The World of Books

Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a delightful novel and surely one of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century. It is a book with a history – a previously banned book. It was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928 due to the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its [...]

After fictionalizing elements of the Patty Hearst kidnapping for her second novel (the 2004 Pulitzer finalist American Woman: A Novel), here Choi combines elements of the Wen Ho Lee accusations and the Unabomber case to create a haunting meditation on the myriad forms of alienation.
The suggestively named Lee, as he’s called throughout, is a solitary [...]

Jeffrey Archer, the somewhat controversial British master storyteller, whose novels and short stories have topped the bestseller lists around the world, and with sales of more than 135 million copies, has just published a new novel. This one, Paths of Glory, is different from other books Archer has written – it is a novel based [...]

“When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.” This is how The Almost Moon begins.
Helen Knightly kills her own mother. Her mother is elderly, weak, has been sick for a long time, and now she has pooped in her pants. Helen sets out to clean her, but ends up killing her instead.
Thus [...]

In Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer tells the story of two men, one Polish, an illegitimate son of a gypsy, the other rich and privileged from a wealthy Boston banking family. Abel Rosnovski survives countless setbacks, emigrates to the US and builds a thriving hotel chain. William Kane [...]

Jeffrey Archer is back with one of his best books ever! In Prisoner at Birth he toys with the theme of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo.
Danny Cartwright proposes to his beloved Beth Wilson who accepts. The pair and her brother Bernie, who is also his best friend, celebrate. Four drunks (Spencer Craig, Lawrence [...]

No Country for Old Men is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 2005. In 2007 it was released as a film, directed by the Cohen-brothers. The film has, so far, been winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The action in the book is set along the United States–Mexico [...]