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L'Ecole Des Femmes Molière · 1950 · ★ 4.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Chrysalde. Vous venez, dites-vous, pour lui donner la main ? Arnolphe. Oui, je veux terminer la chose dans demain. Chrysalde. Nous sommes ici seuls ; et l'on peut, ce me semble, sans craindre d'etre ouis, y discourir ensemble : voulez-vous qu'en ami je vous ouvre mon coeur ? Votre dessein pour vous me fait trembler de peur ; et de quelque facon que vous tourniez l'affaire, prendre femme est a… Shares: Literary Criticism, Classic Literature

After James Michael Helm · 2016 · ★ 2.9 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A neuroscientist walks out of her life and isolates herself in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company and its creativity drug gone wrong. A recently orphaned graduate school dropout is hired as a “literary detective” to decode the work of a mysterious Internet poet who writes about disappearances and murders with an inexplicably precise knowledge of private details.… Shares: Dystopias, Science Fiction

The Flirt Booth Tarkington · 1913 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Valentine Corliss walked up Corliss Street the hottest afternoon of that hot August, a year ago, wearing a suit of white serge which attracted a little attention from those observers who were able to observe anything except the heat. The coat was shaped delicately; it outlined the wearer, and, fitting him as women's clothes fit women, suggested an effeminacy not an attribute of the tall Corliss.… Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism, Classic Literature

1984 George Orwell · 2003 · ★ 4.3 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching. Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty… Shares: Totalitarianism, Dystopias

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper · 1897 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fennimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843. The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief. Shares: Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

The Napoleon of Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1904 · ★ 3.8 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London. Shares: Political Fiction, Classic Literature, Science Fiction

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag,… Shares: Political Fiction, Science Fiction

Brave New World Aldous Huxley · 1932 · ★ 4.0 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the… Shares: Totalitarianism, Dystopias, Science Fiction

Meditaciones del Quijote José Ortega y Gasset · 1914 · ★ 2.0 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 247 pages ; 18 cm Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism

Reading autobiography Sidonie Smith · 2001 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Life Writing in the Long Run gathers twenty-one essays by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson written in collaboration or solo and published over the last quarter-century. It includes the introductions to their five edited collections; essays focused on such autobiographical genres as autoethnography, Bildungsroman, diary, digital life writing, genealogy, graphic memoir, human… Shares: Literature - Classics, Biography & Memoir

Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding Francis Beaumont · 1634 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism

Alcatraz Frederick Faust · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Max Brand Megapack assembles 20 classic Max Brand tales—novels and short stories—set primarily in the American West. For pure Old West adventure, it doesn't get better than this -- more than 3,300 pages of action-packed reading! Included are: HARRIGAN (1918) THE GHOST (1919) HOLE-IN-THE-WALL BARRETT (1919) TRAILIN’! (1919) THE UNTAMED (1920) OUT OF THE DARK (1920) RIDERS OF THE SILENCES… Shares: Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Wilhelmine Moritz August von Thümmel · 1777 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Demanding The Wilhelmine period or Wilhelmian era () comprises the period of German history between 1888 and 1918, embracing the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the German Empire from the death of Kaiser Friedrich III until the end of World War I and Wilhelms abdication during the November Revolution. Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism

A Q zheng zhuan Lu Xun · 1926 · ★ 4.6 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Chinese and Thai on opposite pages. Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism, Biography & Memoir

The Iron Heel Jack London · 1907 · ★ 3.8 · 373p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less… Shares: Political Fiction, Classic Literature, Science Fiction

The Unbearable Bassington Saki · 1912 · ★ 3.8 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging FRANCESCA BASSINGTON sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to the desires of the moment, is happily reminiscent of a satisfactory luncheon and blessedly expectant of an elaborate dinner to come. Shares: Literature - Classics, Classic Literature

The Scarlet Plague Jack London · 1910 · ★ 3.8 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Challenging It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 1912. Shares: Dystopias, Classic Literature, Science Fiction

Morgante Luigi Pulci · 1955 · 1179p · ≈ 39h · Challenging A classic picaresque epic detailing the thrilling exploits of Orlando, Morgante is a tale of war and of the calamities that befall the romantic hero, his fellow knights, and their sovereign, Charlemagne. After encountering the fierce Morgante, Orlando converts the giant, who then becomes his squire and trusted companion. This annotated English translation will lead to a new appreciation of Luigi… Shares: Literature - Classics, Literary Criticism

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