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1117080 /m/047h03 Deepwater Black Ken Catran {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The main plot involved a virus that breaks out and leaves the humans residing on Earth doomed. However, in a desperate attempt before the end, all humanity's resources are dedicated ... |
1117336 /m/047htv The Death Ship B. Traven {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Set just after World War I, The Death Ship describes the predicament of merchant seamen who lack documentation of citizenship and cannot find legal residence or employment in any nation. The narrator is Gerard Gales, an US sailor ... |
1117350 /m/047hwy The Magic Finger Roald Dahl {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story is about the Gregg family that hunts ducks for fun and is narrated by an unnamed eight-year-old girl who lives... |
1117355 /m/047hy9 The Twits Roald Dahl 1980 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A hideous, vindictive, spiteful couple known as the Twits live together in a brick house without windows (as they believe that they are less likely to be spied on that way) with ... |
1117368 /m/047hzp George's Marvelous Medicine Roald Dahl 1981 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} George is an 8 year-old boy who lives in a farm with his mother, father and grandmother. He is fed up with his Grandma's selfishness, grumpiness and her attitude towards him, especial... |
1117371 /m/047h_c The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Roald Dahl {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story itself is loosely based around Billy, a young boy who has always dreamed of owning a sweet shop, especially since there is an abandoned one named The... |
1117383 /m/047j0d Esio Trot Roald Dahl 1990 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Mr. Hoppy is a shy old man who lives alone in an apartment. For many years, he has been secretly in love with Mrs. Silver, a woman who lives below him. Mr. Hoppy frequently leans... |
1117402 /m/047j3k The Vicar of Nibbleswicke Roald Dahl 1991 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Reverend Robert Lee, the new vicar of Nibbleswicke, is suffering from a rare and acutely embarrassing condition: Back-to-Front Dyslexia, a fictional type of d... |
1118191 /m/047lk6 For Love of the Game Michael Shaara {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} On the second to last day of the season, Chapel's team, the Atlanta Hawks, are about to play against the New York Yankees. Chapel receives news from a friend in the media that he is about to be traded. Just the night before, his girlfriend ... |
1119552 /m/047q5n The Lions of Al-Rassan Guy Gavriel Kay 1995-05 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Like most of Kay's novels, this contains a large amount of political intrigue and religious strife. At the opening of the novel, the penin... |
1119607 /m/047qb9 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman P. D. James {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Young private detective Cordelia Gray walks into the office she shares with former police detective Bernie Pryde to find her partner dead. He slashed his wrist after finding out he had ... |
1120029 /m/047rst Asterix in Britain 1966 Julius Caesar has invaded Britain and succeeded in his conquest, mainly because the British soldiers under Cassivelaunos stop fighting every day to drink hot water (with a drop of milk) and they refuse to fight over the weekend. Caesar, using his military genius, decides onl... |
1120645 /m/047trg Beyond Freedom and Dignity B. F. Skinner The book is organized into nine chapters. In this chapter Skinner argues that a technology of behavior is possible and that it can be used to help solve currently pressing human issues such as over-population and warfare. "Almost all major problems involve h... |
1120690 /m/047txv Scorpius John Gardner 1988-06-01 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} After being connected to the death of a woman in London, Bond is called in by M to aid the investigation. Returning from Hereford, a Sergeant Pearlman tags along by driving Bond back, during which they are attacked and involved in a high-sp... |
1120915 /m/047vlt The Amateur Marriage Anne Tyler 2004 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The plot concerns the marriage of Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay, who meet when he tends to her bloodied brow in his family's grocery store, located in a primarily Eastern European conclave in Baltimore, in December ... |
1121236 /m/047wd7 Crabwalk Günter Grass 2002 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The narrator of the novella is the journalist Paul Pokriefke, who was born on 30 January 1945 on the day that the Strength Through Joy ship, the Wilhelm Gustloff, was sunk. His young mother-to-be, Tulla Pokriefke (born in Danzig, and already known to r... |
