The Red Badge of Courage
War novel by American author Stephen Crane . Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle
Matilda
Book by British writer Roald Dahl
In Xanadu
1989 travel book by William Dalrymple.
The Selfish Gene
1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams’s Adaptation and Natural Selection . Dawkins uses the term “selfish gene” as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution , popularising ideas developed during the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton and others
The Long Loneliness
Autobiography of Dorothy Day, published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers