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Description Considered by many to be Maughamβs masterpiece, Of Human Bondage is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale. The novel follows Philip, a sensitive young man interested in literature and art, as he searches for happiness in London and Paris. Philip, the ostensible stand-in for Maugham, suffers from a club foot, a physical representation of the stutter that Maugham himself suffered. Philipβs love life, a central aspect to the book, also mirrors Maughamβs own stormy affairs. Maugham
Description The Enchanted Castle is a novel for young readers by Edith Nesbit, who was writing in the late Victorian and early Edwardian era in Britain. As in her other childrenβs books, it begins in the everyday world but quickly brings in the fantastical and magical. A large part of the delight of Nesbitβs books is that her children behave in quite ordinary ways, getting into scrapes, getting dirty and their clothes torn, making decisions which seem right to them at the time but which are
Description βCall me Ishmaelβ says Moby Dickβs protagonist, and with this famous first line launches one of the acclaimed great American novels. Part adventure story, part quest for vengeance, part biological textbook and part whaling manual, Moby Dick was first published in 1851. The story follows Ishmael as he abandons his humdrum life on shore for an adventure on the waves. Finding the whaler Pequod at harbour in Nantucket, he signs up for a three year term without meeting the Captain of the
Description ArsΓ¨ne Lupin, with his characteristic wit, plots over the course of nine short stories to steal many of Franceβs best antiques and artworks from under their ownersβ noses. Only his classic opponent Detective Ganimard has the brilliance to attempt to foil ArsΓ¨neβs plans, albeit with mixed results. This first collection of nine ArsΓ¨ne Lupin stories were originally serialised in the magazine Je Sais Tout from 1905 and translated into English in 1910. The final story of the set features
Description Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of GΓΆsta Berling follows the saga of the titular character as he falls from the priesthood and is rescued by the owner of a local estate. Joining the other saved souls in the pensionersβ wing of the mansion, he embarks upon a series of larger-than-life stories that tell of adventure, revelry, romance and sadness. GΓΆsta Berling was the eventual Nobel Prize winner Selma LagerlΓΆfβs first published novel, and was written as an entry to a
Description Emily Pauline Johnson, who was also known by the Mohawk name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet and author born in 1861. Born to a Mohawk father and an English mother, she was known for introducing indigenous culture to a wider North American and European audience. In Legends of Vancouver, perhaps her best-known prose work, Johnson tells stories of the Squamish people, as relayed to her by Chief Joe Capilano, whom she befriended upon moving to Vancouver in 1909. She provides her own