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 ...

They say life is all about choices; that our choices, whether easy or difficult, shape the journey ahead. But what if for every path we choose, another possibility unfolds in a parallel universe?

Roya is a work of historical fiction, telling the story of a young Iranian woman living in a parallel universe, one in which the Iranian Revolution of 1979 did not happen and the Islamic Republic was not established. In this alternate reality, the ayatollahs never rose to power and Iran follows a dif...

In de Keltische sage van Tristan en Isolde gaat het vooral over ridder Tristan. Maar hoe zat het met Isolde? Het verhaal van hun gedoemde liefde werd al door de middeleeuwse minstrelen bezongen. In deze vertelling komt voor het eerst Isolde aan het woord. Het verhaal speelt zich af in de zesde eeuw, op het breukvlak van twee tijdperken. De historische achtergrond is echter ondergeschikt in deze liefdesgeschiedenis.

'De Heer gaf ons geloof, hoop en liefde. Maar de grootste daarvan is de liefde...

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...

Ein ehrgeiziger Kaufmannssohn, eine verbotene Liebe und der erbitterte Kampf zweier rivalisierender Handelsmächte

1593. Die Hanse kämpft um ihr Überleben, misstrauisch beäugen die Kaufleute Lübecks den Aufstieg des rivalisierenden Amsterdam. Der junge Arjen, unehelich in eine Lübecker Kaufmannsfamilie geboren und voller Neugier auf die weite Welt, macht sich auf, um in der niederländischen Metropole das Glück zu finden. Dank seinem Geschäftssinn erarbeitet er sich schnell Reichtum un...

Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners commonly known as simply Madame Bovary, is the début novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, originally published in 1856 and 1857. The eponymous character, Emma Bovary, lives beyond her means in order to escape the ennui of provincial life.

When the novel was first serialised in Revue de Paris between 1 October and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. Following ...