The greatest book about why you shouldn’t read books, weirdly written at a time when there weren’t that many books to read.
Fil d'Ariane
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Author:de Cervantes, Miguel
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- Publisher: Association for the Blind of Western Australia,
Author:Hesse, Herman
Summary:In ancient India a young man begins a spiritual journey that will take him into the company of the Buddha, the arms of a gorgeous courtesan and to the river that will ultimately teach him enlighten
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Author:Joyce, James
Summary:The 15 unforgettable short stories that form this collection paint the portrait of a city through the eyes of its middle class residents.
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Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Summary:This collection of eleven short stories by one of our greatest American writers includes “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “May Day.”
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Author:Wilde, Oscar
Summary:In Wilde’s masterful farce, two aristocratic young Londoners create a great deal of confusion when they independently fabricate intricate double lives in order to escape oppressive social obligatio
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Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary:Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover.
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Author:Dumas, Alexandre
Summary:The dramatic conclusion to the saga of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers — and the revelation of the mysterious man in the iron mask.
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Author:Summary:Orphan Anne Shirley, with her signature red braids and rich imagination, is sent by mistake to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy to help with farm work.
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Author:Darwin, Charles
Summary:Join an eccentric young naturalist on a tropical voyage to exotic destinations where he encounters fascinating and sometimes dangerous creatures and meets local residents who free him from the rigi
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Author:Dumas, Alexandre
Summary:Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers.
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Author:Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Summary:Dostoevsky’s last work, about a family torn apart by greed and jealousy. Three, possibly four, brothers gamble, steal, commit patricide and talk to the devil. It’s like daytime T.V.
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Author:Conrad, Joseph
Summary:Darker, weirder and shorter than its flashy younger brother Apocalypse Now, this modernist classic follows a riverboat captain and a reluctant assassin up the Congo River.
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- Publisher: Association for the Blind of W.A.,
Author:Douglass, Frederick
Summary:Frederick Douglass’s memoir depicts his life as a slave, from his birth into southern slavery to his inspiring fight to learn how to read, escape as a free man and become a leader of the abolitioni
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Author:Alcott, Louisa May
Summary:In the sequel to Little Men, we visit the Plumefield students 10 years later, watching them encounter all the pitfalls of young adulthood.
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Author:Tolstoy, Leo
Summary:This epic saga of Russian life in the days of the Napoleonic wars centers on the loves and losses of five aristocratic families.
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