In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, in order to see friends and follow bullfighting events. Hemingway’s time in Spain is most often remembered as his experiences with bullfighting, his passion often conveyed through his writing. He and his wife follow summer-long series events and witness...

For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, is attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. In his portrayal of Jordan’s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of a guerilla leader’s last stand, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and...

This collection includes plays that form the core of Schiller's creative legacy: ‘Intrigue and Love,’ ‘The Robbers,’ ‘Mary Stuart,’ and ‘William Tell.’ Besides their countless literary merits, they are interesting because, written during a time when classicism was universally triumphant, they are precursors of the legendary German Romanticism. Vivid and multifaceted characters, devoid of...

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures,...

A volunteer in the American army during World War II, who was captured by the Germans and witnessed the near-total destruction of Dresden, Vonnegut transferred this experience to the pages of his most famous novel – ‘Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade,’ in which the boundaries between present and past, peace and war, reality and fantasy, madness and sanity are blurred.

Splat loves listening to his mom's bedtime stories! And most of all, he loves stories about the incredible adventures of brave cats. He dreams of being just as brave, strong, and courageous! But Splat is still little, and he's afraid of many things. For example, yesterday he dreamed that he was a valiant knight who had to save Princess Kitty from the evil King Thorn. But in the dream, the king...