The Trial is one of Kafka’s most brilliant works. It tells the unsettling story of Josef K., a man who is arrested but left to wonder what crime he has committed, and provides a disturbing and powerful look into the nature of state and society. Filled with psychological tension and disconcerting parallels with the modernContinue reading “The Trial by Franz Kafka”
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he didContinue reading “Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut”
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal ofContinue reading “Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury”
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasureContinue reading “The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho”
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