One last chance. What would you say? When the residents of a small town on Lake Michigan start receiving phone calls from the afterlife, they all become the subject of widespread attention. Is …
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his…
I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other. Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in match-making those around her, with no apparent care…
Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood a…
It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.
With its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwi…
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize f…
At first, no one is concerned about what seem to be meteors or falling stars dropping from the sky - until they are revealed to be a fleet of alien spaceships carrying Martians determined to overta…
The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being…