An essay that describes the experience of the English narrator called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.
A tale of generosity, compassion, and irony surrounding a beautiful golden statue of the happy prince and his companion, a little Swallow.
A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.
How much cold can a man stand before he freezes to death? Jack, an Alaska gold rush era miner, is abandoned by his partner and left to make his way through the wilderness alone. Starving and injured, he struggles physically and spiritually to come to grips with what is of true value in his life.
A story about two gold prospectors who are struggling to survive on the frozen tundra of Canada. They cross the tundra looking for food, all the while suffering from starvation and exposure to the elements.
A man, given a life sentence for burglary and murder owns to the burglary but pleads passionately his innocence of the murder.
This depicts a young man's first journey to the Far East.
A story built upon three calamities that happen in a steep lonely cutting of a railway line.
Attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent he finds a valley, cut off from the rest of the world on all sides by steep precipices. There, he discovers a society of people who cannot see.
(the child) “went plump with outstretched hand through the green door and let it slam behind him. And so, in a trice, he came into the garden that has haunted all his life.”
In this celebrated ghost story, an intrepid and self-confident young man resolves to spend the night in a room which is reportedly haunted by a malevolent spirit, determined to disprove the legend.
The story of a man who invents a machine that travels through time. Accelerating rapidly into the future, he arrives in the year 802,701 to discover that the human race has degenerated into two races, one which literally feeds upon the other.
An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships.
A white man visits a Malay friend in an Indonesian rainforest whose mistress is dying. The friend tells the white man the story of his past.
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