Teheran, tweede helft van de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw, de jaren dertig in de Iraanse jaartelling. De stad is in beroering door allerlei politieke gebeurtenissen. De geheime dienst van de sjah, de gevreesde SAVAK, voert een waar schrikbewind tegen de eigen bevolking. Een zelfverzekerd meisje bevrijdt zich van het juk van geloof en traditie. Samen met haar maken wij kennis met mensen uit verschillende sociale klassen. Door haar nieuwe baan in een modehuis wordt haar leven in vier weken ...

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...