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31623 /m/07s8w Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll 1871 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls "Snowdrop") and a black kitten (whom she calls "Kitty")—the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—when she ponders what the world is like ... |
33651 /m/084fc Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 1952 {"/m/05qgc": "Poetry", "/m/07s9rl0": "Drama", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/05qp9": "Play"} Waiting for Godot follows a pair of men who divert themselves while waiting expectantly, vainly for someone named Godot to arrive. They claim he... |
33790 /m/08524 The Wanderer Fritz Leiber 1964 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in a future a few decades ahead of the 1960s, when it was written. The USA is still competing with the Soviet Union. Bot... |
36218 /m/090m2 2010: Odyssey Two Arthur C. Clarke 1982-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter. A joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (na... |
36681 /m/0952p Brave New World Aldous Huxley {"/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"} The novel opens in London in 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian Calendar). The va... |
37322 /m/099gy Aeneid Virgil 1943 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05qgc": "Poetry"} The Aeneid can be divided into two halves based on the disparate subject matter of Books 1–6 (Aeneas' journey to Latium in Italy) and Books 7–12 (the war in Latium). These two halves are commonly regarded as reflect... |
37373 /m/099yl Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 {"/m/05qgc": "Poetry"} The poem is separated into twelve "books" or sections, and the lengths of each book varies greatly (the longest being Book IX, with 1,189 lines, and the shortest Book VII, having 640). The Arguments at the head of each book were added in subsequent i... |
37713 /m/09dlq The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Bassanio, a young Venetian of noble rank, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont. Having squandered his estate, Bassanio approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant of Venice and a kind and generous person, who has previously ... |
37737 /m/09dtr The Invisible Man H. G. Wells 1897 {"/m/08w0_f": "Albino bias", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/06mq7": "Science", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01gw42": "Scientific romance"} A mysterious... |
38093 /m/09hhj Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Emanuel J Mickel 1869 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01gw42": "Scientific romance"} As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious sea monster, theorized... |
38114 /m/09hlp Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell 1936 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Gordon Comstock has 'declared war' on what he sees as an 'overarching dependence' on money by leaving a promising job as a copywriter for an advertising company called 'New Albion'—at which he shows great dexterity—and taking a low-payi... |
38249 /m/09jld Manon Lescaut Antoine François Prévost Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from a noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his fat... |
38279 /m/09jv6 Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code John Lions 1996 {"/m/01mkq": "Computer Science"} Unix Operating System Source Code Level Six is the kernel source code, lightly edited by Lions to better separate the functionality — system initialization and process management, interrupts an... |
38615 /m/09m9d The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus 1942 {"/m/02m4t": "Existentialism"} The essay is dedicated to Pascal Pia and is organized in four chapters and one appendix. Camus undertakes to answer what he considers to be the only question of philosophy that matters: Does the realization of the meaninglessness and ... |
39628 /m/09wdl Cymbeline William Shakespeare Imogen (or Innogen), daughter of the British king Cymbeline, is in love with Posthumus Leonatus, a man raised in her father's court who is described as possessing exceeding personal merit and martial skill. The two have secretly married, exchanging jewellery as tokens: a ... |
40121 /m/09_zl Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The story opens with Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square. Becky is portrayed as a strong-willed and cunning young woman ... |
41522 /m/0bdfv Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1817-12 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/0d6gr": "Reference", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} Seventeen-year-old, Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 1... |
41525 /m/0bdh4 Amadeus Peter Shaffer Since the original run, Shaffer has extensively revised his play, including changes to plot details; the following is common to all revisions. At the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame, and is convinced he used poison to assassinate Mozart. ... |
42478 /m/0bnjr The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge {"/m/05qgc": "Poetry"} The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest's ... |
42572 /m/0bpn5 The Eye of the World Robert Jordan 1990-01-15 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/03qfd": "High fantasy"} The Eye of the World revolves around the lives of a group of young people from Emond's Field in The Two Rivers district: Rand al'Thor, Matrim (Mat) Cauthon, Perrin Aybar... |
42573 /m/0bpnk The Great Hunt Robert Jordan 1990-11-15 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Ba'alzamon presides over a clandestine meeting as Shadow forces plot their actions and Shaitan’s return. In addition to Forsaken and Darkfriends, the meeting includes two Aes Sedai, one of whom we come t... |
