The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has...
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Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling nov...
"My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know." In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refu...
A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of th...
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts the author's ...
Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of d...
'What's your road, man - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road? It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow'. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins ...
An American coming-of-age tale during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England duri...
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, "The Great Gatsby" is F.Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable o...
The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his mischievous fairy Tinker Bell entice Wendy and her brothers to fly away ...
Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the n...
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real...