1121344 /m/047wtd Mossflower Brian Jacques 1988 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story begins in the Mossflower Wood, where a community of animals suffers under the tyranny of a ruling wildcat named Verdauga. When a mouse from ... |
1122051 /m/047yzb Into the Wild Jon Krakauer 1996 {"/m/014dsx": "Travel", "/m/017fp": "Biography", "/m/04z2hx": "Travel literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction", "/m/0xdf": "Autobiography"} On September 6, 1992, Christopher McCandless's body is found inside an abandoned bus in Alaska ... |
1123003 /m/0484dv The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain 1867 The narrator is sent by a friend on an errand to visit an old man, Simon Wheeler, to find an old acquaintance of his friend, Leonidas W. Smiley. The narrator finds Simon at the "decayed mining camp of Angel's" The narrator asks the fat,... |
1123156 /m/0485hs Lord Brocktree Brian Jacques 2000-09-01 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} This book revolves around the badger Lord Brocktree, father of Boar the Fighter, grandfather of Bella of Brockhall, and great-grandfather of... |
1123273 /m/048686 Martin the Warrior Brian Jacques 1993 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Martin the Warrior tells the story of a young mouse named Martin, a slave in Marshank under the cruel stoat Badrang the Tyrant. When Badrang l... |
1124243 /m/048b9f The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements Eric Hoffer 1951 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} Hoffer argues that all mass movements such as fascism, communism, and religion spread by promising a glorious future. To be successful, these mass movements need the adherents to be willing to sac... |
1124244 /m/048b9s Binary Michael Crichton 1972 {"/m/017rf8": "Techno-thriller", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The villain is a middle-class small businessman named John Wright who decides to assassinate the President of the United States. He spends his life savings to carry out the theft of a U.S. Army shipment ... |
1126435 /m/048hyg Voyage from Yesteryear James P. Hogan 1982 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story begins in the early 21st century, just as an as-of-yet unnamed automated space probe is about to be sent from Earth to find habitable exoplanets. When it app... |
1126555 /m/048j97 Mortal Engines Philip Reeve 2001 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/06www": "Steampunk"} The main character of Mortal Engines is Tom Natsworthy, a fifteen-year old o... |
1127009 /m/048l5x Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley 1936 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel focuses on the life of Anthony Beavis, with flashbacks into different moments of his life, as he discovers pacifism and then mysticism. |
1127863 /m/048nsz Payasos en la lavadora Álex de la Iglesia 1997 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Álex de la Iglesia signs only two pages of this novel. In this introduction he states he's found a laptop computer lost by poet Juan Carlos Satrústegui. On it, he's read a file called Payasos en la lavadora. Si... |
1128226 /m/048pyl Predator's Gold Philip Reeve 2003 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/06www": "Steampunk", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel"} The story begins when the two aviators meet Professor Pennyroyal aboard Airhaven, who persuades them to... |
1129093 /m/048sgc The Piano Lesson August Wilson * Act 1, Scene 1 The Boy Willie and Lymon enter into the Charles household at dawn with a truck full of watermelon they intend to sell. Against his better judgement and Uncle Doaker's insistence, Boy Willie calls awake his sister Berniece, whom he has not seen in thre... |
1129268 /m/048sxp How Far Can You Go? David Lodge 1980 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book deals with the intersecting lives of a group of English Catholics from their years as students at University College London in the early 1950s up to the late 1970s. The characters are confronted with a wide range of issues and experi... |
1130010 /m/048vzf Horton Hatches the Egg Dr. Seuss 1940 _ The book concerns an elephant named Horton, who is convinced by Mayzie (a lazy, irresponsible bird) to sit on her egg while she takes a short "break", which in actuality ends up being Mayzie's permanent relocation to Palm Beach. Naturally, the absurd sight of a... |
1130241 /m/048wds Moonseed Stephen Baxter 1998-08-03 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Moonseed is an exploration of what could possibly happen when rock returned from the Apollo 18 mission (which was actually cancelled in 1970). In the book, the rock contain a ... |
1131095 /m/048y_b The Sickness Unto Death Søren Kierkegaard 1849 Anti-Climacus introduces the book with a reference to Gospel of John 11.4: "This sickness is not unto death." This quotation comes from the story of Lazarus, in which Jesus raises a man from the dead. However, Anti-Climacus raises the question: would no... |
1133955 /m/0495kx The Horse's Mouth Joyce Cary 1944 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Jimson's father, based on a real person known to Cary, was an Academy artist who is heart-broken when Impressionism drives his style from popular taste. Jimson has put aside any consideration of acceptance by either academy or public and paint... |
1136819 /m/049f7y A Game at Chess Thomas Middleton (Note: the act and scene divisions of this synopsis follow the edition of the play in "Women Beware Women and Other Plays," edited by Richard Dutton, Oxford 1999). Prologue The Prologue explains that the forthcoming stage play will be based on a game of chess, with ... |
1137787 /m/049j60 Odd Thomas Dean Koontz 2003 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} In the beginning of the book, Odd Thomas is silently approached by the ghost of a young girl brutally raped and murdered, and through his unique ability to understan... |
1137862 /m/049jgj Dune: House Atreides Kevin J. Anderson 1999-10-05 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} The novel begins on the planet of Arrakis, 35 years before the events of the original novel Dune. The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen has just taken over the governorship of Arrakis (also called Dune) from his younger brother ... |
1137907 /m/049jp2 A House-Boat on the Styx John Kendrick Bangs 1895 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0707q": "Short story", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up to the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its... |
1139574 /m/049qj6 Hannibal Rising Thomas Harris 2006-12-05 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Lecter is eight years old at the beginning of the novel (1941), living in Lecter Castle in Lithua... |
1139745 /m/049r23 The Teeth of the Tiger Tom Clancy 2003-08-01 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In Rome, a Mossad station chief is assassinated. The murder piques the interest of the Campus, an "off-the-books" intelligence agency situated in direct line-of-sight between the CIA and... |
1139804 /m/049r9p Hero and Leander Christopher Marlowe 1598 Marlowe's poem relates the Greek legend of Hero and Leander, youths living in cities on opposite sides of the Hellespont, a narrow body of water in what is now northwestern Turkey. Hero is a priestess or devotee of Venus (goddess of love and beauty) in Sesto... |
1139944 /m/049rsr The Stupidest Angel Christopher Moore {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/0246p": "Comic fantasy", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} An angel named Raziel (previously in Moore's novel Lamb) is sent to Earth to grant the wish of a child; he decides to h... |
1139964 /m/049rxx Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain Isaac Asimov 1987 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story takes place in the mid to late 21st century, but in a world where the Cold War has ended, yet the Soviet regime remains strong and proud. Americans and Soviets enjoy ... |
1140187 /m/049t08 Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Barbara, a veteran faculty member at a comprehensive school in London, is neither a reliable nor a disinterested first-person narrator in the story. A lonely, unmarried woman in her early sixties, she is eager to find a special, close friend. How... |
1140236 /m/049t4v Cycle of the Werewolf Stephen King {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story is set in the fictional town of Tarker's Mills, Maine. A werewolf is viciously killing people and animals ... |
1142625 /m/049_l4 The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy 1889 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he ... |
1142991 /m/04b0fc Knight Templar Leslie Charteris 1930 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The novel, a direct sequel to its predecessor, The Last Hero sees Templar and his organization taking revenge on an arms dealer named Rayt Marius, following the death of ... |
1143004 /m/04b0ht The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life Raymond Kurzweil 1993-01 Atherosclerosis is a disease which is characterized by a progressive buildup of rigid material inside artery walls and channels. Eventually, they become so clogged that blood flow is stopped and the victim suffers a heart attack. This dise... |
1143535 /m/04b19g The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath H. P. Lovecraft 1943 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away befo... |
1143642 /m/04b1h2 The Man Who Planted Trees Jean Giono 1953 The story begins in the year 1910, when this young man is undertaking a lone hiking trip through Provence, France, and into the Alps, enjoying the relatively unspoiled wilderness. The narrator runs out of water in a treeless, desolate valley where only wild ... |
1144904 /m/04b4nn Cloak of Deception James Luceno {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Prior to the events The Phantom Menace, Palpatine politically manipulates his colleagues in the Galactic Senate, especially supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum. As the Sith Lord Da... |
