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....
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Death on Blackheath
In this novel, the protagonist is Thomas Pitt, a character created by the author together with his wife Charlotte. The story is set at the end of the nineteenth century, and the First World War can already...
Hidden depths
It is a novel adapted for television starring Inspector Vera Stanhope, a character created by the author. Julie Armstrong discovers the lifeless body of her son Luke, surrounded by flowers in the bathtub....
Time Out of Joint
One of Dick’s (1928–1982) most popular novels , which inspired the film The Truman Show.
The protagonist, Ragle Gumm, has a peculiar way of making a living: every day he takes part in a local...
Eye in the Sky
The fact that Dick is regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novelists does not, in my view, justify classifying his work simply as science fiction. It is true that he makes use of the genre’s...
The Penultimate Truth
Written in 1964, it sets the Third World War in 1982. It began as a two-year conflict over the conquest of Mars; all the minorities of Earth had been transferred there, and they die in the battle. The war...
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...
A Life of Chekhov
The publication of this book in 1946, four years after the author’s death, was made possible thanks to her daughters’ efforts to preserve her manuscripts. The depth of the book is striking. It draws...
Trafalgar. A Tale
Trafalgar (1805) was a decisive naval battle that marked the collapse of Spain’s maritime power. It is the first novel in the Episodios Nacionales. In it, the author does not tell history as a simple war...
Oil!
American novel, set in Southern California in the first quarter of the 20th century, when oil exploration was expanding. Oil wells are appearing, rapidly transforming the landscape of almost worthless...