Nineteenth-century English literature was a star-studded affair, and Charlotte. Bronte is certainly one of the brightest. The short, plain-looking woman writer, who had not lived to the age of forty, deserved to become one...

Before the war, every Sunday Morisau would set out at first light, catch the train from Argenteuil with a bamboo fishing rod in his hand and a white tin can on his back, alight...

With the last blow, everything was destroyed, and he had won it all. It took me a week to finish The final cut and see the end of Urquhart. Regardless of the merits of...

Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov’s most popular work. Most of its length is the confession of Humbert on death row. It tells the story of a middle-aged man and an underage girl’s strange love. The...

American writer Joyce Carol Oates’s new work, Hazards of Time Travel, takes a time-traveling science fiction story as the framework, and develops the dystopian writing of Orwell and Atwood. It not only foresees the...

Kafka was a genius in writing absurd novels. What he wanted to express was to satirize the absurd society at that time by writing out of touch with reality and ideal, as well as...

The title of this book is long and boring. But you will come to like this way of telling a story. There is no nonsense and every sentence makes itself clear. At first you’ll...

This story was written by Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is best known for “The Great Gatsby,” a coming-of-age story about a young man from the West who becomes an upstart in New York after being tapped...