The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it...

A series of unexplained events occur across the eastern United States, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator...

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold...

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922.The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist...

"Germinal" (1885) is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the...

Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment. He immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one...

While she was staying with her parents, Vivian found out that her stepfather was writing dirty stories. Reading these stories excited her and when she confronted Aaron, he tried...

An international auction is organized to define the sovereign rights to the part of the Arctic extending from the 84th parallel, the highest yet reached by man, to the North Pole....

Elena Franchi, a fifty-year-old art history teacher, quits her teaching job at a school in Bologna and moves to Nice where she opens a cleaning agency. Together with Karim, a...

Set in upstate New York, the story follows Samuel Prescott's eventful life. A robbery leaves Samuel penniless and forces him to encounter many bigger than life characters from...