"Macbeth" tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and parano...
Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a...
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, "Hamlet" dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. Cover by @vkbloodgood
Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four...
"There's not a whole lot of magic left anymore, is there? The witches are melted, Cinderella's dead, and the Wolves are endangered. The fey left." ★ "Not all of them," Tilly said with a smile. ★★★ "ABC's 'ONCE UPON A TIME' meets 'SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL'" Hard times have come to Grimland since Q...
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his lo...
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
At the age of eighteen, everyone's blood changes colour. Whether it becomes blue, green or otherwise, the colour is either hereditary or a random, biological selection. However, when Pearl Damocles discovers that her blood is colourless - in a society where people are segregated by blood colour -, she travels to an i...
It is 1984 and Jessica just lost her mother and is facing some hard battles. When something bad happens to her, she meets a boy named Richie. When more horrible things happen to her, their love and passion will take them further together and using his talents and her skills, they may just end all the harm that has bee...
Meet Isabelle Houston, she's shy, keeps to herself mostly, gets good grades. She doesn't like to bring attention to herself. Meet Liam Goodman, he's the quarterback of his high schools football team. He has tons of friends, goes to parties, typical jock. So what happens when Isabelle is reading against a tree and su...
The Wilders are missing the only place they called home. 'Walnut Grove' Now that Rose is fifteen she thinks it's time to go back. Even though she was only about two when she left, she knows that it is her home. More than Sleepy Eye!
Valerie Fry on 15-vuotias tyttö seiskavyöhykkeeltä, joka osallistuu historian ensimmäiseen Nälkäpeliin. Olen keksinyt itse tarinan henkilöt & juonen, ja toivoisin, ettet kopioisi niitä. Tämän tarinan henkilöt sekä juoni eivät esiinny Nälkäpeli -kirjasarjassa (tämä on fanifiktio!) Varoitus! Tarina sisältää väkivaltaa...
Aada on nuori tyttö, joka on elänyt koko elämänsä Arnolin synkässä ja sumuisessa valtakunnassa äitinsä Johanan kanssa. Heidän talonsa sijaitsee pienellä maa-alueella kylän ulkopuolella, jossa ainoa tapa saada ruokaa on kasvattaa sitä itse köyhästä maaperästä huolimatta. Aurinko on aina ollut pilvien takana ja eläimet...
Minä kerron teille tarinan. Se kertoo kukkasista, sateenkaarista, elämänilosta ja onnesta, joka kääntää kaiken hyväksi. Se kertoo auringonpaisteisista päivistä ja pyyteettömästä rakkaudesta, jotka tuntuvat olevan ainoita asioita maailmassa. Ei, oikeastaan se kertoo vain ihmeiksi luulemistamme asioista, jotka eivät...