The action of A Confederacy of Dunces blends such disparate elements as ribald farce, sophisticated intellectual and social satire, and realistic examination of the speech and customs of ethnic New Orleans. Leer más →
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‘The talented Mr. Ripley’ by Patricia Highsmith
Tom Ripley is a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a «sissy» by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American diletante. Leer más →
‘The Man Who Was Thursday’ by G. K. Chesterton
Roughly speaking, it’s about anarchists…And roughly speaking, it’s a mystery story. It can be guaranteed that you will never, never guess the solution until you get to the end—it is even feared that you may not guess it then. You may never guess what The man who was Thursday is about. Leer más →
‘The Fifth Child’ by Doris Lessing
When David Lovatt meets Harriet at an office party, they both immediately fall in love. They both share the same conservative outlooks, which they perceive to be a rarity in the London of the 1960s. Leer más →
‘The End of Faith’ by Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is a book by Sam Harris concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational thought, and the problems of tolerance towards religious fundamentalism Leer más →
‘Mildred Pierce’ by James M. Cain
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Leer más →
‘Flowers for Algernon» by Daniel Keyes
The eponymous Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human test subject for the surgery, and it touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled. Leer más →
‘The Old Man And The Sea’ by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is the story of a battle between an old, experienced fisherman, Santiago, and a large marlin. Leer más →
‘The Outsiders» by S. E. Hinton
The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. Leer más →
‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. Leer más →