Brave New World
08 Mayo, 2015
Author: Aldous Huxley
Summary
Set far in the future, in the twenty-sixth century, it depicts a society in which people’s lives are completely controlled by world government. Foetuses are created by artificial fertilization in test tubes and ‘parents’ are unknown. Society is divided into different levels, with each level performing different functions, and children are given whispered messages in their sleep that teach them to be content with their place in society.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
11 Mayo, 2015
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Summary
Crime and Punishment begins with the double murder of an elderly pawnbroker, Alena Ivanovna, and her younger sister, Elizabeth, by a young law student called Raskolnikoff.
LES MISÉRABLES
11 Mayo, 2015
Author: Victor Hugo
Summary
In Les Misérables, set in France in the nineteenth century, there are different stories intertwined and bound together by the life story of its main character, Jean Valjean,
OLIVER TWIST
11 Mayo, 2015
Author: Charles Dickens
Summary
Oliver Twist’s mother dies shortly after giving birth to him in a workhouse. At nine years old he goes to live with an undertaker where he is cruelly treated. He then runs away to London, where he becomes involved with a gang of child thieves, controlled by the evil Fagin. After a street robbery goes wrong, Oliver is cared for by the kindly Mr Brownlow but he soon ends up back in the grips of Fagin and his accomplice Bill Sikes.