Heart of a Dog is one of the best examples of Bulgakov's criticisms of life in the Soviet Union. Written when Bulgakov was 33 years old, it was first introduced to the public in March 1925 in a Moscow apartment with a gathering of approximately 50...

First published in 1680, “The Disappointment” is a poem about an unfortunate sexual encounter between Lisander and Cloris, a shepherd and shepherdess in the countryside. When Lisander is unable to maintain an erection, Cloris runs away in...

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is a novel by Wilkie Collins. It was originally published in 1879 and since then there have been other editions published by Borgo Press in 2002 in London, England. Set in Venice, Italy, The Haunted...

Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley’s very first novel, published by Chatto & Windus in 1921. The book is partly autobiographic. Its central character is inspired from the author himself, while its events sum, to a certain extent, his own...

Patrick Ness's 2011 fantasy novel A Monster Calls is about a thirteen-year-old boy who learns to overcome his denial about his mother's terminal cancer. Haunted by a nightmare in which his dying mother slips from his grasp as she falls off a...

Fifteen Dogs is the second novel in André Alexis' planned five-book series, The Quincunx Cycle—each work of which is centered around the philosophical themes of faith, love, place, power, and hatred. Specifically, Fifteen Dogs tells the story of a...

We the Animals is author Justin Torres' debut novel. Released in 2011, the novel tells the story of three brothers of mixed race as they live their rough lives rural upstate New York throughout the 1980s. Although it primarily focuses on one of...

Published in 2010, Sharon M. Draper’s novel Out of My Mind stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for two years. Written from the perspective of Melody Brooks, an eleven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, Out of My Mind gives a window onto...

Franz Kafka's 1925 novel The Trial is about Josef K., a banker who is prosecuted by a court he has never heard of for a crime that is never revealed. Although K. attempts to fight the illogical accusation, the perplexing legal system steadily...

The Four Feathers is the sixth novel of English author A.E.W. Mason and arguably his most successful composition. This masterpiece was published in 1902 by Macmillan as a historical fiction, thriller, and adventure book. The fact that its author...

New Grub Street is a realistic novel written by English novelist George Gissing, and published in three volumes by Smith, Elder & Co in 1891. The book is a semi-autobiographic work inspired by the authors’ own experiences in London’s literary...

Bao Ninh is a Vietnamese writer born on October 18, 1952, in Hanoi. He served as a soldier in the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade during the Vietnam War, and he came back home as one of only ten survivors in his unit of five hundred. The war had an...

The Boat is a collection of short stories heavily influenced by the author’s background and childhood experiences. Born in Vietnam, Nam Le fled to Australia with his parents while still a baby. The family was one of the many families of “boat...

A Little Life was written by Hanya Yanagihara and was published in March 2015 by Doubleday. A Little Life is Yanagihara's second novel, and due to the difficult subject matter, neither the author nor editor predicted that the novel would be...

The Color of Magic, the first of Sir Terry Pratchett's extensive comedic fantasy series Discworld, marked a humble beginning for what would become a massively successful endeavor. Set in the fictional realm of the Discworld, a flat circle carried...

“The Fly” was published in the The Nation and Athenaeum in 1922. At the time, Mansfield was grieving over the loss of her brother, who died in a military training accident shortly before he was to be deployed to France at the start of World War I....