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 →
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‘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 →
Songs Of Distant Earth by Arthur Clarke
Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost…. Leer más →
‘Breakfast of champions’ by Kurt Vonnegut
The aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. Leer más →
‘The curious incident of the dog in the night-time’ by Mark Haddon
This story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years. Leer más →