Welcome to the distant future. Humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings - but it is far from certain that connect…
As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon.
Flaubert's most famous short work meditates on the unexamined, futile life of a servant and her beloved parrot.
This horrifying, semi-autobiographical feminist story of imprisonment and madness scandalized nineteenth-century society.
Two devastating stories of faith and sacrifice from Balzac's panorama of nineteenth-century French life.
A ghostly child roams the Northumberland moors, while fairytale characters gather at a strange party, in these two Victorian gothic tales.