The Maracot Deep

Author

Eoin Colfer

In the future, in a place called Satelite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products....

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0099490668

Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not...

Author	Jules Verne
ISBN	1421820609

There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president, Sir Francis M -, made an important communication to his colleagues, in an address that was frequently interrupted by applause. This rare...

Author	Jonathan Swift
ISBN	0141018879

'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity....

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0811209563

Ένας συγγραφέας που γράφει για τη ζωή ενός άλλου συγγραφέα. Μια υπέροχη μυθιστορηματική βιογραφία του Μολιέρου που διαβάζεται σαν παραμύθι με πολλές...

Author	Arkady Strugatsky
ISBN	5968000236

"Понедельник начинается в субботу. Сказка для научных работников младшего возраста" - под таким заголовком в 1965 году вышла книга, которой зачитывались...

Author	Clifford D. Simak
ISBN	0786701005

Andrew Blake is found in a space capsule on a distant planet and is brought back to an unfamiliar Earth, where antigravity devices have replaced the wheel, and houses talk and even fly!
Yet nothing is as strange as Blake's own feelings. Tormented by eerie sensations and loss of memory, he doesn't...

Author

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

A patient in a mental hospital tells anyone who will listen his story of chasing a Kappa in the woods, when he fell down a hole and landed in Kappaland, a parallel world to the one above. And, by the way, friends he made in Kappaland come back to visit him nightly.

What’s a Kappa? It’s a scaly,...