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“Call me Ishmael” says Moby Dick20
Mary Shelley (then Godwin) and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With...
Saïd is a fisherman who has carefully saved up a small fortune to buy a coffeehouse. He imagines this to be the start of h...
In 1898 Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the earth. His voyage in his thirty-six foot sailboat <...
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was the model of what we call a philosopher-king. Though his rule was tro...
Georges Duroy returns to Paris from military service in Algeria penniless. After meeting up with an old friend, he finds j...
Dmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grush...
Edmond Dantès is a young man about to be made captain of a cargo vessel and marry his sweetheart. But he is arrested at hi...
“George Eliot” was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Her long...
John, a man who has spent the last thirty years in Tibet recovering from a head injury and totally unaware of his surround...
Thibault, a French shoemaker in his mid twenties, has his craft and the possibility of marriage with Agnelette, but he’s u...
The unnamed narrator of The Nature of a Crime
Returning from Liverpool, Mr. Earnshaw brings with him a dirty, ragged, black-haired child called Heathcliff, and sets int...
Everyone’s familiar with Lewis Carroll’s famous children’s classic and the huge influence it’s had on modern culture. The ...
Jonathan Mansel, leader of the Blind Corner expedition, has been robbed; but they’ve taken none of the money in his safe—j...
