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620 /m/0hhy Animal Farm George Orwell 1945-08-17 {"/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans ... |
843 /m/0k36 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Alex, a teenager living in near-future England, leads his gang on nightly orgies of op... |
986 /m/0ldx The Plague Albert Camus 1947 {"/m/02m4t": "Existentialism", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The text of The Plague is divided into five parts. In the town of Oran, thousands of rats, initially unnoticed by the populace, begin to die in the streets. A hysteria de... |
1756 /m/0sww An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. In the first section o... |
2080 /m/0wkt A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge {"/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel posits that space around the Milky Way is divided into concentric layers called Zones, each being constrained ... |
2152 /m/0x5g All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1929-01-29 {"/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef"} The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a German soldier who—urged on by his school teacher—joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Weste... |
2890 /m/011zx A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Ged is a young boy on Gont, one of the larger islands in the north of the archipelago of Earthsea. His mother i... |
2950 /m/012dq Anyone Can Whistle Arthur Laurents The story is set in an imaginary American town that has gone bankrupt. The only place in town doing good business is the local sanitarium, known as “The Cookie Jar,” whose inmates look much healthier than the disgruntled townspeople. ("I'm Like the Bluebird") All the ... |
4081 /m/01b4w Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night K. W. Jeter 1996-10-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days. He finds himself drawn into a mission on behalf of the replicants he was... |
4082 /m/01b56 Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human K. W. Jeter 1995-10-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Beginning several months after the events in Blade Runner, Deckard has retired to an isolated shack outside the city, taking the replicant Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport co... |
4331 /m/01d3j Book of Joshua (Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest; and at chapter ... |
4332 /m/01d40 Book of Ezra For the Bible text, see Bible Gateway (opens at NIV version) or see King James Version The Book of Ezra consists of ten chapters: chapters 1-6, covering the period from the Decree of Cyrus to the dedication of the Second Temple, are told in the third person; chapters 7-10, dealing with th... |
4376 /m/01dlg Book of Numbers God orders Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, to number those able to bear arms—of all the men "from twenty years old and upward," and to appoint princes over each tribe. 603,550 Israelites are found to be fit for military service. In chapter 26, a generation later and after appr... |
4381 /m/01dnz Book of Ruth During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem—Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion—emigrate to the nearby country of Moab. Elimelech dies, and the sons marry two Moabite women: Mahlon marries Ruth and Chilion marries Orpa... |
4382 /m/01dpg Book of Esther Ahasuerus, ruler of a massive Persian empire, holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of the capital city Shushan. Ahasuerus orders the queen Vashti to display her beauty before the guests. She refuses. Worried all women will lear... |
4386 /m/01dqt Book of Job {"/m/02mdj1": "Religious text"} The book of Job tells the story of an extremely righteous man named Job, who is very prosperous and has seven sons and three daughters. Constantly fearing that his sons may have sinned and "cursed God in their hearts", he habitually offers burnt offerings as ... |
4449 /m/01f8p Book of Hosea First, Hosea was directed by God to marry a promiscuous woman of ill-repute, and he did so. Marriage here is symbolic of the covenantal relationship between God and Israel. However, Israel has been unfaithful to God by following other gods and breaking the commandments which are the term... |
4451 /m/01f9l Book of Jonah The plot centers on a conflict between Jonah and God. God calls Jonah to proclaim judgment to Nineveh, but Jonah resists and attempts to flee. He goes to Joppa and boards a ship bound for Tarshish. God calls up a great storm at sea, and the ship's crew cast Jonah overboard in an attempt ... |
4452 /m/01fb1 Book of Micah * The Heading (1:1): As is typical of prophetic books, an anonymous editor has supplied the name of the prophet, an indication of his time of activity, and an identification of his speech as the “word of Yahweh”, a generic term carrying a claim to prophetic legitimacy and authority. Sama... |
4454 /m/01fby Book of Haggai Haggai's message is filled with an urgency for the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the second Jerusalem temple. Haggai attributes a recent drought to the peoples' refusal to rebuild the temple, which he sees as key to Jerusalem’s glory. The book ends with the prediction of the ... |
