In late middle age, the narrator, Emily Bethel, learns that she is unlikely to live for more than another two years. Her family and her doctor advise her to adopt a life without...

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold...

The philosophy of mind describes the pattern of the Idea as manifesting itself in dialectical reasoning.

Brilliant! A book filled with unimportant characters, not about anything in particular, in which nothing much happens. Well not exactly, this is a satire on being ordinary.

The story starts in London right after World War I. The characters have to deal with the lack of values and stability brought by the terrible conflict. Everybody is lost but at...

The Imitation is perhaps the most widely read Christian devotional work next to the Bible, and is regarded as a devotional and religious classic. Its popularity was immediate, and...

A minor text, almost a testament, where the theme of eternal pain transpires. The author seems to be seeking new freedom and the desire for independence is evident word after...

The Great American Novel engages the techniques of what we would now call metafiction to parody worn out formulas and content and, ironically, to create a new type of novel that...

An amazing book which will create the most tremendous controversy the world of Science has known for hundreds of years. Ben Hecht says in the Chicago Daily News: "For every...

A gay, tender love-story about 113 orphans and a dour young Scotch surgeon who had forgotten how to smile, and of Sallie McBride, of "Daddy-Long-Legs" fame, who has a...