Summerhills
Reading a novel in which virtue is what stands out is a relief. It is not easy to write about goodness in an appealing way, but Dorothy Emily Stevenson (1892–1973) succeeds admirably through this story...
Literature - Realistic
The Vineyard of Black Grapes
The novel is set in Sicily in the 1920s. Casimiro Badalamenti, the protagonist, is a very ruthless young man concerned only with money and fame, to which he subordinates everything: his children’s mother,...
The Romantic
It is the first part of the trilogy The Sleepwalkers, a work that analyzes the crisis of European consciousness at the beginning of the 20th century.
At its core, Pasenow’s drama, like that of many...
To Kill a Mockingbird
The novel, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, is set in a small town in the southern United States, Maycomb (Alabama), during the 1930s, a place marked by the racial tensions and social inequalities of the time....
Oliver Twist
Oliver was in a workhouse since his parents were unknown. He runs away to London and falls in with Fagin, Bill Sikes and Nancy, all thieves. The benevolent Mr. Brownlow rescues him from their clutches but...
Albion
The Brooke family gathers for four days in their 18th-century English mansion to bid farewell to Philip, the patriarch around whom their lives have revolved. Frannie, the eldest daughter and heir, wants to...
Chip of the Flying U
It is a short novel. It takes place in Montana at the beginning of the 20th century. On the U Alada ranch, the owner of the business, called the Old Man, has been working for years with cowboys on his...
The Red Pony
It is a work set in the Salinas Valley, California. The protagonist is Jody Tiflin, a ten-year-old boy whose life has been typical for a ranch: school, chores, spending time with his dogs, wandering through...
The Tortoise and the Hare
A novel of high literary quality, published in 1954, about the marital crisis of Evelyn Gresham, a prestigious lawyer, and Imogen, his wife, younger than him, shortly after the end of the Second World War....
The Last One at the Wedding
Frank Szatowski is surprised when his daughter Maggie calls him for the first time in three years to invite him to her wedding. Maggie is going to marry the son of a wealthy magnate in a large mansion....