Anthony Cade hates his current job as a tour guide for Castle's Select Tours in Bulawayo but has no choice due to financial difficulties. He meets his old friend James McGrath, and James offers him a job. Anthony agrees to deliver a manuscript of Count Stylptitch's memoir to a publisher…
The entire story is narrated by the protagonist, Alex, with heavy usage of Nadsat language. Nadsat is a Russian-influenced fictional slang invented by the author. The teenagers use the dialect or 'nadsats', with the name coming from the Russian suffix for 'teen'. The story sets in a near-future dystopian city…
"By 17 November 1952 Allen & Unwin decided that the most economical way to publish The Lord of the Rings was in three volumes, at a price not exceeding 25s each. This unfortunately has led many of its readers to speak of it as three separate but interconnected works, a 'trilogy',…
This story is set in the 1840s in the town of St Petersburg located in Missouri. Tom Sawyer, an orphan boy, lives with his mother's sister, Aunt Polly. Aunt Polly loves Tom dearly and very strict with him. Tom is a fun-loving, quick-witted, and adventurous boy who always finds his…
Writer: Mildred Wirt (1935). Revised By: Grace Grote (1972). Aunt Eloise invites Nancy to New York City to meet her detective friend for a mystery case in Illinois. Detective Boyce tells the story of a wounded French missionary in 1680. The French missionary was nursed and regained consciousness only long…
Writer: Mildred Wirt (1934). Revised By: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams & Grace Grote (1965). Mr Drew has a client Lawrence Baker who owns a summer cottage at Misty Lake. Before Mr Baker leaves to Europe, he rented his place for two weeks to a young woman called Cecily Curtis. The caretaker…
Writer: Walter Karig (1933). Revised By: Patricia Doll (1966). When Nancy is on the flagstone path of her garden, a wounded bird plummeted down and landed among the flowers. The homing pigeon has a thin piece of paper on its leg. And the message indicates trouble will occur and after…
Writer: Walter Karig (1933). Revised By: Patricia Doll (1968). Nancy and her friends Bess and George are heading for a secluded inn called The Sign of the Twisted Candles. There are rumours from their neighbours that an old man was virtually a prisoner in the tower of the old-fashioned mansion.…
Clegg works as a clerk in a city hall. His favourite thing to do during his free time is collecting butterflies. Clegg is obsessed with Miranda Grey, an art student who lives opposite the city hall. He admires her from a distance and even has an observation diary with her…
"Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky."Part IThe unusual events occurred in 194- at the town of Oran, which is merely a sizeable French port on the Algerian coast, headquarters of the Perfect of…