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142471 /m/011ytx Chocolat Joanne Harris 1999-03-04 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/0127jb": "Magic realism", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story begins as two strangers, Vianne Rocher, and her small daughter Anouk, move into the small Fre... |
142739 /m/011_bt The Ghost Road Pat Barker 1995 {"/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Prior, despite his new-found peace of mind and engagement to munitions worker Sarah, has been affected by the war and therefore does not have a lot of concern for his safety. Prior has been cured of shell-shock and is pre... |
143623 /m/0124_6 Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin 1967-03-12 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} The book centers on Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman who has just moved into the Bramford, an old Gothic Revival style New York City apartment building with her husband, Guy, a struggling actor. The pair i... |
143815 /m/0125zf This Perfect Day Ira Levin 1970 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Li RM35M4419, nicknamed "Chip" (as in "chip off the old block") by his nonconformist grandfather Jan, is a typical child Member who, ... |
143827 /m/0125_x The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin 1988-10-21 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Yakov Liebermann is a Nazi hunter: he runs a center in Vienna that documents crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Holocaust. The waning interest of the Western natio... |
143836 /m/01262n A Descent into the Maelstrom Edgar Allan Poe 1841-04 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old—"You suppos... |
144074 /m/01277_ Sliver Ira Levin {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} When working woman Kay Norris makes the acquaintance of a handsome and friendly young man who lives in the same "sliver" building, she does not know at first that he is the owner. While keeping a low profile him... |
144684 /m/012btv The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe 1841-04 The story surrounds the baffling double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter in the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. Newspaper accounts of the murder reveal that the mother's throat is so badly cut that her head is barely attached ... |
144688 /m/012bwf The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe 1844-12 {"/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/0707q": "Short story"} The unnamed narrator is discussing with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin some of his most celebrated cases when they are joined by the Prefect of the Police, a man known as G... |
145429 /m/012gzc The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 1021 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The work recounts the life of a son of the Japanese emperor, known to readers as Hikaru Genji, or "Shining Genji". For political reasons, Genji is relegated to commoner status (by being given the surname Minamoto) and begins a career as a... |
145627 /m/012j5w Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian 1970 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The story starts out on April 18, 1800, in Port Mahon, Minorca, a base of the Royal Navy at that time. A shipless lieutenant wasting away in port, Jack Aubrey, meets St... |
145636 /m/012j7v The Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent Benét 1937 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0707q": "Short story"} A local farmer, Jabez Stone, is plagued with unending bad luck, causing him to finally swear that "it's enough to make a man want to sell his soul to the devil!" Stone is visited the next day by... |
146029 /m/012lnh The Luck of Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1844 Redmond Barry of Bally Barry, born to a genteel but ruined Irish family, fancies himself a gentleman. At the prompting of his mother, he learns what he can of courtly manners and sword-play, but fails at more scholarly subjects like Latin. He ... |
146188 /m/012mhj The End of Eternity Isaac Asimov 1955 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/07s2s": "Time travel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Eternity of the title is an organization and a place which exists outside time. It is staffed by male humans called Etern... |
147014 /m/012sgg The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1855 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel tells the story of Colonel Thomas Newcome, a virtuous and upstanding character. It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the professio... |
147951 /m/012yyq Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1857 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel begins in Marseilles "thirty years ago" (i.e. ca. 1826) with the notorious murderer Rigaud informing his cell mate that he has murdered his wife. There is also the character Arthur Clennam, who is returning to London to see his mothe... |
149096 /m/0133_b A Man Called Horse Dorothy M. Johnson 1968 {"/m/0707q": "Short story"} The protagonist is a Boston aristocrat who is captured by a Native American tribe. Initially enslaved, he comes to respect his captors' culture and gains their respect. He joins the tribe by showing his bravery and, later, gets bac... |
149134 /m/013499 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and Gino, a handsome Italian much younger... |
149679 /m/0137fq Shame Salman Rushdie 1983-10-12 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} This story takes place in a town called, "Q" which is actually a fictitious version of Pakistan. In "Q" the 3 sisters (Chunni, Munnee, and Bunny Shakil) simultaneously pretend to give birth... |
151636 /m/013r0t Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction"} Trent's Last Case is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit with a place in detective fiction history because it is the first major sendup of that genre:... |