42574 /m/0bpny A Crown of Swords Robert Jordan 1996-05-15 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} A Crown of Swords has three primary plotlines: * Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, prepares to attack the Forsaken Sammael in Illian while enjoying life with his friend, Min Farshaw, and attempting to ... |
42575 /m/0bpp8 Winter's Heart Robert Jordan 2000-11-07 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Many of the events of Winter's Heart take place simultaneously with the events of the next book, Crossroads of Twilight. Perrin Aybara and his followers pursue the Shaido Aiel who kidnapped his wife, Fai... |
42609 /m/0bp_r Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel"} The story starts in London on October 1, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. De... |
42645 /m/0bq9g The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison for homicide. On his journey to his home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, he meets former preacher Jim Casy whom he remembers from his childhood, and the two travel together. W... |
42673 /m/0bqg9 How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn 1939 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/07s9rl0": "Drama", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in South Wales in the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys... |
42725 /m/0bqw5 Lady Audley's Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon The novel opens with the marriage of Lucy Graham, a beautiful, doll-like blonde who enchants almost all who meet her, to Sir Michael Audley, an old, rich, and kind widower, in June 1857. Lucy was a governess for the local doctor, Mr. Dawson. Until her marria... |
42863 /m/0bs60 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Blanche DuBois is a fading, but still-attractive, Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask alcoholism and delusions of grandeur. Her poise is an illusion she presents to shield others (but most of all, herself) from her reality... |
42906 /m/0bsm5 The Queen of the Damned Anne Rice 1988-10 {"/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/0fdjb": "Supernatural", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} Part One follows several different people over the same period of several days. Several of the cha... |
43023 /m/0btc7 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} ;4 May 1699 — 13 April 1702 The book begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver, in the style of books of the time, gives a brief outline of... |
43168 /m/0bv89 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 {"/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Celie, the protagonist and narrator, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in the South. She starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has alrea... |
43206 /m/0bvhl A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 1600 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy"} The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm ... |
44005 /m/0c047 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992-09 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The historical backdrop for this novel is the Second World War in Northern Africa and Italy. Hana, a young Canadian Army nurse, lives in the abandoned Villa San Girolamo in Italy, which is filled with hidden, undet... |
44077 /m/0c0ny Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1897 Harvey Cheyne is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, who are over-indulgent parents in San Diego, California. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the young Harvey Cheyne ca... |
44245 /m/0c1wm Ramayana Valmiki Dasharatha was the king of Ayodhya. He had three queens and they are Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra. He was childless for a long time and, anxious to produce an heir, he performs a fire sacrifice known as Putra-Kameshti Yagya. As a consequence, Rama is first born to Kausalya, Bharata i... |
44447 /m/0c3ls The Forge of God Greg Bear 1987 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel features scenes and events including the discovery of a near-dead alien in the desert, who clearly says in English, "I'm sorry, but there is bad news,... |
44449 /m/0c3m3 Blood Music Greg Bear 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In the novel, renegade biotechnologist Vergil Ulam creates simple biological computers based on his own lymphocytes. Faced with orders from his nervous employer t... |
44472 /m/0c3rf The World According to Garp John Irving 1978 {"/m/0488wh": "Literary fiction"} The story deals with the life of T. S. Garp. His mother, Jenny Fields, is a strong-willed nurse who wants a child but not a husband. She encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp who was seve... |
44524 /m/0c432 Mutiny on the Bounty James Norman Hall 1932 {"/m/03g3w": "History", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood. Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mu... |
44672 /m/0c57q The Mothman Prophecies John A. Keel 1975 The book combines Keel's account of his investigation into alleged sightings of a large, winged creature called Mothman in the vicinity of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, during 1966 and 1967 with his own theories about UFOs and various supernatural phenomena, ul... |
45047 /m/0c84x The Memory of Earth Orson Scott Card {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Humanity has lived for 40 million years on a planet called Harmony, after leaving an Earth that has been destroyed by human conflict. In order not to repeat the mistakes that ... |
