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 →
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‘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 →
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. Leer más →
’84, Charing Cross Road’ by Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co, antiquarian booksellers located at the eponymous address in London, England. Leer más →