151803 /m/013rt4 Play Samuel Beckett 1963 The curtain rises on three identical grey funeral “urns”, about three feet tall by preference, arranged in a row facing the audience. They contain three stock characters. In the middle urn is a man (M). To his right is his wife (W1) or long-time partner. The third urn holds h... |
152925 /m/013yny Waverley Walter Scott 1814 {"/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The eponymous English protagonist, Edward Waverley, has been brought up in the family home by his uncle, Sir Everard Waverley, who maintains the family Tory and Jacobite sympathies, while Edward's Whig father works for the Hanoverian governme... |
153150 /m/013zzr The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice 1985 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} Set in the late 18th century to the late 1980s, the story follows the 200-year-long life of the... |
153449 /m/0140hq The Tale of the Body Thief Anne Rice 1992 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/03rllnc": "Inspirational", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} At the beginning of the story, Lestat grows depressed an... |
153476 /m/0140ll Memnoch the Devil Anne Rice 1995-07-03 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} After stalking and killing Roger, a ruthless but enthrallingly passionate mobster, Lestat is approached by Roger's ghost. Roger... |
154524 /m/0146hq The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero... |
154527 /m/0146jd The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinism Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade 1905 {"/m/02js9": "Erotica"} The 120 Days Of Sodom is set in a remote medieval castle, high in the mountains and surrounded by forests, detached from the rest of the world and not set at any specifi... |
155311 /m/014bqn War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 {"/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} War and Peace has a large cast of characters, the majority of whom are introduced in the first book. Some are actual historical figures, such as Napoleon and Alexander I. While the s... |
155505 /m/014chh On the Beach Nevil Shute 1957 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0hc1z": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World W... |
155591 /m/014cy4 La Fortune des Rougon Émile Zola 1871 After a stirring opening on the eve of the coup d'état, involving an idealistic young village couple joining up with the republican militia in the middle of the night, Zola then spends the next few chapters going back in time to pre-Revolutionary Provence, and pr... |
155592 /m/014cyj Son Excellence Eugène Rougon Émile Zola 1876 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel opens in 1857 with Rougon's career at a low ebb. In conflict with the Emperor over an inheritance claim involving a relative of the Empress, Rougon resigns from his position as premier of the Corps législatif before he can be... |
155594 /m/014cyx La Curée Émile Zola 1871-02 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book opens with scenes of astonishing opulence, beginning with Renée and Maxime lazing in a luxurious horse-drawn carriage, very slowly leaving a Parisian park (the Bois de Boulogne) in the 19th century-equivalent of a traffic jam. It is made clear... |
155597 /m/014cz8 L'Argent Émile Zola 1891 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel takes place in 1864-1869, beginning a few months after the death of Saccard's second wife Renée (see La curée). Saccard is bankrupt and an outcast among the Bourse financiers. Searching for a way to reestablish himself, Saccard is struck by plan... |
155638 /m/014d57 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel follows Oedipa Maas, a Californian housewife who becomes entangled in a convoluted historical mystery when her ex-lover dies and designates her the co-executor of his est... |
155763 /m/014dxv Jack of Shadows Roger Zelazny 1971 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in a world that is tidally locked. Thus one side of the planet is always in light, and the other in darkness. Science rules on the daysid... |
156205 /m/014hf6 Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers 1923 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery"} Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, telephones to say that Thipps, an architect hired to do some work on her local church, has just found a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath in his flat. The official in... |
156206 /m/014hfk Clouds of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers 1926-06 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} After the events of Whose Body?, Lord Peter Wimsey goes on an extended holiday in Corsica. Returning to Paris, he receives the news that his sister Mary's fiancé, Captain Denis Cathcart... |
156207 /m/014hfx Unnatural Death Dorothy L. Sayers 1927 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Overhearing a conversation in a restaurant between Wimsey and his friend Parker, a doctor tells the two of a death that affected his career. A terminal cancer patient, old and wealthy, died ... |
156208 /m/014hg7 The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Dorothy L. Sayers 1928 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Ninety-year old General Fentiman has been estranged for years from his sister, Lady Dormer. On the afternoon of 10 November, he is called to her deathbed for a reconci... |
156209 /m/014hgl Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers 1931 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Mystery author Harriet Vane has been accused of the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes. Boyes was a novelist and essayist who wrote in support of atheism, anarchy, and free love. Profes... |