45076 /m/0c8c5 Sixth Column Robert A. Heinlein 1949 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A top secret research facility hidden in the Colorado mountains is the last remaining outpost of the United States Army after its defeat by the PanAsians. The conquerors had absorbed the S... |
45081 /m/0c8f1 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} "Sam" is an agent in "Section", a United States government intelligence organization. It is so secret it reports only to the President, and is entirely unknown to anyone else... |
45084 /m/0c8ff Henry V William Shakespeare Elizabethan stages did not use scenery. Acknowledging the difficulty of conveying great battles and shifts of location on a bare stage, the Chorus (a single actor) calls for a "Muse of fire" so that the actor playing King Henry can "[ā]ssume the port [bearing] of Mars". He ... |
45133 /m/0c8sb The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} At the start of the book, it is spring time: the weather is fine, and good-natured Mole loses patience with spring cleaning. He flees his underground home, heading up to take in... |
45227 /m/0c9fk The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll 1876 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} After crossing the sea guided by the Bellman's map of the Ocean—a blank sheet of paper—the hunting party arrive in a strange land. The Baker recalls that his uncle once warned him that, though catching Snarks is all well an... |
45232 /m/0c9gq Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 {"/m/012lzc": "Self-help", "/m/070wm": "Spirituality", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella"} The book tells the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a seagull who is bored with the daily squabbles over food. Seize... |
45492 /m/0cc9m I Am Legend Richard Matheson 1954 {"/m/0kflf": "Vampire fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02psyd2": "Zombies in popular culture", "/m/0hc1z": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/09vxq_p": "Catastrophic... |
45896 /m/0cfvd The Stranger Albert Camus {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02m4t": "Existentialism", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Part One begins with Meursault finding out of his mother's death. At her funeral, he expresses none of the expected emotions of grief. W... |
45903 /m/0cfw7 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962-01-01 {"/m/0mz2": "Alternate history", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Giuseppe Zangara's assassination of U.S. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1933, led to the wea... |
45908 /m/0cfxk Rocket Ship Galileo Robert A. Heinlein 1947-05-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} After World War II, three teenage boy rocket experimenters are recruited by the uncle of one of them, Dr. Cargraves, a Nobel P... |
45912 /m/0cfy7 Space Cadet Robert A. Heinlein 1948 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In 2075, teenager Matt Dodson applies to join the prestigious Space Patrol. After a number of physical, mental, and ethical tests, he is accepted as a ca... |
45918 /m/0cfzw Between Planets Robert A. Heinlein {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} A young man named Don Harvey leaves his dude ranch high school on Earth to go to his scientist parents on Mars. He visi... |
45921 /m/0cg04 Starman Jones Robert A. Heinlein 1953 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Max Jones works the family farm in the Ozark Mountains. With his father dead and his stepmother remarrying a man he detests, Max runs away from home, taki... |
45927 /m/0cg0_ Podkayne of Mars Robert A. Heinlein {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book is a first-person narrative in the form of Podkayne's diaries. Podkayne is 15 in Earth years (a bit over eight Martian years) while her genius younger brother Clark is... |
46064 /m/0ch13 Story of O Pauline Réage 1954 {"/m/02js9": "Erotica"} Published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Story of O is a tale of female submission about a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, O, who is blindfolded, chained, whipped, branded, pierced, made to wear a mask, and taught to be constantly availa... |
46184 /m/0chy_ The Star Beast Robert A. Heinlein 1954 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} An ancestor of John Thomas Stuart XI brought the alien, long-lived Lummox home from an interstellar voyage. The articulate, sentient pet he inherited has gradually grown from... |
47974 /m/0cw94 Dr. No Ian Fleming 1958-03-31 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} After recovering from tetrodotoxin poisoning inflicted by SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb (see From Russia, with Love) MI6 agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, on a "rest cure" to Jamaica. Whilst there his task is a simple assignment to investiga... |
48573 /m/0c_bp The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton 1969-05-12 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/017rf8": "Techno-thriller", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} When a military satellite returns to Earth, a recovery team is dispatched to retrie... |
48648 /m/0c_vk Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997-06-30 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Before the start of the novel, Voldemort, considered the most evil and powerful dark wizard in history, kills Harry's... |
49759 /m/0d6qm Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933-01-09 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel", "/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/016chh": "Memoir", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} Two verbless sentences introduce the scene-setting opening chapters, which describe the atmosphere in the... |
