James Fitzgerald likes his life the way it is. He has a stable academic career teaching American literature; a comfortable townhouse in Brooklyn; a satisfying, open marriage with his partner of ...więcej »
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. T...więcej »
Fini's satirical attack, Americo, is a humorous take on the notion that wealth and power are earned by individuals on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than bestowed by the se...więcej »
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slo...więcej »
'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or spe...więcej »
Not everything is what it seems.The sleepy Appalachian village of Drovers Gap hides a dark secret beneath its placid facades - an insatiable evil that hungers to devour the tow...więcej »
The year is AD 877, and King Alfred has succeeded in driving the marauding Danes from his kingdom - for the time being. Edwin and his sister Edith are just beginning to enjoy their liberty when,...więcej »
He's a disgraced actor. She's the daughter of Hollywood royalty. Both are hiding in the Scottish Highlands, but despite their antagonistic attraction, they can't seem to hide from each o...więcej »
Dead men tell no tales... Or do they? Inside a rusting German U-Boat are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. 4...więcej »
"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleas...więcej »
EDMUND SPENSER: AMORETTI
The Amoretti by Edmund Spenser is one of the great Elizabethan cycles of love poetry. The Amoretti cycle of poems is printed here in full, with each sonnet on its own...więcej »
It's 50 years or so into the future, and there's a spot of bother on the astral plane. The Hove Space Program and the last Bunnyman set out on a vision quest across a broken Britain to sort it all ...więcej »
Fanny Campbell is a fiery 18-year-old farm girl in pre-Revolutionary War Rhode Island. Her parents taught her to sail, hunt, fish, ride, fight with broadswords, and be an independent thinker. Th...więcej »
The award-winning story of Sarah Ali, a smart, driven young Muslim girl living in small town America who falls for the new guy at her high school. Family and friends misunderstand their dev...więcej »
Due to the 2016 EU Referendum there had been a major ideological shift in the British political landscape and coming to the fore was a Member of Parliament like no other. Dale Semble was totally...więcej »
First published in 1925, Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" is widely considered to be one of the best American novels of the twentieth-century. It is the classic tragedy that follows the ...więcej »