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620 /m/0hhy Animal Farm George Orwell 1945-08-17 {"/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans ... |
843 /m/0k36 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Alex, a teenager living in near-future England, leads his gang on nightly orgies of op... |
986 /m/0ldx The Plague Albert Camus 1947 {"/m/02m4t": "Existentialism", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The text of The Plague is divided into five parts. In the town of Oran, thousands of rats, initially unnoticed by the populace, begin to die in the streets. A hysteria de... |
1756 /m/0sww An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. In the first section o... |
2080 /m/0wkt A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge {"/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel posits that space around the Milky Way is divided into concentric layers called Zones, each being constrained ... |
2152 /m/0x5g All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1929-01-29 {"/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef"} The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a German soldier who—urged on by his school teacher—joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Weste... |
2890 /m/011zx A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Ged is a young boy on Gont, one of the larger islands in the north of the archipelago of Earthsea. His mother i... |
2950 /m/012dq Anyone Can Whistle Arthur Laurents The story is set in an imaginary American town that has gone bankrupt. The only place in town doing good business is the local sanitarium, known as “The Cookie Jar,” whose inmates look much healthier than the disgruntled townspeople. ("I'm Like the Bluebird") All the ... |
4081 /m/01b4w Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night K. W. Jeter 1996-10-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days. He finds himself drawn into a mission on behalf of the replicants he was... |
4082 /m/01b56 Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human K. W. Jeter 1995-10-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Beginning several months after the events in Blade Runner, Deckard has retired to an isolated shack outside the city, taking the replicant Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport co... |
4331 /m/01d3j Book of Joshua (Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest; and at chapter ... |
4332 /m/01d40 Book of Ezra For the Bible text, see Bible Gateway (opens at NIV version) or see King James Version The Book of Ezra consists of ten chapters: chapters 1-6, covering the period from the Decree of Cyrus to the dedication of the Second Temple, are told in the third person; chapters 7-10, dealing with th... |
4376 /m/01dlg Book of Numbers God orders Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, to number those able to bear arms—of all the men "from twenty years old and upward," and to appoint princes over each tribe. 603,550 Israelites are found to be fit for military service. In chapter 26, a generation later and after appr... |
4381 /m/01dnz Book of Ruth During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem—Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion—emigrate to the nearby country of Moab. Elimelech dies, and the sons marry two Moabite women: Mahlon marries Ruth and Chilion marries Orpa... |
4382 /m/01dpg Book of Esther Ahasuerus, ruler of a massive Persian empire, holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of the capital city Shushan. Ahasuerus orders the queen Vashti to display her beauty before the guests. She refuses. Worried all women will lear... |
4386 /m/01dqt Book of Job {"/m/02mdj1": "Religious text"} The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who is very prosperous and has seven sons and three daughters. Constantly fearing that his sons may have sinned and "cursed God in their hearts", he habitually offers burnt offerings as ... |
4449 /m/01f8p Book of Hosea First, Hosea was directed by God to marry a promiscuous woman of ill-repute, and he did so. Marriage here is symbolic of the covenantal relationship between God and Israel. However, Israel has been unfaithful to God by following other gods and breaking the commandments which are the term... |
4451 /m/01f9l Book of Jonah The plot centers on a conflict between Jonah and God. God calls Jonah to proclaim judgment to Nineveh, but Jonah resists and attempts to flee. He goes to Joppa and boards a ship bound for Tarshish. God calls up a great storm at sea, and the ship's crew cast Jonah overboard in an attempt ... |
4452 /m/01fb1 Book of Micah * The Heading (1:1): As is typical of prophetic books, an anonymous editor has supplied the name of the prophet, an indication of his time of activity, and an identification of his speech as the “word of Yahweh”, a generic term carrying a claim to prophetic legitimacy and authority. Sama... |
4454 /m/01fby Book of Haggai Haggai's message is filled with an urgency for the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the second Jerusalem temple. Haggai attributes a recent drought to the peoples' refusal to rebuild the temple, which he sees as key to Jerusalem’s glory. The book ends with the prediction of the ... |
