"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public places or within a range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away." Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth, returns to his apartment and begins writing a diary to…
The narrator is living in an unspecified institution when he recounts his week in New York City during Christmas break following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a preparatory school in Pennsylvania. The narrator later tells the reason for his expulsion is due to his poor performance at the school. He…
A graduate from New Haven and veteran of the Great War decides to travel East to learn the bond business. He rents a small house with another young man at West Egg, a less unfashionable village but populated with wealthy people. His next-door neighbour is a mysterious gentleman named Jay…
"I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed" Anne received a new diary as one of her birthday presents and began to write about her life after two days of her birthday, 12th June. The journal started with a brief story of her birthday,…
This is one of the best graphic novels I've ever read. Wow. The drawings were so beautiful. The sequence of the story was extremely accurate and wordings were very similar to the original story. I recommend to anyone who loves the novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and also to anyone…
The narrator begins recounting her family history with Simon Finch, who fled England to escape religious persecution and established a prosperous farm on the banks of the Alabama River. The narrator introduces his father as Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the nearby town of Maycomb, a tired, poor, old town…
Rosemary and her husband Guy doesn't mind to break their recently signed lease of a five-bedroom apartment so that they can rent a four-room apartment located at the Bramford. Rosemary is even more excited when the previous tenant's son willingly to sell most of the furniture from the apartment at…
The story begins with Norman Bates, a 40-year-old man falls asleep on a couch when reading a book. His domineering mother appears, and they start to argue. Norman runs the Bates Motel which is just down the hill of their house.Meanwhile, Mary Crane is on the run after stealing…
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,…