#GeneralLiteraryFiction Over 75 selections from Shakespeare's immortal plays, these exceptional monologues are presented here with short contextual commentaries and translations for archaic words. Perfect for actors, curious readers, and long-time Shakespeare enthusiasts who'd like a curated collection of the Bard's highlights. For anyone who finds the prospect of reading the whole plays daunting, this is a good introduction that'll help you appreciate why Shakespeare's reput

#GeneralLiteraryFiction #ActionAdventureBooks #CrimeThrillerMysteryBooks #FunnyandHumorous #RomanceBooksRomanticNovels #ScienceFictionbooks The crisis spreads and Francesco, on the morning of Friday the 13th, loses his home, his girlfriend, and his job. Although not exactly in that order. Francesco has never been superstitious, he has never believed in fate, in destiny in the strict sense, but in accidents, in the terrible inevitability of chaos, in the second law of thermody

#ClassicBooks #ActionAdventureBooks #GeneralLiteraryFiction On a yawl moored in the Thames, Marlow tells his shipmates how he once piloted a battered steamboat up the Congo in search of Kurtz, a brilliant ivory agent gone mysteriously silent in the interior. What he finds is not a man but a ruin: a station rotted by greed, a riverbank choked with violence, and at the end of it all a voice that has seen the worst of what an empire makes of itself. Conrad's short, hypnotic nove

#ClassicBooks #GeneralLiteraryFiction #RomanceBooksRomanticNovels Anna Karenina, beautiful and confined to a passionless marriage in Tsarist Russia, falls helplessly in love with the dashing Count Vronsky. Her passion sets her on a collision course with society, family and conscience that will lead from glittering St Petersburg ballrooms to a final, devastating choice on a snowy railway platform. In parallel, the earnest Konstantin Levin pursues an entirely different journey

#TravelBooksGuides #GeneralLiteraryFiction A look back at the times of an impecunious young Londoner starting out in life in the middle of the last century, his discovery of the pleasures of travel, and how he learns to see the world on the firm’s expense account, in the days before internet, mobile phones, instant communication and low cost travel. Excerpt: As I write, there is not a corner of the world devoid of tourists of some kind, the vast majority of them ordinary peop

#ClassicBooks #GeneralLiteraryFiction #HorrorandSupernatural #ScienceFictionbooks The respectable Dr Henry Jekyll has discovered a way to separate the good and evil halves of his nature. But when his darker self, the sinister Mr Edward Hyde, begins to grow in strength and independence, Jekyll finds himself trapped in a nightmare of his own making. Robert Louis Stevenson's chilling novella is a brilliantly compact exploration of duality, repression, and the consequences of try

#ClassicBooks #GeneralLiteraryFiction #HorrorandSupernatural Captivated by his own portrait, the beautiful young Dorian Gray makes a fevered wish: let the painting age and bear the marks of his sins, while he remains forever young and unblemished. The wish is granted. As Dorian sinks into ever darker pleasures under the influence of the witty, decadent Lord Henry Wotton, the portrait — locked away in an attic — grows monstrous in his stead. Oscar Wilde's only novel is a glitt

#ClassicBooks #GeneralLiteraryFiction #HistoricalFictionnovels #RomanceBooksRomanticNovels When Margaret Hale's family leaves the green parsonage of southern England for the smoke-stained mill town of Milton in the industrial north, she enters a harder, faster world of mill owners, strikes and rough northern speech. Outraged by what she sees, she clashes repeatedly with the proud, intelligent factory master John Thornton. From these collisions a more complicated feeling slowl

#ClassicBooks #GeneralLiteraryFiction #HistoricalFictionnovels The four March sisters — practical Meg, headstrong Jo, gentle Beth, and artistic Amy — navigate the joys and hardships of growing up during the American Civil War while their father serves as an army chaplain. Through poverty, illness, heartbreak, and triumph, the bonds between them are tested but never broken. Louisa May Alcott drew upon her own family experiences to create this warm and honest portrait of young