Tenth of December: Stories
A collection of stories which includes “Home,” a wryly whimsical account of a soldier’s return from war; “Victory lap,” a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
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A Hologram for the King
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In “A Hologram for the King,” Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man …
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When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
Ever since the 1981 publication of her stunning debut, “Housekeeping,” Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist (her second novel, “Gilead,” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. Her …
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England’s greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as “Oliver Twist”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, and “Great Expectations”, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved …
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Oliver Twist
This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens’s novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist. One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, “Oliver Twist “is also famous for its re-creation–through the splendidly realized figures of Fagin, …
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