Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. Was originally published as a serial novel in monthly appearance in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany, between February 1837 and April 1839. At first, the author had intended to form part of a larger work, The Mudfog Papers. All...

Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a "detective adviser" of London of the late nineteenth century, noted for his intelligence and skillful use of observation and deductive reasoning to solve difficult cases. He stars in a series of 4 novels and...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by Oscar Wilde. Considered one of the classics of literature, is an intriguing and enjoyable book. The novel tells the story of a young man named Dorian Gray, painted by the artist Basil Hallward, who is greatly impressed by Dorian's physical beauty and begins...

The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is the most famous short story of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery. He wrote it while staying at a hotel in New York and was first published in the United States. It has been translated a hundred and eighty languages and...

The exploits of Robin Hood is told in a series of ballads that were transmitted orally for centuries and centuries. The ballad is the genre of English literature, medieval equivalent of the romance of our literature. They had various adventures of a hero. The ballads are anonymous and designed to be...

The Thousand and One Nights is a famous collection of Arabian tales of the medieval Middle East using the technique of framing narrative or mise en abyme. The core of these stories is formed by an old Persian book called Hazar Afsana (the Thousand Myths). The compiler and translator of these stories...

Steppenwolf (Der Steppenwolf, in German) is the title of one of the most celebrated novels of Hermann Hesse, which combines the autobiographical style with elements of fantasy, especially towards the end of the play. The book is largely a reflection of the profound spiritual crisis he suffered in the...

A Sangre Fria is a book written by Truman Capote. This is the most popular novel by this author and which shook the world in his time, thus gaining fame.

In 1959 a violent crime shook the quiet life of Holcomb, Kansas. American society of that time had no choice but to fit in despair, anguish,...

A clasic book from all times, written by Homer at Ancient Greece. Taken to the screen at several times, this masterpiece is essential in literature. Entertaining and interesting, La Iliada tells the events that happened during the war between Aqueos and Troyans. Meet Mythic Aquiles, the romance between...