The Wright Brothers
At the beginning of the 20th century, two brothers, Wilbur and Orville, while running a bicycle store in Ohio, U.S.A., built a device capable of powered flight, with crew members. At the beginning of the...
Fiction
A lost lady
With superb style, Willa Cather takes us to the desolate landscape of a sullen West to tell us the story of a woman who, tempted by circumstances, goes from being a respectable lady to a woman singled out...
O Pioneers!
Set in a small Nebraska town in the late 19th century, the book relates a story of immigration and survival. The central figure is Alexandra, a courageous young woman who is in charge of the family. With...
King Lear
"King Lear" is one of the greatest and important tragedies by the Bard of Avon. King Lear, tormented by old age and greed, decides to divide his kingdom into three amongst his daughters. He does this...
The sleepdaughter
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was an Anglo-Irish writer born into an aristocratic family and married to the painter Lucien Freud. An autobiographical novel, as well as the chronicle of a war of nerves, it...
War and Peace
Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he...
Murder Backstairs
Third novel starring the detective Bonnie Dundee created by the American writer Anne Austin (1895-1975). They are sentimental intrigues, which arise around the news of society in the world between the wars...
Roadside crosses
The novel takes place over five days. Agent Dance of the California Bureau of Investigation and Deputy O'Neil solve the case with the help of Dance's expert body language interpretation. The appearance of a...