156211 /m/014hhf Five Red Herrings Dorothy L. Sayers 1931 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The story is set in Galloway, a part of Scotland popular with artists because of its landscapes. Sandy Campbell is a talented painter, but also a notoriously quarrelsome drunkard. When he ... |
156212 /m/014hhs Have His Carcase Dorothy L. Sayers 1932 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0174gw": "Locked room mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} During a hiking holiday after her acquittal on murder charges in Strong Poison, Harriet Vane discovers the body of a man, with his throat cut and the blo... |
156213 /m/014hj3 The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers 1934 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Stranded in the Fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve after a car accident, Wimsey helps ring a nine-hour peal of bells overnight after Will Thoday, one of the ringers, is... |
156215 /m/014hjg Busman's Honeymoon Dorothy L. Sayers 1937 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction"} After an engagement of some months following the events at the end of Gaudy Night, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry. They plan to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Harriet's ... |
156216 /m/014hjt Thrones, Dominations Jill Paton Walsh 1998 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} It is 1936. Lord and Lady Peter Wimsey, returned from a European honeymoon, are settling into their new home in London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the ... |
156314 /m/014j0g Light in August William Faulkner 1932 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The narrative structure consists of three connected plot-strands. The first strand tells the story of Lena Grove, a young pregnant woman from Doane's Mill, Alabama, who is trying to find Lucas Burch, the father of her unborn child. He has b... |
156489 /m/014jst Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003-06-21 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Harry Potter is spending another summer with his dreadful Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. when a pair of Dementors stage an unexpected attack on Harr... |
157212 /m/014njs Consciousness Explained Daniel Dennett 1991 {"/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/06mq7": "Science"} The book puts forward a "multiple drafts" model of consciousness, suggesting that there is no single central place (a "Cartesian Theater") where conscious experience occurs; instead there are "various events... |
157337 /m/014p6t The Clouds Aristophanes ;Short summary Faced with legal action for non-payment of debts, Strepsiades, an elderly Athenian, enrolls his son in the "thinkeria" (the "Phrontisterion") so that he might learn the rhetorical skills necessary to defeat their creditors in court. The son thereby learns cynic... |
157471 /m/014p_f The Knights Aristophanes The Knights is a satire on political and social life in 5th-century Athens, the characters are drawn from real life and Cleon is clearly intended to be the villain. However it is also an allegory, the characters are figures of fantasy and the villain in this context is Paphl... |
157837 /m/014sfd Romance of the Three Kingdoms Luo Guanzhong {"/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} One of the greatest achievements of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the extreme complexity of its stories and characters. The novel contains numerous secondary stories. The following consists of a ... |
158297 /m/014w5_ The Dragon in the Sea Frank Herbert 1956 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Set in a near-future earth, the West and the East have been at war for more than a decade, and resources are running thin. The West is stealing oil from the East with specialized nu... |
158313 /m/014wc4 Destination: Void Frank Herbert 1966 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} In the future, humankind has tried to develop artificial intelligence, succeeding only once, and then disastrously. A transmission from the project site on an island in the Puget Sound, "rogue cons... |
158341 /m/014wm9 Whipping Star Frank Herbert 1970 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species: Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban (among others) and has helped to form th... |
158354 /m/014wnv The Dosadi Experiment Frank Herbert 1977 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is set in a distant future when humans are part of an interstellar civilization called the ConSentiency composed of many species. One, the Taprisiots, provide i... |
158680 /m/014yc6 The Transparent Society David Brin 1998-05-17 {"/m/0h5k": "Anthropology", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction", "/m/06ms6": "Sociology"} Brin argues that a core level of privacy - protecting our most intimate interactions - may be preserved, despite the rapid proliferation of cameras that become ever-smaller, ch... |
158714 /m/014yjg The Poisoned Chocolates Case Anthony Berkeley Cox {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction"} After arriving at his London club at 10:30 am precisely,which he has been doing every morning for many years, Sir Eustace Pennefather, a known womanizer whose divorce from his current wife is p... |
158878 /m/014z8d Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles Led by Antigone, Oedipus enters the village of Colonus and sits down on a stone. They are approached by a villager, who demands that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or Erinyes. Oedipus recognizes this as a sign, for when he received the prophecy ... |
158943 /m/02y_3bn Vurt Jeff Noon 1993 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Vurt tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister/lover Desdemona. The novel is set in an alternate version of ... |
159063 /m/014_8r Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Eric Schlosser 2001-01-17 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} Schlosser opens the book with the ironic delivery of a pizza to the top secret military base, Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. He describes various high-tech capabilities of the base and its ex... |
