Gargantua and Pantagruel  |
| Francois Rabelais (1494 - 1553) |
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| Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) |
Hunchbacked, one-eyed, lame and eventually deaf, Quasimodo is the bell-ringer at the Notre Dame cathedral in 15th century Paris, France. A victim of constant ridicule, Quasimodo finds greatest solace and happiness in these bells. He loves them like no other, until he happens upon the beautiful gypsy, La Esmerelda. A hunchback, an Archdeacon, a playwright and a handsome Captain - each enchanted by La Esmerelda. Accusations of sorcery, a sham marriage, mayhem and murder - The Hunchback of Notre Dame continues to entertain. |
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| Leviathan |
| Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) |
Written in 1651 during the chaos of the English Civil War. Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce peace and the law. The work was publicly burnt for sedition and blasphemy when it was first published. Hobbes' view that man's essential nature is competitive and selfish is as challenging today as it was when originally published, the work remains relevant to the modern world and stands as one of the most fascinating works of modern philosophy. |
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| No Name |
| Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) |
When published in 1862 it was condemned by critics as immoral, today it is regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover that their parents were not married at the time of their birth and that they are, therefore, illegitimate. They are disinherited and expelled from their family estate. They either adapt to their new station in life, or attempt to recover their wealth by any means... |
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| Northanger Abbey |
| Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) |
On a visit to Bath, seventeen year old Catherine Morland meets Henry and Eleanor Tilney who invite her to their father's estate, Northanger Abbey. Inspired by the Gothic novels that she enjoys, Catherine begins to imagine all sorts of dark and mysterious happenings at the abbey...... |
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| The Aspern Papers |
| Henry James (1843 - 1916) |
One of James' best-known and most acclaimed longer tales follows an un-named narrator as he goes to almost any lengths to obtain a dead poet's papers and letters from his widow. James lovingly creates a Venice where the unexpected seems an everyday occurrence and the unrelenting tension mounts until the final page. |
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| The Dhammapada |
| F. Max Muller (1823 - 1900) |
The Dhammapada contains verses that are the answers to questions put to the Buddha himself. In these verses the Buddha illustrates the path to enlightenment, the liberation from suffering and ultimately the achievement of Nirvana which also ends the cycle of birth, old age, sickness, and death. |
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