)Summary:
Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her original dream (which she gave up in Anne of Green Gables) of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane...
- Author:Nowlan, Philip FrancisSummary:
The groundbreaking novella that gave rise to science fiction's original space hero, Buck Rogers. In 1927, World War I veteran Anthony Rogers is working for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation investigating strange phenomena in...
- Author:Verne, JulesSummary:
The adventure begins in London on Tuesday, October 1st, 1872, when rich British gentleman Phileas Fogg gets in an argument with a group of friends. He enters a wager that sets him on a race to make it around the world in eighty days....
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
This classic mind-shattering tale, which "ranks high among the horror stories of the English language," plunges into the darkness of the Cthulhu mythos (Time). In the uncharted wastes of Antarctica, an exploration party from Miskatonic...
- Author:Rand, AynSummary:
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Is he a destroyer, or a liberator? Why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies but against the woman he loves?
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
These three connected early novels from the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina form an intimate portrait of Russian youth. Begun when Leo Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the...
- Author:Barklem, JillSummary:
Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book. Bad weather is on the way and the autumn stores are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly...
- Author:Mulford, Clarence E.Summary:
Clarence Mulford's classic Western introduces the legendary Hopalong Cassidy and other colorful cohorts from the Bar-20 ranch. While the Hopalong Cassidy of film and TV (portrayed by the silver-haired, avuncular William Boyd) was clean-...
- Author:Csajagi, LauraSummary:
Il n’est pas possible pour l’histoire qui va être contée d’en préciser l’époque; elle se perd dans la profondeur des siècles, et la terreur qu’elle a inspirée autrefois a rendu les témoins peu bavards… En ces temps, seuls quelques...
- Author:Lockwood, IngersollSummary:
Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged boy who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series-a mix of fantasy and...
- Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener. However, the lawyer quickly discovers that...
- Author:Saunders, MarshallSummary:
Marshall Saunders "Beautiful Joe" (1893) is a remarkable classic exploring issues of animal cruelty told from the point of view of one dog, Joe. This work was an instant success upon its release in Canada, becoming the first book to...
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