1145369 /m/04b66v Black House Stephen King 2001-09-15 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} A series of murders has begun to plague the town of French Landing, Wisconsin. The mu... |
1145520 /m/04b6pb Bodas de sangre Federico García Lorca As the play opens, the Mother speaks with her son, the groom. It is revealed that the son's father had been killed a few years ago by a family named the Felixes. The Mother reacts violently when her son attempts to ask for a knife to cut grapes in the vineyard,... |
1145524 /m/04b6qh Yerma Federico García Lorca * Act 1, scene 1: Yerma has been married two years. She wants to strengthen her husband, Juan, so he can give her children. Telling Yerma to stay at home, Juan goes back to his work in the olive groves, and Yerma talks and sings to the child she wishes she were carrying.... |
1146018 /m/04b86n Eye for Eye Orson Scott Card {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Mick Winger has an unusual gift and with it has accidentally killed several people. When Mick gets angry at people, his power manifests itself by launching an... |
1146094 /m/04b8dy Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe An entomologist, Junpei Niki (played in the film by Eiji Okada), is on an expedition to collect insects that inhabit sand dunes. When he misses the last bus, villagers suggest he stay the night. They guide him down a rope ladder to a house in a sand quarry where a young ... |
1146823 /m/04bb21 Monsignor Quixote Graham Greene 1982-09-27 {"/m/02yq81": "Comic novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy"} Father Quixote, a parish priest in the little town of El Toboso in Spain's La Mancha region, regards himself as a descendant of Cervantes' character... |
1146965 /m/04bb9y The Ghost Writer Philip Roth 1979 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes (and who, it has been argued, is a portrait of B... |
1147274 /m/04bc7n Politics Adam Thirlwell 2003-08-28 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Nana, an attractive young "non-talker" in her mid-twenties—"tall, thin, pale, blonde, breasty"—who is working on her M.A. thesis, lives with her "Papa", the "benevolent angel" of the story, in Edgware, a subur... |
1149427 /m/04bjx3 The Phoenix and the Carpet E. Nesbit 1904 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} This middle volume of the trilogy that began with Five Children and It and concludes with The Story of the Amulet deviates somewhat from t... |
1151016 /m/04bnyz The Basic Eight Daniel Handler 1998-04 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Flannery Culp is a senior at Roewer High School in San Francisco. Over the course of the year, Flan records the events of her life in a diary - which, after some heavy editing by Flannery herself, some years after the fact, becomes the na... |
1155183 /m/04bx18 Mowgli's Brothers Rudyard Kipling Father Wolf and Mother Wolf (Raksha), a pair of Indian wolves raising a family of cubs, are furious to learn that Shere Khan the lame tiger is hunting in their part of the jungle because he might kill men and bring human retribution upon the jungle. But when Father... |
1155591 /m/04by25 Not This August Cyril M. Kornbluth 1955 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} By 1965, the United States and Canada have been at war with the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic for three years. Both sides' atomic weapons are ineffective as anti-aircraft missi... |
1155631 /m/04by63 The Cold Equations The story takes place entirely aboard an Emergency Dispatch Ship (EDS) headed for the frontier planet Woden with a load of desperately needed medical supplies. The pilot, Barton, discovers a stowaway: an eighteen-year-old girl. By law, all EDS stowaways are to be jettisoned beca... |
1155846 /m/04byp0 The Warlock of Firetop Mountain Ian Livingstone 1982 {"/m/03ff00": "Gamebook"} The player takes the role of an adventurer on a quest to find the treasure of a powerful Warlock, hidden deep within Firetop Mountain. People from a nearby village advise told that the treasure is stored in a chest with tw... |
1158502 /m/04c4ys Armageddon 2419 A.D. Philip Francis Nowlan {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The main character and the narrator in Armageddon 2419 A.D. is Anthony Rogers, who later appears in the various comic strips, radio shows, and film serials that follow as "Buck Rogers". Rogers recounts the events of the ... |
1159016 /m/04c6m2 Doctor Glas Hjalmar Söderberg 1905 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} Doctor Glas is told in the form of a journal. The main character is Dr. Glas, a physician. The antagonist is Reverend Gregorius, a morally corrupt clergyman. Gregorius' beautiful young wife confides in Dr. Glas... |
1161718 /m/04cfzh A Dog of Flanders Ouida {"/m/07s9rl0": "Drama", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel"} In the 19th century, a boy named Nello becomes an orphan at the age of two when his mother dies in the Ardennes. His grandfather Jehan Daas, who lives in a small village near the city of Antwerp, t... |