6020 /m/01t5z Crash J. G. Ballard 1973 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is told through the eyes of narrator James Ballard, named after the author himself, but it centers on the sinister figure of Dr. Robert Vaughan, a “former TV-scientist, turned nightmare ang... |
6628 /m/01y92 Children of Dune Frank Herbert 1976 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad'dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some ... |
6629 /m/01y9j Candide, ou l'Optimisme Voltaire 1759-01 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman", "/m/0g_jj": "Picaresque novel"} Candide contains thirty episodic chapters, which may be grouped into two main schemes: one consists of two divisions, separated by the protagonist's hiatus in El Dorado; the other ... |
6630 /m/01yb0 Chapterhouse Dune Frank Herbert 1985-04 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The situation is desperate for the Bene Gesserit as they find themselves the targets of the Honored Matres, whose conquest of the Old Emp... |
6921 /m/01_mr Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} The story is presented by Le Fanu as part of the casebook of Dr Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. The story is narrated by Laura, one of the two main protagonists of the tale.... |
7817 /m/025zx The Cider House Rules John Irving 1985 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood "being of use" as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, ... |
7923 /m/026l0 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/090ts5": "Invasion literature", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} The novel is told in ... |
8237 /m/0297f Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 {"/m/0gf28": "Parody", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/059r08": "Psychological novel", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/011ys5": "Farce", "/m/0g_jj": "Picaresque novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The First Sally Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retire... |
8547 /m/02ct8 Deuteronomy (The following "literary" outline of Deuteronomy is from John Van Seters; it can be contrasted with Alexander Rofé's "covenantal" analysis in his Deuteronomy: Issues and Interpretation.) *Chapters 1–4: The journey through the wilderness from Horeb (Sinai) to Kadesh and then to Moab is reca... |
8567 /m/02cxx Dune Messiah Frank Herbert 1969 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Twelve years after the events described in Dune (1965), Paul "Muad'Dib" Atreides rules as Emperor. By accepting the role of ... |
8757 /m/02fck Darwin's Dangerous Idea Daniel Dennett 1995 {"/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/06mq7": "Science"} "Starting in the Middle", Part I of Darwin's Dangerous Idea, gets its name from a quote by Willard Van Orman Quine: "Analyze theory-building how we will, we all must start in the middle. Our conceptual firsts a... |
9000 /m/02h3j Death of a Hero Richard Aldington {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the outbreak of World War I. The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main ch... |
9662 /m/02mr5 Exodus {"/m/02mdj1": "Religious text"} Egypt's Pharaoh, fearful of the Israelites' numbers, orders that all newborn boys be thrown into the Nile. A Levite woman saves her baby by setting him adrift on the river in an ark of bulrushes. Pharaoh's daughter finds the child, names him Moses, and brings him ... |
10861 /m/02y0f The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} On his thirtieth birthday, the chief financial officer of a bank, Josef K., is unexpectedly arrested by two unidentified agents from an unspecified agency for an unspecified crime. The agents' boss l... |
10862 /m/02y0x The Metamorphosis 1915 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} One day Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a "ungeheuren Ung... |
10951 /m/02yqq Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} On a rainy night while returning from his job, Guy Montag is followed by a... |
11745 /m/033fm Farmer Giles of Ham J. R. R. Tolkien {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Farmer Giles (Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo, "Giles Bronze-beard Julius Farmer of Ham") is not a hero. He is fat and red-bearded and enjoys a slow, comfortable life. But a rather deaf and short-sighted g... |
12253 /m/036xv Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers 1935 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Harriet Vane returns reluctantly to Oxford to attend the Gaudy dinner. Expecting hostility because of her notoriety, she is surprised to be we... |
12464 /m/038kg Gylfaginning Snorri Sturluson The Gylfaginning tells the story of Gylfi, a king of "the land that men now call Sweden", who after being tricked by one of the goddesses of the Æsir, wonders if all Æsir use magic and tricks for their will to be done. This is why he journeys to Asgard, but on the way he ... |
12653 /m/03b1x God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert 1981-05-28 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The seemingly immortal God Emperor Leto II has ruled his Empire for more than 3,500 years, his lifespan lengthened due to his decis... |
12667 /m/03b5d Genesis {"/m/02mdj1": "Religious text"} God creates the world in six days and consecrates the seventh after giving mankind his first commandment: "be fruitful and multiply". God pronounces the world "very good", but it becomes corrupted by the sin of man and God sends a deluge (a great flood) to destr... |
