- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Novella
- Era(s): 1978
Winner of the Guardian fiction prize, this novella and nine short stories describe life in a Zimbabwean township. They are about the brutalization of the individual’s mental processes, until madness, violence and despair become the normal state of affairs...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1870s
Edith Wharton’s dark view of society, the somber economics of marriage, and the powerlessness of the unwedded woman in the 1870s emerge dramatically in the tragic novel The House of Mirth. Faced with an array of wealthy suitors, New...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer’s son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin’s bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to...