Gabriel rated The Blockade Runners: 3 stars
The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne
The Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when …
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Gabriel rated Bartleby, the scrivener: 5 stars
Bartleby, the scrivener by Herman Melville (The art of the novella)
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, …
Gabriel rated H. G. Wells: The Time Machine: 3 stars
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales (C. Auguste Dupin, #1-3) by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. …
Gabriel rated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: 5 stars
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to …
Gabriel rated Gallatin Canyon: 5 stars
Gallatin Canyon by Thomas McGuane
Ten short stories capture the world of characters whose lives are transformed by the places surrounding them, from a boy …
Gabriel rated Last Night: 5 stars
Gabriel rated Spook Street: 5 stars
Spook Street by Mick Herron
"What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people …
Gabriel rated Real tigers: 5 stars
Gabriel rated Los vencejos: 4 stars
Gabriel rated Fjord of Killary: 5 stars
Gabriel rated Kaye Wayfaring in "Avenged": 3 stars
Gabriel rated On the Nature of Things: 5 stars
On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and …
