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Description The Conjure Woman is a collection of fantastical stories narrated by Julius, a former slave, about life on the nearby plantations prior to the Civil War. Each involves an element of magic, be it a vine that dooms those who eat from it or a man transformed into a tree to avoid being separated from his wife. Juliusβs audience, a married couple who have just moved to the South to cultivate grapes, listen on with mixed sympathy and disbelief. They disagree on whether Julius is telling
Description Notes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is never named and is generally referred to as the Underground Man. The βundergroundβ in the book refers to the narratorβs isolation, which he described in chapter 11 as βlistening through a crack under the floor.β It is considered to be one of the first existentialist novels. With this book, Dostoevsky challenged the ideologies of his time, like nihilism
Description H. G. Wells is probably best known for his imaginative longer works, such as his novels The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man ; but he was also a prolific short story writer. This Standard Ebooks edition of his short fiction includes fifty-four of Wellsβ stories, written between 1894 and 1909 and compiled from the collections The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895), The Plattner Story and Others (1897), Tales of Time and Space (1899), Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)
Description Captain Belval, learning of a threat to his beloved nurse Little Mother Coralie, rescues her from her would-be assailants and is promptly dragged into a plot involving her husband and millions of francs worth of gold. As layer upon layer of conspiracy emerges with no obvious thread to follow, thereβs only one man who can be counted on to uncover the truth. The Golden Triangle (also known as The Return of ArsΓ¨ne Lupin) was published in 1917 in both the original French and this
Description The Murder on the Links is Agatha Christieβs second Poirot novel, featuring the brilliant Belgian detective and his sidekick, Captain Hastings. In this characteristic whodunit, Poirot is summoned to a seaside town in northern France by a desperate letter from a rich businessman, who fears that he is being stalked. Poirot arrives to find the businessman already dead, his body lying facedown in an open grave on a golf course, a knife in his backβthe victim of a mysterious murder. Over
Description Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca dβautore) is an Italian three-act play written by Luigi Pirandello in 1921, considered as one of the earliest examples of absurdist theatre. Itβs a play within a play that deals with perceptions of reality and illusion, and plays with the ideas of identity and relative truths. The plot features an acting company who have gathered to rehearse another play by Pirandello, when theyβre interrupted by 6 βcharactersβ who