Raising Hare
In Raising Hare, Chloe Dalton recounts an unexpected experience that began in February 2021, during lockdown in the English countryside. When she found a newborn hare—a leveret—in the middle of a country...
Literature - Realistic
The Man Who Read Books
Rachid Benzine (Kenitra, Morocco, 1971) lives in France and is a political scientist as well as the author of novels and plays.
In this brief yet powerful work, the young reporter Julien Desmanges...
Katrina
Katrina, a beautiful young woman raised in a prosperous farming family, decides to follow her heart and marry Johan, a sailor she barely knows. Drawn by the promise of a better life, she leaves her home to...
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...
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...