The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set ...
Eugenie Grandet is a novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized. Balzac conceived his ambitious project, ...
The Dark Tower is a series of books written by American author Stephen King, which incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western. It describes a gunslinger and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. King ...
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was cited by the Nobel Committee as ...
The Colour of Magic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. The books frequently parody, or take inspiration from, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and William Shakespeare, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, often ...
The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. It is woven around a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, and the foremost of Soviet satires. In part, it is angled against a suffocatingly ...
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval ...
A sope is a traditional Mexican dish originating in the central and southern parts of Mexico, where it was sometimes first known as pellizcadas. It is an antojito which at first sight looks like an unusually thick tortilla with vegetables and meat toppings. The base is made from a circle of fried ...
