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Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
by Alana Valentine
The play opens in a science laboratory, where Shafana—a university student—is practicing a presentation about deep sea organisms. She speaks about how shrimp and other sea creatures have to constan...
Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche
In the forward to Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche states the book’s central purpose: to examine and destroy the antiquated idols (ideals or values) that are responsible for the nihilism and decade...
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
In 1348, the Bubonic Plague ravages the city of Florence, turning society upside down. During these dark days, seven young women—Pampinea, Fiammetta, Filomena, Emilia, Lauretta, Neifile, and Elissa...
Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
by Alana Valentine
The play opens in a science laboratory, where Shafana—a university student—is practicing a presentation about deep sea organisms. She speaks about how shrimp and other sea creatures have to constan...
Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche
In the forward to Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche states the book’s central purpose: to examine and destroy the antiquated idols (ideals or values) that are responsible for the nihilism and decade...
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
In 1348, the Bubonic Plague ravages the city of Florence, turning society upside down. During these dark days, seven young women—Pampinea, Fiammetta, Filomena, Emilia, Lauretta, Neifile, and Elissa...
Flight
by John Steinbeck
Mama Torres lives on the Torres farm on the coast of California, raising her three children: Pepé (a 19-year-old boy) and his younger siblings Emilio and Rosy. Mama Torres has run the farm ever sin...
Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
by Alana Valentine
The play opens in a science laboratory, where Shafana—a university student—is practicing a presentation about deep sea organisms. She speaks about how shrimp and other sea creatures have to constan...
Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche
In the forward to Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche states the book’s central purpose: to examine and destroy the antiquated idols (ideals or values) that are responsible for the nihilism and decade...
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
In 1348, the Bubonic Plague ravages the city of Florence, turning society upside down. During these dark days, seven young women—Pampinea, Fiammetta, Filomena, Emilia, Lauretta, Neifile, and Elissa...
Flight
by John Steinbeck
Mama Torres lives on the Torres farm on the coast of California, raising her three children: Pepé (a 19-year-old boy) and his younger siblings Emilio and Rosy. Mama Torres has run the farm ever sin...
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
by Phaswane Mpe
Welcome to Our Hillbrow takes place in the Hillbrow neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa during the 1990’s, when the country was transitioning out of the apartheid era. Refentše, born in rura...
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
On a passenger ship off the coast of San Francisco, the wealthy intellectual and literary critic (and the book’s narrator) Humphrey Van Weyden is on his way to visit a friend. Suddenly, however, fo...
Flight
by John Steinbeck
Mama Torres lives on the Torres farm on the coast of California, raising her three children: Pepé (a 19-year-old boy) and his younger siblings Emilio and Rosy. Mama Torres has run the farm ever sin...
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
by Phaswane Mpe
Welcome to Our Hillbrow takes place in the Hillbrow neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa during the 1990’s, when the country was transitioning out of the apartheid era. Refentše, born in rura...
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
On a passenger ship off the coast of San Francisco, the wealthy intellectual and literary critic (and the book’s narrator) Humphrey Van Weyden is on his way to visit a friend. Suddenly, however, fo...
The White Devil
by John Webster
Count Lodovico is devasted to have been banished from Rome—though he admits that he committed crimes (including murder) to warrant this punishment. Antonelli and Gasparo, Lodovico’s friends, promis...
There’s Someone Inside Your House
by Stephanie Perkins
Haley Whitehall, the star of Osborne High’s drama department, returns to an empty house and spots the egg-shaped kitchen timer lying inexplicably on the welcome mat at the front door. It’s odd, but...
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noemí Taboada receives a summons from her father while at a lavish costume party. She cuts her date short and returns home, where her father hands her a mysterious letter from Catalina, her cousin....
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Fourteen-year-old Johnny is a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston. Though he’s clever and well-liked, he’s cruel to his fellow apprentices, Dove and Dusty. He has a good, if somewhat antagonistic re...
The Management of Grief
by Bharati Mukherjee
After a tragic plane crash just off the coast of Ireland, members of Shaila Bhave’s community gather in her house in Toronto. Shaila’s husband and two sons were killed in the crash, as were the hus...
Indian Ink
by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard’s play Indian Ink interweaves two storylines set more than 50 years apart. In 1930, the fiery, controversial English poet Flora Crewe goes to the fictional city of Jummapur, India, whe...
The Man of the Crowd
by Edgar Allan Poe
An unnamed narrator sits in a London coffee-house on an autumn evening, his body and mind having recently recovered from a brief bout of illness. Feeling unusually attentive and curious, he begins ...
