The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
Satchmo Turner is a failed private detective from the rusting heart of the Black Country who is reeling from the loss of his sister and fiancee. He's going nowhere at work, and treading water in life, until he picks up a simple missing person case and stumbles into something much bigger. Satchmo soon finds himself in...
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is...
El último día de octubre un grupo de chicos recorren la parte abandonada del Pueblo en el que viven, del que se dice está encantado. La historia inicia con nuestro protagonista, un chico de 12 años quién ha escapado de casa, previendo que algo no está bien a medida que se aproximan al lugar. Mientras el lector se aden...
We all know Andrés de Fonollosa as Berlin in money heist to be cold, hypnotic, sophisticated and having a lack of emotions and feelings. But how was Andrés de Fonollosa when he was younger? What made him steal? And what made him the mean person he is today? In this story you will find out how he used to be and exactl...
My escape from Springfield, Massachusetts, came in the form of an exchange program to New Delhi, India, one plane ticket for 11:00 am on the thirteenth of July. I left, taking a big suitcase and my camera. I told myself I left for the experience I'd have there, but maybe I left because of the experience I'd had here...
David is ten and a half years old when he becomes the de facto family shepherd and he's twelve when a man called Agent Samuel declares David will be the next ruler of Israel. One of those things seems more likely to happen than the other, even with the strange man's reassurances, and David's not surprised when it turn...
"...Dying leaves you purposeful..." And it leaves you with plenty of time to achieve it. Mind, there's still a basic need the dead have in common with the the living: home. But what if that home is tearing apart. Dinah's and Damian's relationship is their home. Their second home is the graveyard. When mythical dea...
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a tim...