12995 /m/03dj5 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936-06-30 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) that foll... |
13535 /m/03j5j Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella", "/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef"} 'Heart of Darkness' opens in first person narrative; our narrator establishes the setting aboard a sailboat, "The Nellie, a cruising yawl," anchored in the Thames River near Gravesend (E... |
13554 /m/03j9w Hamlet William Shakespeare The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of deceased King Hamlet and his wife, Queen Gertrude. The story opens on a chilly night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle. Francisco, one of the sentinels, is relieved of his watch by Bernardo, another sentinel, a... |
13871 /m/03lvx Heretics of Dune Frank Herbert 1984 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Much has changed in the millennium and a half since the death of the God Emperor. Sandworms have reappeared on Arrakis (now called Rakis) and renewed the flow of the all-importa... |
14311 /m/03q5b Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi River, sometime between 1835 (wh... |
15055 /m/03wqm Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1819 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, Cedric's ward and a descendant ... |
15608 /m/03_b7 Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo 1939 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Joe Bonham, a young soldier serving in World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being caught in the blast of an exploding artillery shell. He gradually realizes that he has lost his arms, legs, and all of his face (in... |
17414 /m/04fpm Icehenge Kim Stanley Robinson 1984 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Icehenge is part mystery, part psychological drama, and is set in three distinct time periods. The story shifts from a failed Martian political revolution of 2248, to an expedition to explore a mysteri... |
18187 /m/04mbf Leviticus Chapters 1–5 describe the various sacrifices from the sacrificers' point of view, although the priests are essential for handling the blood. Chapters 6–7 go over much the same ground, but from the point of view of the priest, who, as the one actually carrying out the sacrifice and dividing ... |
18560 /m/04py7 Leaf by Niggle J. R. R. Tolkien In this story, an artist, named Niggle, lives in a society that does not much value art. Working only to please himself, he paints a canvas of a great Tree with a forest in the distance. He invests each and every leaf of his tree with obsessive attention to detail, maki... |
18866 /m/04rt6 Macbeth William Shakespeare The play opens amidst thunder and lightning, and the Three Witches decide that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generalsMacbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquohave just d... |
19002 /m/04svn Microserfs Douglas Coupland 1995-06 {"/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The plot of the novel has two distinct movements: the events at Microsoft and in Redmond, Washington, and the movement to Silicon Valley and the "Oop!" project. The novel begins in Redmond as the characters are w... |
19859 /m/04_m6 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Herman Melville 1851-10-18 {"/m/07m5w1": "Sea story", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel"} "Moby-Dick" begins with the line "Call me Ishmael." According to the American Book Review's rating in 2011, this is one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western ... |
20361 /m/053lw Moonfleet J. Meade Falkner 1898 {"/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel"} In 1757, Moonfleet is a small village near the sea in the south of England. It gets its name from a formerly prominent local family, the Mohunes, whose coat of arms included a symbol shaped like a capital 'Y'. John Trenchard is an orphan w... |
21725 /m/05g5q Neuromancer William Gibson 1984-07-01 {"/m/01qpc": "Cyberpunk", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler in the dystopian underworld of Chiba City, Japan. Once a talented computer hacker, Case was caught stealing... |
21861 /m/05h8j Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 1999 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The action takes place in two periods: the Second World War and the late 1990s, during the Internet boom. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a young U.S. Navy code breaker and mathematical genius, is assigned to the new... |
22113 /m/05k0h No Logo Naomi Klein 2000-01 {"/m/09s1f": "Business", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction", "/m/02j62": "Economics", "/m/0h5k": "Anthropology", "/m/06ms6": "Sociology", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book comprises four sections: "No Space", "No Choice", "No Jobs", and "No Logo". The first three deal with the negative ... |
22349 /m/05lm8 Odyssey Nextext The Odyssey begins ten years after the end of the ten-year Trojan War that is the subject of the Iliad, and Odysseus has still not returned home from the war. Odysseus' son Telemachus is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent father’s house on the island of Ithaca with his mother... |
22460 /m/05mdd Othello William Shakespeare The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, a high-ranking soldier, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army.... |
