Catch-22
Satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller
Satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller
1954 debut novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding
1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco
Essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511. Inspired by previous works of the Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli De Triumpho Stultitiae, it is a satirical attack on superstitions, other traditions of European society and on the Western Church.Erasmus revised and extended his work, which was originally written in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More’s house in Bucklersbury in the City of London
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: , tr. Prestuplniye i nakazniye, IPA: [prstplenje nkzanje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of …
Last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth’s life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct
Novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad
American statesman, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury