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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell.
More info →Orchard and Vineyard
ESCAPE
COME, shall we go, my comrade, from this den
Where falsehood reigns and we have dallied long?
Exchange the curious vanities of men
For roads of freedom and for ships of song?
One Step to Glory
Are you looking for a new heartwarming book to add to your collection?
More info →Romeo and Juliet
"Romeo and Juliet" is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal "young lovers"
More info →The Double
-THE DOUBLE- centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist.
The motif of the novella is a doppelganger (Russian "dvoynik"), known throughout the world in various guises such as the fetch.
More info →El Dorado
Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.
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