Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

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 Hertfordshire, near London.

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

23-year-old Leon Kennedy, Umbrella's finest agent, is sent to Raccoon City in September 1998, during the night of the horrifying outbreak. He's told to secure a sample of the G-virus and to get rid of William Birkin, as well as to kill any of the remaining survivors he runs into. The first survivor he comes across? You. [ Leon Kennedy x Fem!Reader ] [ Alternative Universe, Umbrella!Leon ] - MATURE CONTENT, 16+ - COMPLETE, OCCASIONALLY UPLOADING BONUS CHAPTERS - NOTE: CURRENTLY ONLY HALF UP DUE TO REWRITING ‼️ - DO NOT COPY OR REPOST MY WORK IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER Oct 22nd, 2021 - Sep 3rd, 2023 This fic is also available on my AO3!

Elise Desmond is mere credits away from graduating with her Bachelor's in Film Production. Upon class assignment, she scours in search of the inspiration to create the film of a lifetime. Yet, all things take a drastic turn once she meets established actor, Mads Mikkelsen. Journey with Elise as she oversteps the fine line between friendship and relations that are far-more intimate.

Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's best stories-bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary 'mentor', Edgar Allan Poe.

DescriptionLolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. Later it was translated into Russian by Nabokov himself and published in New York City in 1967 by Phaedra Publishers.

'Schoolgirl' is the novella that first established Dazai as a member of Japan's literary elite. Essentially the start of Dazai's career, the 1933 work gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language, and how it illuminated the prevalent social structures of a lost time.

after getting shipped off to a boarding school, valerie meets a strange group of swedish kids who take her for the ride of her life.