22808 /m/05q4s On War Carl von Clausewitz 1832 The book contains a wealth of historical examples used to illustrate its various concepts. Frederick II of Prussia (the Great) figures prominently for having made very efficient use of the limited forces at his disposal, though Napoleon is perhaps the central figure. Acc... |
23279 /m/05srj The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 1965 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} The story begins in a future world where global warming has resulted in global temperatures so high that in most of the world it is... |
23280 /m/05sry Time out of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} As the novel opens, its protagonist Ragle Gumm believes that he lives in the year 1959 in a quiet American suburb. His unusual profession consists of r... |
23281 /m/05ssb A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/059r08": "Psychological novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} The protagonist is Bob Arctor, member of a household of drug-users, who is also li... |
23285 /m/05stq Radio Free Albemuth Philip K. Dick 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} In this alternate history the corrupt US President Ferris F. Fremont (FFF for 666, ‘F’ being the 6th letter in the alphabet, see Number of the Beast) becomes Chief Executiv... |
24162 /m/060xy Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813-01-28 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The narrative opens with Mr Bingley, a wealthy, charming and social young bachelor, moving into Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood of the Bennet family. Mr Bingl... |
24861 /m/066v3 Pale Fire Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Shade's poem digressively describes many aspects of his life. Canto 1 includes his early encounters with death and glimpses of what he takes to be the supernatural. Canto 2 is about his family and the apparent suicide of his daughter, Haz... |
24965 /m/067ld Pacific Overtures Stephen Sondheim ;Act I Conceived as a sort of Japanese playwright's version of an American musical about American influences on Japan, Pacific Overtures begins its journey to the present day in July 1853. Since the foreigners were driven from the island empire, explains the Reciter,... |
25821 /m/06fsr Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare The play, set in Verona, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet supporters who are sworn enemies. The Prince of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about m... |
25830 /m/06fwq Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard 1967 {"/m/0pym5": "Absurdist fiction"} The play opens with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betting on coin flips. Rosencrantz, who bets heads each time, wins ninety-two flips in a row. The extreme unlikeliness of this event according to the laws of probabili... |
26052 /m/06hf1 Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel opens in 2850. Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition but is bored. He has experienced... |
26436 /m/06l7y Rent Jonathan Larson On Christmas Eve at 9 P.M. Mark Cohen, an aspiring filmmaker, begins a new documentary, as his roommate, Roger Davis, tunes up his guitar ("Tune Up #1") but they are quickly interrupted by a call from Mark's mother, who claims she was sorry to hear about his break-up with Maureen ... |
26476 /m/06lm3 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1972 {"/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} After a major disaster caused by a meteorite falling in Eastern Italy in 2077, the government of Earth sets up the Spaceguard system as an early warning of a... |
27490 /m/06vh_ Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1811 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} When Mr. Dashwood dies, his estate, Norland Park, passes directly to his only son John, the child of his first wife. His second wife, Mrs. Dashwood, and ... |
28230 /m/06_qc Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} On Novinha's request for a Speaker, Andrew Wiggin leaves for Lusitania, a colony turned into a virtual prison, with its expansion severely limited... |
28426 /m/0716m Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959-12 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It ... |
28833 /m/074g8 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Poet 2007 {"/m/05qgc": "Poetry"} In Camelot on New Year's Day King Arthur's court is exchanging gifts and waiting for the feasting to start when the king asks first to see or hear of an exciting adventure. At this a gigantic figure, entirely green in appearance and ... |
29414 /m/078y6 Stuart Little E. B. White 1945 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story is episodic. First we learn of Stuart's birth to a family in New York City and how the family adapts, socially and structurally, to having such a small son. He has an... |
29798 /m/07bz5 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien {"/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/050z5g": "Chivalric romance", "/m/03qfd": "High fantasy"} Long before the events of the novel, the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One Ring to domin... |