49917 /m/0d7q5 The Last Man Mary Shelley 1826-02 {"/m/09vxq_p": "Catastrophic literature", "/m/0hc1z": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Mary Shelley states in the introduction that in 1818 she discovered, in the Sibyl'... |
49922 /m/0d7qz The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Philip K. Dick 1982 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Set in the late 1960s and 1970s, the story describes the efforts of Episcopal Bishop Timothy Archer, who must cope with the theological and philosophical implications of the newly-discovere... |
50223 /m/0d955 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams 1987 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy"} Four billion years in Earth's past, a group of Salaxalans attempts to populate the earth; however, a mistake caused by their engine... |
50376 /m/0db22 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey 1968-07 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Dragonflight chronicles the story of Lessa, the sole survivor of the noble ruling family of Ruatha Hold on the northern continent of Pern. When the rest... |
52224 /m/0dqx3 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 {"/m/01qpc": "Cyberpunk", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3mj": "Postcyberpunk"} The protagonist in the story is Nell, a thete (or person without a tribe; equivalent to the lowest working class) living i... |
52803 /m/0dw9b The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo 1831-01-14 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story begins on Epiphany (6 January), 1482, the day of the Feast of Fools in Paris, France. Quasimodo, a deformed hunchback who is the bell-ringer of Notre Dame, is introduced by his crown... |
52853 /m/0dwms Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865-11-26 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Chapter 1 – Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice is feeling bored while sitting on the riverbank with... |
52927 /m/0dx46 Now Wait for Last Year Philip K. Dick 1966 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Set during a war between the 'Starmen (inhabitants of the planet Lilistar) and the Reegs, Now Wait for Last Year is the story of Eric Sweetscent, an organ-transplant doc... |
53071 /m/0dy6y The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis 1955 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The story begins in London during the summer of 1900. Two children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, meet while playing in the adjacent gardens of a row of terraced hou... |
53515 /m/0f0s8 The Patchwork Girl of Oz L. Frank Baum 1913 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Ojo the Unlucky is a Munchkin boy who, devoted to life with his uncle Unc Nunkie in the wilderness but on the verge of starvation, goes to see a neighboring "magi... |
53589 /m/0f16d To Sail Beyond the Sunset Robert A. Heinlein 1987 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The book is a memoir of Maureen Johnson Smith Long, mother, lover, and eventual wife of Lazarus Long. Maureen is ostensibly recording the events of the book while being held in a future ... |
53590 /m/0f16s Double Star Robert A. Heinlein 1956 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story, which is told in the first person, centers on down-and-out actor Lawrence Smith (stage name Lorenzo Smythe, a.k.a. "The Great Lorenzo"). A bri... |
53591 /m/0f175 Time for the Stars Robert A. Heinlein 1956 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Long Range Foundation ("LRF") is a non-profit organization that funds expensive, long-term projects for the benefit of mankind th... |
53592 /m/0f17k Citizen of the Galaxy Robert A. Heinlein 1957 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Thorby is a young, defiant slave boy recently arrived on the planet Jubbul, where he is purchased by an old beggar, Baslim the Cripple, for a trivial sum and taken to ... |
53595 /m/0f17y Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961-06-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story focuses on a human raised on Mars and his adaptation to, and understanding of, humans and their culture, which is portrayed as an amplified version of the consumerist and media-drive... |
53596 /m/0f18d Glory Road Robert A. Heinlein 1963 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Evelyn Cyril "E.C." Gordon (also known as "Easy" and "Flash") has been recently discharged from an unnamed war in Southeast Asia. He ... |
53597 /m/0f18s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 1966 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In 2075, underground colonies are scattered across the Moon (Luna), of whom most inhabitants (called "Loonies") are criminals, political exiles, or descendants thereof. The... |
53598 /m/0f196 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story takes place about 2015 AD, against a background of an overpopulated Earth, whose dysfunctional society is clearly an attempt to extrapolate into the future the... |
53600 /m/0f19l The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Robert A. Heinlein 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} A writer seated at the best restaurant of the space habitat "Golden Rule" is approached by a man who urges him that "Tolliver must die" and is himself shot before the writer's eyes... |
53673 /m/0f1s7 Methuselah's Children Robert A. Heinlein 1958 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The Howard Families derive from Ira Howard, who became rich in the California Gold Rush, but died young and childless. Fearing death, he left his money for the prolongation of human life, an... |