159929 /m/0153hd The Dice Man George Cockcroft 1971 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book tells the story of a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart who, feeling bored and unfulfilled in life, starts making decisions about what to do based on a roll of a dice. Along the way, there is sex, rape, murder, "di... |
159934 /m/0153j5 The Search for the Dice Man George Cockcroft 1993-06-07 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book is set 20 years after the end of The Dice Man, and Luke's dicechild, Larry Rhinehart, has grown up to become a hotshot investor on the stock market. He has totally rejected his father's reverence for chance: he sees... |
159941 /m/0153k6 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is divided into eight parts. Its epigraph is Vengeance is mine, I will repay, from Romans 12:19, which in turn is quoting from Deuteronomy 32:35. The novel begins with one of its most quoted lines: The novel opens with a scene introducing ... |
159942 /m/0153kq Adventures of Wim George Cockcroft {"/m/02yq81": "Comic novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy"} The book takes Luke's style to its logical conclusion, as the entire book is made up of sections taken from other, fictional books. The preface to the book claims that it was writ... |
160046 /m/01548m High Fidelity Nick Hornby 1995 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Rob Fleming is a London record store owner in his mid-thirties whose girlfriend, Laura, has just left him. At the record shop — named Championship Vinyl — Rob and his employees Dick and Barry spend their free moments discussin... |
160106 /m/0154kx The Red House Mystery A. A. Milne 1922-04-06 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, a... |
160117 /m/0154ns Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In Holland, poor-but-industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel, yearn to participate in December's great ice-skating race on the canal. They have lit... |
160428 /m/015642 Dreamcatcher Stephen King 2001-03-20 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Dreamcatcher is set near the fictional town of Derry, Maine. It is the story of four lifelong friends: Gary Ambrose "Jonesy" Jones, Pete Moore, Joe "Beaver" C... |
160764 /m/01588x Long Voyage Back {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} : "In a nuclear war, the USSR will win. This is because the average Russian doesn't have a gun, so they can't all shoot each other and the army for food" The story concerns a hypothetical World War III between the USSR and the United States, and graph... |
160906 /m/015948 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The plot of Foucault's Pendulum revolves around three friends, as relevant to the rule of three, named Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon, who work for a vanity publisher in Milan. After reading one too many manuscripts about occult... |
161270 /m/015c5q Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Ian Fleming 1964-10-22 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Commander Caractacus Pott is an inventor who buys and renovates an old car after gaining money from inventing and selling whistle-like sweets to Lord Skrumsh... |
161301 /m/015cf8 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1839 {"/m/0276pxr": "Social novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in an unnamed town (although when originally published in Bentley's Miscellany in 1... |
161446 /m/015d6d East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952-09 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is primarily set in the Salinas Valley, California, between the beginning of the 20th century and the end of World War I, though some chapters are in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the story goes as far back as the American Civil ... |
161502 /m/015dlb The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 {"/m/07m5w1": "Sea story", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella"} The Old Man and the Sea is the story of a battle between an old, experienced Cuban fisherman and a large marlin. The novel opens with the explanat... |
161697 /m/015fn8 The Children of Men P. D. James 1992 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction"} The narrative voice for the novel alternates between the third person and the first person, the latter in the form of a diary kept by Dr. Theodore "Theo" Faron... |
161884 /m/015gns The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré 1963-09 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} The West Berlin office of the British Secret Intelligence Service under the command of Station Head Alec Leamas, has been performing poorly. At the commencement of the novel, Karl Riemeck – his last and best double age... |
161903 /m/015gvh The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The struggles of four of John Singer's acquaintances make up the majority of the narrative. They are: Mick Kelly, a tomboyish young girl who loves music and dreams of buying a piano; Jake Blount, an alcoholic labor agitator; Bi... |
161916 /m/015gy_ The Great White Hope Howard Sackler The Great White Hope tells a fictional idealized life story of boxing champion Jack Johnson, here called Jack Jefferson. Acting as a lens focused on a racist society, The Great White Hope explores how segregation and prejudice created the demand for a "great white... |
162096 /m/015hxm The Postman David Brin 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0hc1z": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Despite the post-apocalyptic scenario, and several action sequences, the book is largely a... |
162189 /m/015jfx The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} The novel opens with a prologue in which Gaston Leroux claims ... |
