Frankenstein is a deeply passionate story of a monstrous creation, which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818 and tells the story of doctor Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with the idea of creating life, who plunders graveyards to create new human beings from the bodies of the dead, which he shocks into life by electricity and which are botched creatures, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, that cause nothing but murder and destruction.

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One of Britain’s most popular novels, George Orwell’s dystopian tale 1984 is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.

The novel also coined many new words and phrases which regularly appear in popular culture, such as 'Big Brother', 'thoughtcrime', 'doublethink' and 'Newspeak'.

George Orwell, also kno...

Herbert George Wells was a British author, that was prolific in many genres of literature, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories.

His non-fiction works of literature include works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.

The author's science fiction novels are so favorably regarded that he is considered the father of science fiction and the originator of this genre.

The First Men in the Moon is the author's magnum op...