53720 /m/0f24d Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 Between World War I and II, a tremendously wealthy Englishman, Bartlebooth (whose name combines two literary characters, Herman Melville's Bartleby and Valery Larbaud's Barnabooth), devises a plan that will both occupy the remainder of his life and spend his ent... |
54436 /m/0f6vx The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum 1900 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Dorothy is a young orphaned girl raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the bleak landscape of a Kansas farm. She has a little black dog Toto, who is her sole... |
54932 /m/0f9pg King Ottokar's Sceptre Hergé 1939 Tintin finds a lost briefcase and returns it to the owner, Professor Hector Alembick, who is a sigillographer, an expert on seals (as in the sort used to make state documents official). He shows Tintin his collection of seals, including one which belonged to the Syldav... |
55435 /m/0fdsp Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847-12 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In 1801, Mr. Lockwood, a rich man from the south of England, rents Thrushcross Grange in the north of England for peace and recuperation. Soon after his arrival, he visits his landlord, Mr. ... |
55438 /m/0fdt5 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847-10-16 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02p6xz3": "Social criticism", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} The novel begins with a ten-year-old orphan named Jane Eyre, who is living with her maternal uncle... |
55469 /m/0fd_f Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961-11-11 {"/m/01fc50": "Anti-war", "/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy"} The development of the novel can be split into segments. The first (chapters 1–11) broadly follows ... |
55483 /m/0ff18 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719-04-25 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Crusoe (the family name corrupted from the German name "Kreutznaer") sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a ... |
55721 /m/0fgs1 King Lear William Shakespeare King Lear, who is elderly and wants to retire from power, decides to divide his realm among his three daughters, and offers the largest share to the one who loves him best. Goneril and Regan both proclaim in fulsome terms that they love him more than anything in the world... |
55737 /m/0fgws Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} When U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Panache intercepts a yacht in the Caribbean Sea, the crew discovers two men cleaning up the vessel afte... |
56575 /m/0fmw0 Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The novel is set prior to the Constitution of 1782 and tells the story of four generations of Rackrent heirs through their steward, Thady Quirk. The heirs are: the dissipated spendthrift Sir Patrick O'Shaughlin, the... |
57328 /m/0frwk Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend and a Roman praetor. Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Caius Cassius—that Caesar intends to turn republican Rome into a monarchy under his ... |
57344 /m/0frym Emma Jane Austen 1815-12 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0d6gr": "Reference", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/03p5xs": "Comedy of manners", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and p... |
57766 /m/0fv9n Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 1964 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story revolves around a poor young boy named Charlie Bucket born to a penniless, starving family. His two sets of grandparents re... |
58406 /m/0fzv5 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery 1908-06 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Anne, a young orphan from fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia, (based upon the real community of New London) is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' home... |
58619 /m/0g04v The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 1984 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The 'Wasp Factory' of the title is a huge clock face encased in a glass box and salvaged from the local dump. Behind each of the 12 numerals is a trap which leads to a different ritual death (for example burning, crushing, or ... |
58620 /m/0g056 Espedair Street Iain Banks 1987 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} "Two days ago I decided to kill myself. I would walk and hitch and sail away from this dark city to the bright spaces of the wet west coast, and there throw myself into the tall, glittering seas beyond Iona (with its cargo of m... |
58621 /m/0g05k The Crow Road Iain Banks 1992 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} This Bildungsroman is set in the fictional Argyll town of Gallanach (by its description, reminiscent of Oban but on the north east shore of Loch Crinan), the real village of Lochga... |
58622 /m/0g05x Consider Phlebas Iain Banks 1987 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The Culture and the Idiran Empire are at war in a galaxy-spanning conflict. Horza, a mercenary capable of altering his appearance at will (a Changer), is assigned the task of retrieving a dispossessed Cu... |
58665 /m/0g0l4 Inversions Iain Banks 1998 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The book takes place on a fictional planet based on late-Middle Ages Europe. It alternates chapter-by-chapter between two concurrent storylines. The first storyline is presented as a written account from Oelph... |
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