“The Lost Letter” is a short story by Gogol published in his 1831 collection “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”. In it, an exuberant narrator, the old sexton Foma,...
‘Memoirs of a Madman’ is a fascinating short following Poprishchin, a minor civil servant, as he descends into insanity. Unique in Golgol’s collection, it is the only story...
Woman on woman. Man on man. Bisexuality. Flexible. Queer. Some have never questioned their homosexuality. Others are in a straight marriage with kids when suddenly their best...
It is often the lot of the creative individual to not be appreciated during their lifetime. While alive, Walt Whitman endured countless campaigns to ban his book of poems, 'Leaves...
‘Ravenna’ is one of Wilde’s earliest poems, written while he was a student at Oxford in the 1870s. He submitted it as an entry for the Newdigate Prize, in which the subject...
‘Fruits and Vegetables’ is an English language learning book for children. A gem from the ‘Hello English’ series, this picture book brings colourful fruits and veggies to...
When Leslie comes to meet her father, Caspar Brooke, for the first time, she is keen to learn why her mother left him. While living with him, Leslie sets herself the task of...
A child with a love of wizards and an ageing rock star share their fate with a disparate collection of visitors when their paths collide in a remote refugee camp.Years later they...
Poetry is a window to the soul of the writer.In this collection of the poems of W. B. Yeats, the reader gets an insight into how Yeats' personality, priorities and style evolved...
‘Erewhon Revisited’ the sequel to ‘Erewhon’, Samuel Butler’s acclaimed first novel, finds adventurer Higgs returning to the mysterious, distant land of Erewhon. There he...