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Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (Tales of the Weird)
D. Butcher · 2020
Strange Houses: A Novel
Uketsu · 2025
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 2013
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins · 2017
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Arthur Miller · 2003
<b>A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community<br><br>A Penguin Classic</b><br> <br> "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to <i>The Crucible</i>, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria.<br> <br> In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.<br> <br> Written in 1953, <i>The Crucible</i> is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing: "Political opposition...is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."<br><br> For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Tell-Tale Heart (Bantam Classics)
Edgar Allan Poe · 1983
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor · 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger · 2023
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum · 2012
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Vintage International)
Patrick Suskind · 2014
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang · 2022
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2023
Jantar Secreto
Raphael Montes · 2024
The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
Shirley Jackson · 2006
ROMEO AND JUILET
William shakespeare · 2022
Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas
Machado de Assis · 1900
Santo de casa
Stefano Volp · 2025
<p> <b>Uma onça mata um homem no meio da floresta. Enquanto a família se organiza para enterrar o patriarca, Stefano Volp costura entre os personagens uma colcha de memórias, desprazeres e suspeitas, interseccionando o luto com temas urgentes como as masculinidades negras, a violência doméstica e a dominação masculina.</b> </p> <p> </p> <p>Três irmãos, Alan, Alex e Betina, se reúnem para organizar o velório do pai, Zé Maria, após sua morte trágica. Enquanto a cidade realiza uma procissão para se despedir de um morador benquisto, Rute, a mãe, e os três filhos atravessam as complexidades do luto: apesar da saudade, o patriarca deixou na família marcas de violência e opressão.</p> <p>Com alternância de vozes e perspectivas, a construção narrativa explora o terreno das masculinidades negras e revela as facetas da violência de gênero em suas múltiplas formas, investigando as dores provocadas pela sociedade machista.</p> <p>Volp faz aqui uma incursão ousada em um gênero novo, estreando no romance contemporâneo e experimentando uma linguagem distinta das que já explorou em suas obras anteriores. Santo de casa toca em feridas profundas e exemplifica o quanto o sistema patriarcal, além de rebaixar qualquer outro gênero que não o masculino, precariza a subjetividade dos próprios homens.</p> <p>"O livro nasce da escuta de histórias que me cercaram pelas cidades da Baixada Fluminense por onde cresci. Histórias vividas entre quatro paredes por lares que lutaram para sobreviver contra o feminicídio, os horrores do machismo e as violências do patriarcado" – Stefano Volp.</p>
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe · 1995
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux · 2016
Carmilla
J. Sheridan LeFanu · 2020
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 2011
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie · 2011
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021