1162324 /m/04chpv The General in His Labyrinth Gabriel García Márquez 1989 {"/m/03g3w": "History", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The novel is written in the third-person with flashbacks to specific events in the life of Simón Bolívar, "the General". It begins on May 8, 1830 in Santa Fe de Bogotá. The General is prep... |
1163002 /m/04ckbf Birdsong Sebastian Faulks {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/098tmk": "War novel"} While most of the novel concentrates on Stephen's life in France before and during the war, the novel also focuses on the life of Stephen's granddaughter, Elizabeth, and her attempts to fi... |
1164368 /m/04cp2q A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A Little Princess opens with seven-year-old Sara Crewe and her father, Captain Crewe, arriving at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London. Captain Cre... |
1164887 /m/04cqw4 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey 2000 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Ned Kelly begins his autobiography with a description of his father, John "Red" Kelly, an Irishman transported to Van Diemen's Land and eventually ... |
1165276 /m/04crtt Night of January 16th Ayn Rand {"/m/037750": "Ergodic literature"} The plot centers on a trial to decide whether Bjorn Faulkner has been murdered by his secretary, Karen Andre. Prior to the start of the play, Faulkner had been a prominent businessman who swindled millions of dollars to invest in the... |
1166383 /m/04cvx9 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985-01-21 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/05wkc": "Postmodernism", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Set at an bucolic Midwestern college known only as The-College-on-the-Hill, White Noise follows a year in the life of Jack Gladney, a professor who has made... |
1166981 /m/06g1y4d The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 2000 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion (i.e. the eventual emergence of cloning as a replacement for the sexual reproduction of the human race), the narrative focuses almost exclus... |
1168103 /m/04c_lh The Man Who Japed Philip K. Dick 1956 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} The Man Who Japed is set in the year 2114. After a devastating twentieth century limited nuclear war, a South African ("Afrikaans Empire") military survivor named General ... |
1168927 /m/04d1l7 The Spire William Golding 1964-12 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Jocelin, the dean of the cathedral, directs the construction of a towering spire funded by his aunt, Lady Alison, a former mistress of the King. The ... |
1169626 /m/04d3jj Warchild Karin Lowachee 2002-04-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story starts when eight year old Joslyn Musey's parents die in a vicious pirate attack on his home ship, the merchant Mukudori. Jos, along with a handful of the ships other ... |
1169711 /m/04d3qf Lucky Wander Boy D. B. Weiss 2003-02 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story involves Adam Pennyman and his obsession with and attempts to catalog video games into a book called "The Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments". He is particularly obsessed with the fictional Japa... |
1169894 /m/04d423 The Sykaos Papers E. P. Thompson {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} An alien is sent to live among Earthlings. He describes his adventures in journal form. At first he looks like a young human but as he begins to experience more of life on Earth he begins to age and ... |
1172256 /m/04d9vr Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata 1935 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Snow Country is a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha that takes place in the remote hot spring (onsen) town of Yuzawa (Kawabata himself did not mention the name of the town in his novel). The hot spr... |
1172386 /m/04db4q The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1915 {"/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/0174gw": "Locked room mystery"} Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson receive a letter from an informant known by the pseudonym Fred Porlock. Porlock is part of Professor Moriarty's criminal organization. The letter is written ... |
1172899 /m/04dchy Past Mortem Ben Elton 2004 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} When Adam Bishop, a middle-aged self-made man in the building trade, is cruelly murdered at his London home Detective Inspector Ed Newson has a hunch that the crime has bee... |
1173252 /m/04dd9g And Quiet Flows the Don Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 1934 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel deals with the life of the Cossacks living in the Don River valley during the early 20th century, probably around 1912, just prior to World War I. The plot revolves around the Melekhov family of Tatarsk, who... |
