Franz Kafka’s The Hunger Artist (1922) is an evocative short story that explores issues of alienation, art and the fruitlessness of public validation. The story tells of a starvation artist who starves day after day in order to demonstrate for an audience. Once renowned, his art loses popularity as public demand shifts to more spectacular … Read more
A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London’s first novel, blending adventure, romance, and rugged frontier spirit in the harsh landscape of the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. The story follows Frona Welse, a strong-willed, independent woman raised in the wilderness, who embodies both the grace of high society and the survival instincts of the North. When … Read more
White Nights (1848) is a moving short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores the theme of loneliness, unrequited love and ephemeral human connections. Set in St. Petersburg city during the city’s otherworldly “white nights” (summer nights of twilight), the story focuses on a solitary, dreamy character (“The Dreamer”) who bumps into a young woman, named … Read more
As You Like It is a historical pastoral comedy written by William Shakespeare around 1599. The play is the story of Rosalind, the daughters of a duke who is exiled from her uncle’s court. Disguised as a young man named Ganymede, she elopes to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Galia and the court … Read more
Bram Stoker‘s Dracula, first published in 1897, is a Gothic horror novel that has become a cornerstone of the vampire literature. The story is told in a series of letters, diary entries and journal articles, forming an epistolary narrative. It follows the journey of Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer who travels to Transylvania to … Read more