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Description Stanley Weinbaum was an influential science fiction writer who died at an early age. His short story βA Martian Odyssey,β included in this collection, was praised by science fiction luminaries like Isaac Asimov, who said the story βhad the effect on the field of an exploding grenade. With this single story, Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the worldβs best living science fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him.β This collection includes
Description Mary Shelley (then Godwin) and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With the weather against them, they decided to spend their time writing ghost stories for each other. Frankenstein is Mary Shelleyβs submission to their contest, later published anonymously in 1818. Victor Frankenstein, a strange but brilliant scientist, discovers a method of imparting life to inanimate matter. The Monster is thus born: a hideous, 8-foot-tall
Description Omar KhayyΓ‘m was a medieval Iranian mathematician, philosopher, scholar, and poet. He was thought to have composed over 1,000 rubΓ‘iyΓ‘t, or quatrains, in his lifetime. Many different scholars have translated selections of KhayyΓ‘mβs quatrains, but Edward FitzGeraldβs translation remains the most beloved. FitzGeraldβs translation is interesting in that it isnβt a literal translationβrather, FitzGerald took significant artistic license in his interpretation. Thus itβs tough to say if we
Description North of Boston is Robert Frostβs second collection of poetry. It includes some of his more famous poems, like βMending Wall,β βHome Burial,β and βAfter Apple-Picking.β
Description Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally acknowledged to have started the Romantic movement in English literatureβa period marked by a departure from the stiff and unapproachable poetry of earlier times, and by a focus on readable, relatable verse written in everyday language. Many of Wordsworthβs poems focus on the natural world and the
Description White Fang is Jack Londonβs companion novel to The Call of the Wild . In The Call of the Wild we follow a dogβs journey from domestication to wilderness, but in White Fang we see the opposite: a wild wolf-dog captured by men and eventually domesticated. White Fangβs journey isnβt an easy one; both the wild and civilization have their share of brutal violence. But he eventually seems happy in a home with a loving family. When read side-by-side with The Call of the Wild, White Fang