"Dubliners" is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for h...
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of...
Selfish and spoilt Mary was sent to Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden, a change comes over her life. *This story belongs to Frances Hodgson Burnett. I don't own anything.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volc...
"Black Beauty" is narrated as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and reco...
The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
"Bridget Jones with a lot more wine! This story is hilarious, feel-good and relatable in all the best ways!" - Grace K @ HQ. She's just quit her high-flying job and her marriage is coasting on fumes. Can Alice find a sense of purpose in all the madness? ...
Highest Rank #26 in quotes Status: Ongoing Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but not all of us would notice. Let me put thoughts onto tablets, words into emotions and emotions into truth. "Out Of The Bue' is my second poetry book, compromising original works and raw emotions.
Having drifted from a powerful childhood bond, Ash and Camille find their lives intertwining once more when the death of an old friend serves as a wake up call. Desperate for escape, and to relive the best days of her youth, Ash runs away for the road trip of her life, dragging Camille along with her. But nobody can...
colorful and bittersweet poetry {lowecase intended... sometimes} {found picture on the internet, on Tumblr, please don't sue} ©bookbabere, all rights reserved.
❝This is the love I fail to say. One that caused him to go away, for our love was never made to stay.❞ - all of the poems are mine :) #1 in Poetry 26/05/17 ! Thank you for reading♡ New book 'Everything You Never Knew' is out!
A compilation of short poems and quotes written by yours truly. Highest: #1 in poetry All Rights Reserved © John Schorwinson 2017 Marvellous cover made by @soundthealarm
poetry by a person that's afraid of people. 12/23/15- #1 in poetry
"Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself." WINNER OF CHICKLIT PROMPT 8! (CC) Attrib. NonComm. ShareAlike Highest Rank: #497 in Short Story!
Enduring the torments at school by her fellow high school peers, then at home by her mother, Kate Sterling decides to take her own life. Thinking that the world isn't worth living anymore, she goes to the Golden Gate Bridge, ready to take the plunge. Suddenly deciding that she does not want to die, she steps back, b...
{WARNING: MAY INCLUDE SWEARING} I love looking at quotes. Trying to figure out the meaning, seeing how creative people can be, etc. So I decided to put it into one WHOLE book. Just to note: There will be song lyrics There will be deep quotes There will be random quotes There will be CONFUSING quotes NO HATE ALLOWED Al...