1173472 /m/04ddvn Six Days of the Condor James Grady {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller"} Ronald Malcolm is a CIA employee who works in a clandestine office in Washington, D.C. responsible for analyzing the plots of mystery and spy novels. One day, when he should be in the office, Malcolm slips out a basement entrance for lunch... |
1173718 /m/04dflx The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander 1965-06 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The story opens at Caer Dallben where Dallben the enchanter has raised the orphan Taran from infancy. It is early autumn more than a year after the defeat of Ar... |
1174295 /m/04dh64 Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/06ms6": "Sociology"} Thoreau asserts that because governments are typically more harmful than helpful, they therefore cannot be justified. Democracy is no cure for this, as majorities simply by virtue of being majorities do not also ... |
1174475 /m/04dhpd Whirlwind James Clavell 1986 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Gavallan, based in Scotland, runs S-G Helicopter company operating in Iran during the Shah's reign. When Khomeini comes to power, Gavallan must get his pilots and their families, a... |
1177458 /m/04dqx9 The Magician W. Somerset Maugham 1908 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Arthur Burdon, a renowned English surgeon, is visiting Paris to see his fiancée, Margaret Dauncey. Margaret is studying art in Parisian school, along with her friend Susie Boyd. O... |
1178757 /m/04dvpf Silas Marner George Eliot 1861-04 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slu... |
1178825 /m/04dvv9 Gorgias Plato The dialogue begins just after Gorgias has given a speech. Callicles says that Gorgias is a guest in his home, and has agreed to a private audience with Socrates and his friend Chaerephon. Socrates gets Gorgias to agree to his cross-examination style of conversation, asks him question... |
1179735 /m/04dypd Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Jeffrey Archer 1976 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Harvey Metcalfe, over 40 years, has mastered the shady deal in advancing from messenger boy to mogul. But by selling inflated oil stock, he has cheated the wrong men - Stephen Bradley, an American professor at University o... |
1183219 /m/0bvs20l The Man Who Never Was Ewen Montagu 1954 Operation Mincemeat involved the acquisition and dressing up of a human cadaver as a "Major William Martin, R.M." and putting it into the sea near Huelva, Spain. Attached to the dead body was a brief-case containing fake letters falsely stating that the Allie... |
1183767 /m/04f9bt La Cousine Bette Honoré de Balzac 1846 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The first third of the novel provides a lengthy exploration of the characters' histories. Balzac makes this clear after 150 pages: "Ici se termine, en quelque sorte, l'introduction de cette histoire." ("Here ends what is, in a way, the intr... |
1184662 /m/04fd3x I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe 2004 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} I am Charlotte Simmons is the story of college student Charlotte Simmons's first semester-and-a-half at the prestigious Dupont University. A high school graduate from a poverty-stricken rural town, her intelligence and hard work at school ... |
1184751 /m/04fd7x Akhenaten: Son of the Sun Moyra Caldecott 1986-06-12 {"/m/03g3w": "History", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story begins with the suffering of a boy oracle, or medium, about to be sealed alive into a pyramid chamber for three days so that he may "astral-travel" to the realms of the gods and ... |
1184901 /m/04fdlm First Love Ivan Turgenev 1860-12 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} First Love is an example of a frame story. The beginning starts with the protagonist, Vladimir Petrovich, in a party. The party guests are taking turns recounting the stories of their first loves. When Vladimir's turn comes to tell his story, he ... |
1184942 /m/04fdns Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun Moyra Caldecott 1989-06 {"/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Ancient Egypt 3500 years ago - a land ruled by the all-powerful female king, Hatshepsut. Ambitious, ruthless and worldly: a woman who established Amun as the chief god of Egypt, bestowing his Priesthood with unprece... |
1187127 /m/04fly7 The Natural Bernard Malamud 1952 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel opens with 19-year-old Roy Hobbs on a train to Chicago with his manager Sam. He is traveling to Chicago for a tryout for the Chicago Cubs. Other passengers on the train include sportswriter Max Mercy, Walter "The ... |
1188898 /m/04fsbh Story Time Edward Bloor 2001 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} When the school district of Whittaker Magnet School expands to cover Kate and George's duplex, they are forced to go to the frightening school, which is suspected to house a demon. But when th... |
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