162770 /m/015m8_ Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express in Constantinople. The train is unusually crowded for the time of year. Poirot secures a berth only with the help of his friend M. Bouc, a director of the Compagnie Internationale des W... |
163234 /m/015pln Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998-07-02 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets begins as Harry spends a miserable summer with his only remaining family, the Dursleys. During a dinner party hos... |
163494 /m/015q_m Equus Peter Shaffer Martin Dysart is a psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital. He begins with a monologue in which he outlines Alan Strang's case. He also divulges his feeling that his occupation is not all that he wishes it to be and his feelings of dissatisfaction and disappointment about his barr... |
163629 /m/015rm8 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of the late 1980s, American Psycho is about the daily life of wealthy young investment ba... |
163678 /m/015rxc Kalimantaan C. S. Godshalk 1998-04 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In 1839, an English adventurer arrived on the northwest coast of Borneo, commissioned to deliver a letter of gratitude to the Sultan of Brunei for having safely returned the crew of a British merchantman, lost... |
164304 /m/015w2c Creatures of Light and Darkness Roger Zelazny 1969 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The Universe was once ruled by the god Thoth, who administered the different forces in the Universe to keep things in balance. In time, he delegated this administration to his "Angels... |
165026 /m/015zpq The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/02_w8": "Feminist science fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The Handmaid's Tale is set in the near future in the Republic o... |
165167 /m/015_d4 My Left Foot Christy Brown {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography"} Brown begins his book by telling the reader about his early childhood. When he was four months old, Brown's mother was the first to notice that there was something wrong with his health. He could not hold his head upright or control his body mov... |
165356 /m/0160g0 Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde The play opens in the morning room of the Windermeres' residence in London. It is tea time and Lady Windermere—who is preparing for her coming of age birthday ball that evening—has a visit from a friend, Lord Darlington. She shows off her new fan: a present from her... |
165361 /m/0160h3 The Pearl Gregory McElwain 1947 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella"} Kino, a young, strong, poor pearl diver, lives in a small town, La Paz, with his wife Juana, and his baby son, Coyotito. When the baby, Coyotito, is stung by a scorpion, Kino must find a way to pay the town doctor so he wil... |
165372 /m/0160lc Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1857 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the imaginary cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. I... |
165667 /m/01628j Our Man in Havana Graham Greene 1958-12 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel, a black comedy, is set in Havana during the Fulgencio Batista regime. James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner retailer, is approached by Hawthorne, who offers him work for the Br... |
165769 /m/0162_v East Wind: West Wind Pearl S. Buck 1930 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Kwei-lan is put into an arranged marriage, but her husband is not what she expects. They do not live in her parents' courts (which was expected in China then). He is a medical doctor and does not seem to take interest in her until after she... |
166589 /m/01677h On Numbers and Games A game in the sense of Conway is a position in a contest between two players, Left and Right. Each player has a set of games called options to choose from in turn. Games are written {L|R} where L is the set of Left's options and R is the set of Right's options. At the start the... |
167672 /m/016dz6 P.S. Your Cat Is Dead James Kirkwood, Jr. Abandoned by his girlfriend on New Year's Eve, and still unaware that his beloved cat Tennessee (named after the playwright Tennessee Williams) has died in an animal clinic, hopeless New York actor Jimmy Zoole is feeling depressed and unstable when he happen... |
167963 /m/016gg_ Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson {"/m/09s1f": "Business", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03k9fj": "Adventure", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is divided into 6 parts and 34 cha... |
168026 /m/016gsz Seven Brothers Aleksis Kivi {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/017fp": "Biography", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} At first, the brothers are not a particularly peaceful lot and end up quarreling with the local constable, jury, vicar, churchwarden, and teachers—not to mention their neighbours in Toukola villag... |
168256 /m/016hw2 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 {"/m/02m4t": "Existentialism", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book is presented as a manuscript by its protagonist, a middle-aged man named Harry Haller, who leaves it to a chance acquaintan... |
168425 /m/016jxr Goldfinger Ian Fleming 1959-03-23 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} Fleming structured the novel in three sections—"Happenstance", "Coincidence" and" Enemy action"—which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him. ;Happenstance Whilst changing planes in Miami after cl... |
168590 /m/016kwb Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Ironweed is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of Francis Phelan, an alcoholic vagrant originally from Albany, New York, who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son while he may have been d... |
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