29821 /m/07c2t The Doors of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 {"/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} After a brief overview of research into mescaline, Huxley recounts that he was given 4/10 of a gram at 11:00 am one day in May 1953. Huxley writes that he hoped to gain insight into extraordinary states of ... |
29834 /m/07c62 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/07s2s": "Time travel", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia", "/m/01gw42": "Scientific romance"} Th... |
29991 /m/07ctj The Shockwave Rider John Brunner 1975 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in the weeks following Nick's recapture after several years on the run, alternating between moral arguments with his interrogator, who is trying to discover why... |
29999 /m/07cvr The Shining Stephen King 1977-01 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In 1976, Jack Torrance is an aspiring writer who is attempting to rebuild his marriage and career, both of which have been... |
30033 /m/07d4x Mort Terry Pratchett {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} As a teenager, Mort had a personality and temperament that made him rather unsuited to the family farming business. Mort's father, named Lezek, felt that Mort thought ... |
30280 /m/07g52 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1901 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Sir Charles Baskerville is found lying dead on the grounds of his country house, Baskerville Hall. The cause is ascribed to a heart attack. Fe... |
30292 /m/07g75 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/017ssy": "Juvenile fantasy", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Gandalf tricks Bilbo into hosting a party for Thorin and his band of dwarves, who sin... |
30706 /m/07k85 The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis 1945 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/06bvp": "Religion"} The narrator inexplicably finds himself in a grim and joyless city, the "grey town", which is either hell or purgatory depending on how long one stays there. He eventually finds a bus ... |
30709 /m/07k8z The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 {"/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/03rllnc": "Inspirational", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the i... |
30757 /m/07kmq The Pit and the Pendulum Nancy Kilpatrick 1842 {"/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0707q": "Short story"} The story takes place during the Spanish Inquisition. At the beginning of the story an unnamed narrator is brought to trial before various sinister judges. Poe provides no... |
30761 /m/07knm The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy 1984 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/017rf8": "Techno-thriller", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, a Lithuanian submarine commander in the Soviet Navy, intends to defect to the United States with... |
30762 /m/07kp1 The Cardinal of the Kremlin Tom Clancy 1988 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} CIA analyst Jack Ryan attends a diplomatic conference in Moscow as part of an American delegation to the Soviet Union. He learns that the CIA’s most highly-placed agent, codenamed "CARDINAL"... |
30763 /m/07kpf Debt of Honor Tom Clancy {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In New York City, Japanese industrialist Raizo Yamata purchases a controlling interest in an American hedge fund. He flies to Saipan — the site of his parents' suicide during the American invasion of the... |
30971 /m/07m5q Tunnel in the Sky Robert A. Heinlein 1955 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A Malthusian catastrophe on Earth has been averted by the invention of teleportation, called the "Ramsbotham jump", which is used to s... |
31283 /m/07pn6 The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould 1981 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction", "/m/06mq7": "Science"} The Mismeasure of Man is a critical analysis of the early works of scientific racism about the supposed, biologically inherited (genetic) basis for human intelligence, such as craniometry, the measurement of ... |
31342 /m/07pzw The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward paintin... |
31431 /m/07qs_ The Book of the City of Ladies Part I opens with Christine reading from Matheolus’s Lamentations, a work from the thirteenth century that addresses marriage wherein the author writes that women make men’s lives miserable. Upon reading these words, Christine becomes upset and feels ashamed to be a wom... |
31434 /m/07qv5 The Sentinel Arthur C. Clarke 1951 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story deals with the discovery of an artifact on Earth's Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. The object is made of a polished mineral and tetrahedral in shape, and is surrounded by a spherical forcefield. The narrator s... |
31435 /m/07qvl The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke 1979 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} In the 22nd century, Dr Vannevar Morgan is a famous structural engineer who hopes to develop the 'space elevator' from a theoretical concept to reality and enlists the resources of his emp... |
31584 /m/07s0_ Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British plane crashes onto an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors... |
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