“I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.” The story of the Compson Family is told in The Sound and the […]
Classic
“‘Life,’ wrote a friend of mine, ‘is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.'” Set in the early 20th century, A Room With a View is a classic novel about a girl coming of age and trying to figure out […]
A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would […]
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town …” Faulkner is a great writer. Reading his works is like taking a breath of fresh air after being stuck inside for days. I have read good books by good […]
Selected Short Stories by William Faulkner
“I am not what you call a civilized man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!” Something interesting has been found in […]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
by Jules Verne
1 “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.” When the animals on a farm overthrow the humans, the goal is for the animals to live in harmony and each animal help according to his or her own abilities. To most, the change in life borders living […]