In late autumn 1902 while a student at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria, Franz Xaver Kappus was reading Rilke's poetry. He was approached by the academy's chaplain, Horacek. According to Horacek, Rilke had been a pupil years earlier at the academy's lower school at Sankt…
"Well, I say, we all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what is have to hand." The entire book consists of Celie's letters telling her life stories to God, and towards the end, she writes letters to her sister,…
The story begins with the narrator and the family is on a sailing ship experiencing a fierce storm. The ship's crews evacuate without them with the last remaining boat. William and Elizabeth and their four children (Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Francis) are left to survive alone. They able to survive…
Everyone said she was the most disagreeable child they ever saw. Mary's parents abandon her and leave her under the servants' care. Without her parents love and caring, she becomes a spoiled child - tyrannical and selfish. One day, when the chlorella starts spreading in India, a few servants died…
Poirot and Hastings travel to France after they received a letter from Paul Renauld. When they arrive at his home, local police inform them that he had been found dead in the morning. Paul Renauld is stabbed in the back and left in the newly dug grave adjacent to the…
Nancy and her friend Helen travel to a historic inn and resort owned by Emily and her fiancé, Dick, which will serve as their livelihood after marriage. Nancy is called home to investigate a break-in of her own bedroom, and discovers that her card is stolen. There is someone out…
This book consists of 284 fables and some illustrations. These stories teach moral lessons, often with animals. Aesop's fables are the perfect way to learn important lessons about life through the adventures of some unforgettable animal friends. Despite Aesop's fables often retold especially for children, I still love it as…
Huckleberry Finn is a poor boy who tries to run away from his drunken father. After being kidnapped by his father who only interested in his fortune, Huck fakes his own death. He hides out on a nearby island, where he meets another runaway: Jim, a slave who tries to…
Set in 1919 London, Tommy and Tuppence, experiencing unemployment and shortage of money. They form a partnership, hiring themselves out as “young adventurers”. They are overhead by Mr. Whittington who follows Tuppence to offer her a position. However, when Tuppence gives her name as “Jane Finn”, he is shocked and…
"Ah, I am glad she has come. There is a woman with a head and a heart too, Hastings. Though the good God gave her no beauty!" Hastings (the narrator of this story) was on his sick leave from the First World War. His old friend John Cavendish…