Brothers Grimm Fairy Stories.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 223 | File Size: 2.5MB | The Brothers Grimm were Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, who both were German academics, linguists and cultural researchers. They collected old folk tales and published them under the tittle Grimm's Fairy Tales. More or less like H.C. Andersen's, their works became very popular before the modern fantasy and fairy tales emerged. Probably, the Grimms differed from Andersen in the sense on the darkness of their tales....

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H.C. Andersen - Short Stories.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 93 | File Size: 1 MB | Hans Christian Andersen was probably the biggest Danish, or even world, author on fairy tales, poets, and short stories for children. Before modern literature invented its own fairy tales and children stories, Andersen's (and also the Grimms') works were probably the only kid fantasies that went universal. Translated and adapted into many countries in more than a hundred languages. The stories reached their audience...

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Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.pdf (eBook)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.pdf eBook | Author: Roald Dahl | PDF Pages: 52 | File Size: 0.3 MB | Willy Wonka is the owner of the most famous and successful chocolate factory in the world. He runs a competition by giving five Golden Ticket and the lucky ones will get the chance to explore his magical chocolate factory.Charlie Bucket gets the last ticket, in a very fortunate way. Charlie is poor boy who lives in a small, beat-up house with his...

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Lewis Caroll - Alice In Wonderland.pdf (eBook)

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Caroll | PDF Pages: 51 | File Size: 1MB | Another work that actually doesn't require any further introduction. Especially after "Alice In Wonderland" brought to the big screen beautifully by Tim Burton. However, just in case any of you is not familiar yet with this particular Lewis Caroll's everlasting children fantasy masterpiece, then here's a little bit for you.Alice is very bored on the river bank, and ot of the...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes From Underground.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 85 | File Size: 1 MB | A Customer Review at Amazon.com (82 of 93 people found the following review helpful; 5 out of 5 stars): Dostoevsky has written an amazing portrait of a loner, whose introverted, sick thoughts spill out on the pages in demented brilliance. The novel is a product of European cynicism, nihilism, and inertia, all of which reached a certain height in the paralyzed upper circles of 19th century Russia...The main character,...

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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 112 | File Size: 1MB | A Customer Review at Amazon.com (429 of 487 people found the following review helpful. 5 out of 5 stars):As critic and best-selling author Neil Postman points out so well in the introduction to his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death", we have congratulated ourselves prematurely by figuring we made it past the totalitarian nightmare state depicted in George Orwell's gripping cautionary tale "1984". Perhaps, Postman...

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Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones Diary.pdf (eBook)

"Bridget Jones Diary" by Helen Fielding | PDF Pages: 82 | File Size: 1 MB | This is the diary of Bridget Jones, a character created by Helen Fielding. And in her diary, she tells readers about her daily personal life as a single thirty-something woman and how she deals with the daily activities as a working woman in London. The way Helen Fielding, as Bridget Jones off course, captures the day-in-day-out events is often often humorous, if not silly....

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George Orwell - Animal Farm.pdf (eBook)

"Animal Farm" by George Orwell | PDF Pages: 55 | File Size: 1 MB. | Orwell presented a Dystopian allegory very sharply in this particular novel and captured the going-ons in the Stalin Era before World War II broke out. Through his Animal Farm novel, he didn't not only address the revolution leaders' corruption but also how the utopia of a better world was destroyed by wickedness, ignorance, and greed.Read more...

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Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 823 | File Size: 3 MB | Editorial Review at Amazon.com: 'The first great English novel about the class war, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is spiked, witty, humorous, instructive and full of excitement, harmony and pathos.' Alan Sillitoe 'Some books seem to batter their way to immortality against all the odds, by sheer brute artistic strength, and high up in this curious and honourable company must be counted The Ragged Trousered...

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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Good Omens.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 226 | File Size: 1 MB | "The end is nigh!" No, "nigh" is not the right term. "The end is ALREADY HERE!" All the "key players" are already on earth, if not are always on earth, and now they are on the move to bring the one-and-only Apocalypse. The Four Horsemen are assembling (War, Famine, Pollution, and Death) and most important and long waited figure is on the brink of revealing his earth-destroying power. Who is that? It's none other...

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J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit .pdf (eBook)

"The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbits" by J.R.R. Tolkien | PDF Pages: 1.347 | File Size: 13MB |     Do you still need explanation and introduction for this one? Especially after this particular Tolkien's masterpiece was brought into live in The Lord of the Rings trilogy movies? If you do, then here's the shortest big line.This is actually (or at least meant by the author as) a single novel, but it published into three volumes, namely...

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Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 257 | File Size: 1.5 MB | In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee visualized many issues and perspectives that existed during the Great Depression. Although the novel takes a fictional town as its setting (Maycomb, Alabama), all that Lee captured and told in the story is nothing but the actual and factual situation in America during the Great Depression. Through main character, the six-year-old Scout Finch, is the narrator and she brings...

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Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 106 | File Size: 1MB | Description: In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.Read...

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George Orwell - 1984.pdf (eBook)

1984.pdf eBook | Author: George Orwell | PDF Pages: 112 | File Size: 1MB | In his novel, 1984, George Orwell took totalitarian as the main the theme, the possibility of it and its threats toward the live of a society. In the totalitarian society of 1984, there's no truth except what the "Big Brother" said. The term freedom only has one meaning, which is total surrender to the Party, and love is a concept so unfamiliar, except off course the love...

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T. Jefferson Parker - Storm Runners.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 385 | File Size: 2MB | T. Jefferson Parker is considered as a member among "the first rank of American crime novelists" (as stated by Washington Post Book World) and praised for "some of the finest writing you'll ever read" (by Chicago Sun-Times). His works are excellently built, involving complicated emotional, and full of breath-taking action. Storm Runners is no difference and it shows the reason why Parker's novels are irresistible.Plot:Losing...

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Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 149 | File Size: 1.5MB | This novel is the debut of the Scottish author, Irvine Welsh, and he surly doesn't try to hide that he's Scottish. The accent used in the novel, unless you're at least British, is so unfamiliar, and also the culture, or sub-culture to be precise.Read more...

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