The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

Dave Saren has a past riddled with drugs and booze, one he’s trying hard to overcome.

His mother calls him from daydreams to go to school.

Long ago the last scientists of Atlantis engineered and programmed a dozen fish-like "babies".

Liza Casey called in to report a double homicide today.

It's been said if two or more people strongly agree on any one thing.

Love is… a reminder there is still hope in this world.

In attempting to follow his mother's instructions, a good-hearted bot always does the right thing.

Two Crows, one big and one small, count things they see from one to ten and then back down again.

Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Checkov's four major plays.

A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.

The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer.

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.

Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.

Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons.