An universal icon and a metaphor of the human condition, the book is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has had great impact on world culture. The...
A Dream Of John Ball
Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally, but incorrectly (few of the participants were actual...
Lamalif And The Toad Skin Hat
She is a London based relics hunter and Landed in North Africa in search of a magic toad skin hat taken from her by a strange man named Aissawa, in the antic shop of her two...
The Call Of The Wild
The published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s. Strong sled dogs were in demand, and that’s how Buck the St Bernard cross Scotch...
A Drama In The Air
"A Drama in the Air" (French: "Un drame dans les airs") is an adventure short story by Jules Verne. Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a...
Mardi, And A Voyage Thither
Mardi, and a Voyage Thither is the third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two...
Round The Moon
Around the Moon (French: Autour de la Lune, 1870), Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel which continues the trip to the moon which...
The Sapphire
It follows a Sapphire given to a Captain Michael Crowther by his Burmese wife who he is deserting. When he finally decides to return to them he finds them now out of his reach and...
The Shadow Line
The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad. The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of...