6020 /m/01t5z Crash J. G. Ballard 1973 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is told through the eyes of narrator James Ballard, named after the author himself, but it centers on the sinister figure of Dr. Robert Vaughan, a “former TV-scientist, turned nightmare ang... |
6628 /m/01y92 Children of Dune Frank Herbert 1976 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad'dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some ... |
6629 /m/01y9j Candide, ou l'Optimisme Voltaire 1759-01 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman", "/m/0g_jj": "Picaresque novel"} Candide contains thirty episodic chapters, which may be grouped into two main schemes: one consists of two divisions, separated by the protagonist's hiatus in El Dorado; the other ... |
6630 /m/01yb0 Chapterhouse Dune Frank Herbert 1985-04 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The situation is desperate for the Bene Gesserit as they find themselves the targets of the Honored Matres, whose conquest of the Old Emp... |
6921 /m/01_mr Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} The story is presented by Le Fanu as part of the casebook of Dr Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. The story is narrated by Laura, one of the two main protagonists of the tale.... |
7817 /m/025zx The Cider House Rules John Irving 1985 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood "being of use" as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, ... |
7923 /m/026l0 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/090ts5": "Invasion literature", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} The novel is told in ... |
8237 /m/0297f Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 {"/m/0gf28": "Parody", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/059r08": "Psychological novel", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/011ys5": "Farce", "/m/0g_jj": "Picaresque novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The First Sally Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retire... |
8547 /m/02ct8 Deuteronomy (The following "literary" outline of Deuteronomy is from John Van Seters; it can be contrasted with Alexander Rofé's "covenantal" analysis in his Deuteronomy: Issues and Interpretation.) *Chapters 1–4: The journey through the wilderness from Horeb (Sinai) to Kadesh and then to Moab is reca... |
8567 /m/02cxx Dune Messiah Frank Herbert 1969 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Twelve years after the events described in Dune (1965), Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides rules as Emperor. By accepting the role of ... |
8757 /m/02fck Darwin's Dangerous Idea Daniel Dennett 1995 {"/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/06mq7": "Science"} "Starting in the Middle", Part I of Darwin's Dangerous Idea, gets its name from a quote by Willard Van Orman Quine: "Analyze theory-building how we will, we all must start in the middle. Our conceptual firsts a... |
9000 /m/02h3j Death of a Hero Richard Aldington {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the outbreak of World War I. The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main ch... |
9662 /m/02mr5 Exodus {"/m/02mdj1": "Religious text"} Egypt's Pharaoh, fearful of the Israelites' numbers, orders that all newborn boys be thrown into the Nile. A Levite woman saves her baby by setting him adrift on the river in an ark of bulrushes. Pharaoh's daughter finds the child, names him Moses, and brings him ... |
10861 /m/02y0f The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} On his thirtieth birthday, the chief financial officer of a bank, Josef K., is unexpectedly arrested by two unidentified agents from an unspecified agency for an unspecified crime. The agents' boss l... |
10862 /m/02y0x The Metamorphosis 1915 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} One day Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a "ungeheuren Ung... |
10951 /m/02yqq Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} On a rainy night while returning from his job, Guy Montag is followed by a... |
11745 /m/033fm Farmer Giles of Ham J. R. R. Tolkien {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Farmer Giles (Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo, "Giles Bronze-beard Julius Farmer of Ham") is not a hero. He is fat and red-bearded and enjoys a slow, comfortable life. But a rather deaf and short-sighted g... |
12253 /m/036xv Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers 1935 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Harriet Vane returns reluctantly to Oxford to attend the Gaudy dinner. Expecting hostility because of her notoriety, she is surprised to be we... |
12464 /m/038kg Gylfaginning Snorri Sturluson The Gylfaginning tells the story of Gylfi, a king of "the land that men now call Sweden", who after being tricked by one of the goddesses of the Æsir, wonders if all Æsir use magic and tricks for their will to be done. This is why he journeys to Asgard, but on the way he ... |
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