This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, an…
كانت تلك أوّل مرة يبدو فيها بكرُها هشًّا وضئيلًا وموشكًا على البكاء. ألا يقول الحقيقة هذه المرة؟ حقيقة أنها أحبّته «على طريقتها الجاسوسية الشاذة» وليس كما يحتاج؟ ولكن بأيّ شيء تفيدُ تلك القوائم اللانه…
Howards End is considered by many to be E. M. Forster’s masterpiece. First published in 1910, this beguiling and completely captivating tale explores social conventions, codes of conduct, and relation…
One of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of tho…
النيل والفرات: "يولد الأطفال فيستقبلون الحياة بالصريخ، هذا هو المعروف. ولكن يروى أن الزين، والعهدة على أمه والنساء اللائي حضرت ولادتها، أول ما مس الأرض، انفجر ضاحكاً. وظل هكذا طول حياته. كبر وليس في فم…
With The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired a long line of imitators. Portraying her heroine's inner life, creating a thick atmosphere of fear, a…
Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a modest r…
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight,…
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.