The Golden Ass
by Apuleius
Lucius, a man originally from the Greek part of the Roman Empire, is on a journey to Thessaly. He says he wants to tell a witty and wonderful story, but apologizes for his own poor Latin (since he ...
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The children of a coastal village encounter the large, drowned body of a man which washes up on the beach. The body is covered with many items from the sea. A few men from the coastal village carry...
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
by Phaswane Mpe
Welcome to Our Hillbrow takes place in the Hillbrow neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa during the 1990’s, when the country was transitioning out of the apartheid era. Refentše, born in rura...
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
On a passenger ship off the coast of San Francisco, the wealthy intellectual and literary critic (and the book’s narrator) Humphrey Van Weyden is on his way to visit a friend. Suddenly, however, fo...
The White Devil
by John Webster
Count Lodovico is devasted to have been banished from Rome—though he admits that he committed crimes (including murder) to warrant this punishment. Antonelli and Gasparo, Lodovico’s friends, promis...
There’s Someone Inside Your House
by Stephanie Perkins
Haley Whitehall, the star of Osborne High’s drama department, returns to an empty house and spots the egg-shaped kitchen timer lying inexplicably on the welcome mat at the front door. It’s odd, but...
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noemí Taboada receives a summons from her father while at a lavish costume party. She cuts her date short and returns home, where her father hands her a mysterious letter from Catalina, her cousin....
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Fourteen-year-old Johnny is a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston. Though he’s clever and well-liked, he’s cruel to his fellow apprentices, Dove and Dusty. He has a good, if somewhat antagonistic re...
The Management of Grief
by Bharati Mukherjee
After a tragic plane crash just off the coast of Ireland, members of Shaila Bhave’s community gather in her house in Toronto. Shaila’s husband and two sons were killed in the crash, as were the hus...
Indian Ink
by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard’s play Indian Ink interweaves two storylines set more than 50 years apart. In 1930, the fiery, controversial English poet Flora Crewe goes to the fictional city of Jummapur, India, whe...
The Man of the Crowd
by Edgar Allan Poe
An unnamed narrator sits in a London coffee-house on an autumn evening, his body and mind having recently recovered from a brief bout of illness. Feeling unusually attentive and curious, he begins ...
The Golden Ass
by Apuleius
Lucius, a man originally from the Greek part of the Roman Empire, is on a journey to Thessaly. He says he wants to tell a witty and wonderful story, but apologizes for his own poor Latin (since he ...
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The children of a coastal village encounter the large, drowned body of a man which washes up on the beach. The body is covered with many items from the sea. A few men from the coastal village carry...
The White Devil
by John Webster
Count Lodovico is devasted to have been banished from Rome—though he admits that he committed crimes (including murder) to warrant this punishment. Antonelli and Gasparo, Lodovico’s friends, promis...
There’s Someone Inside Your House
by Stephanie Perkins
Haley Whitehall, the star of Osborne High’s drama department, returns to an empty house and spots the egg-shaped kitchen timer lying inexplicably on the welcome mat at the front door. It’s odd, but...
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noemí Taboada receives a summons from her father while at a lavish costume party. She cuts her date short and returns home, where her father hands her a mysterious letter from Catalina, her cousin....
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Fourteen-year-old Johnny is a silversmith’s apprentice in Boston. Though he’s clever and well-liked, he’s cruel to his fellow apprentices, Dove and Dusty. He has a good, if somewhat antagonistic re...
The Management of Grief
by Bharati Mukherjee
After a tragic plane crash just off the coast of Ireland, members of Shaila Bhave’s community gather in her house in Toronto. Shaila’s husband and two sons were killed in the crash, as were the hus...
Indian Ink
by Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard’s play Indian Ink interweaves two storylines set more than 50 years apart. In 1930, the fiery, controversial English poet Flora Crewe goes to the fictional city of Jummapur, India, whe...
The Man of the Crowd
by Edgar Allan Poe
An unnamed narrator sits in a London coffee-house on an autumn evening, his body and mind having recently recovered from a brief bout of illness. Feeling unusually attentive and curious, he begins ...
The Golden Ass
by Apuleius
Lucius, a man originally from the Greek part of the Roman Empire, is on a journey to Thessaly. He says he wants to tell a witty and wonderful story, but apologizes for his own poor Latin (since he ...
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The children of a coastal village encounter the large, drowned body of a man which washes up on the beach. The body is covered with many items from the sea. A few men from the coastal village carry...
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