Young upper class artist believes in not helping the poor while spending his days doing nothing of consequence, essentially living a futile existence. Lida is his polar opposite...

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...

Read more of the Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, a unique twist on the classic stories you grew up with. Sometimes dark and disturbing like the Grimm stories, other times new and relevant...

This book "Vanina Vanini" is a short story published in 1829 by Stendhal. It is set in 1830 during the Risorgimento, when Italy was under Austrian control. The plot of...

A classic romance novel by A.E.W. Mason about a man who glimpses a beautiful woman, then later helps her with the various troubles caused by her unscrupulous husband.

The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860. Maggie Tulliver is the central character of the book. The story begins...

The Fur Country (French: Le Pays des fourrures) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and...

Theresa works at a pizza shop that's not too popular. Her two big black coworkers, Maurice and Omar, provide a level of comfort in the rather empty restaurant. When her boyfriend,...

The play is set in Sicily, at a time when Paganism and Christianity meet, thus again outlining this theme. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller attempting to...

With his new job, Jerome could afford a nice apartment and hired a cleaning company. However, he was not lucky with girls. This changed when Sally came to clean his apartment....