A Passage To India

A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected...

Howards End

The novel follows lives of three families in England at the beginning of the 20th century: the Wilcoxes, rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half German...

Where Angels Fear To Tread

Widowed Lilia Herriton meets a young handsome Italian during her travels in Tuscany. She soon falls in love with both Italy and the young Gino and decides to stay there. Her dead...

B. J. Harrison Reads The Machine Stops

The major part of the human population lives under the surface of Earth. Humankind has created a Machine which meets all possible needs. Travelling is permitted but people do not...

B. J. Harrison Reads A Room With A View

Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin are on a vacation in Florence. The girls are given a room looking into the courtyard, but they would rather have one with a view over the river....

A Passage To India

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster. Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-nominated film, A Passage to...

A Room With A View

Join Lucy Honeychurch, a young Edwardian girl on her journey of growing up, sensual awakening and true love as she tours Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone,...

The Celestial Omnibus And Other Stories

An unnamed little boy in a London suburb observes a strange signpost that stands across the street from his house. It points to an empty alleyway and reads simply: 'To Heaven.' ...

The Longest Journey

Rickie Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two...