The Black Cat, short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in August 1843 and included in the collection Tales by Edgar Allen Poe (1845). The story’s narrator is an animal lover who, as he descends into alcoholism and perverse violence, begins mistreating his wife and his black cat Pluto.

When Pluto attacks him in self-defense one night, he seizes the cat in a fury, cuts out one of its eyes, and hangs it. That night a fire destroys his house, leaving him in ...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is abildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Ha...

Als de Tweede Wereldoorlog zijn tol eist, dreigen twee zussen elkaar te verliezen.

Noord-Holland, 1943. De grimmigheid van de Duitse bezetter groeit met de dag. Ondanks het gevaar kiezen de zussen Edith en Janna elk hun eigen pad in het verzet.

De oproep tot dwangarbeid en de daaropvolgende staking zijn voor de impulsieve Janna de druppel – ze kan niet langer toekijken. Edith, verpleegster in Alkmaar, raakt tegen wil en dank betrokken bij het laten onderduiken van Joodse kinderen – een ge...