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Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Black Arrow –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in (More) Tunstall Forest organized by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon and calling card is a black arrow, cause Dick to suspect that his guardian Sir Daniel Brackley and his retainers are responsible for his father’s murder. Dick’s suspicions are enough to turn Sir Daniel against him, so he has no recourse but to escape from Sir Daniel and join the outlaws of the Black Arrow against him. This struggle sweeps him up into the greater conflict surrounding them all. The story of the Wars of the Roses is told in miniature by The Black Arrow.

Wells, Herbert George – The Invisible Man –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this: if the refractive index of a person’s body is adjusted to exactly that of air, then his body will not (More) absorb or reflect light and he will become invisible. Griffin subjects himself to a procedure to do this, becoming an invisible man. But he cannot manage to reverse it and become visible once more, resulting in his mental unhinging.

Wells, Herbert George – The War of the worlds –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English gentleman narrates the (More) events of a violent and fast paced Martian invasion.The frightening images of people fleeing from gigantic tripod machines and the prospect of life under Martian rule have served as a bottomless well of inspiration for popular culture. The novel has served as a template for many derivative or inspired works, including comics, countless books, a tv series, several films, a bestselling musical, and the famous Orson Wells broadcast. Overall, The War of the Worlds has become an early milestone in and inspiration for the invasion genre.

Deledda, Grazia – Canne al vento –
Language: Italian, Novel – Format: ePub

Canne al vento è un romanzo di Grazia Deledda. Il titolo del romanzo più famoso di Grazia Deledda allude al tema profondo della fragilità umana e del dolore dell’esistenza e in questa direzione mobilita le riflessioni e le (More) fantasie di un eroe protagonista, come un primitivo, un semplice, assai simile al pastore errante dell’Asia leopardiano o a uno degli umili manzoniani. Il rapporto di similitudine tra la condizione delle canne e la vita degli uomini, celebrato nel titolo del romanzo, proviene da un’opera (Elias Portolu) del 1903: Uomini siamo, Elias, uomini fragili come canne, pensaci bene. Al di sopra di noi c’è una forza che non possiamo vincere. Nel 1926 ottenne il premio Nobel per la letteratura. È stata definita la scrittrice del verismo romantico.

Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel (More) includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book’s several themes is the ubiquity of transience.

Twain, Mark – Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc –
Language: English, History & Biography – Format: ePub

Mark Twain’s work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan’s page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from (More) the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, “Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France”.

Tzu, Sun – The Art of War –
Language: English, Essay & Philosophy – Format: ePub

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is (More) commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time. It has been the most famous and influential of China’s Seven Military Classics, and “for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name.”[1] It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.

Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes –
Language: English, Short Stories – Format: ePub

A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine and subsequently collected into a single volume.
There is not always a crime committed nor (More) a culprit to find, and when there is, Holmes does not invariably get his man. However, his extraordinary powers of deduction generally solve the mystery, often to the discomfiture of the official police force. Holmes is a man of many facets, and I do not share the common perception of Holmes as cold and humourless: his sense of fun can be sparkling, and there are moments of rare pathos.

Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Hound of the Baskervilles –
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on (More) Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound.

Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes –
Language: English, Short Stories – Format: ePub

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a brilliant London-based “consulting detective” famous for his intellectual prowess (More) and renowned for his enormous scope of observation, his astute logical reasoning and forensic science skills in solving difficult crimes. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, including The Final Problem in which Holmes confronts his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty, originally published in 1894, which are preceded by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and followed by The Hound of the Baskervilles.