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 A selection of novels, both classic and contemporary, of great literary value yet easy to read, that can help us rediscover the pleasure of immersing ourselves in a great story, even if we have little time available, allowing us to finish the book without unwanted pauses or interruptions...

1. Morella by Edgar Allan Poe.
2. A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle.
3. The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens.
4. The Man Who Could Imitate a Bee by Richard Connell.
5. Agafya by Anton Chekhov.
6. The Law’s an Ass by Richard Connell.
7. The Coils of Chance by Richard Connell.
8. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell.
9. The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov.
10. The Outrage by Aleksandr I. Kuprin.
11. The Unexpected by Jack London.
12. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
13. Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft.
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  • 32. Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft.

    32. Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft.
    Jan 1 2026
    32. Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft.
    A man, newly arrived in New York, learns that a reclusive doctor lives in the apartment above his own. While suffering a heart attack, he is taken to the doctor’s door, and soon becomes friends with the bizarre and isolated man who claims he must live in a refrigerated environment for his health. But as the man spends more time with the doctor, he begins to understand the horrifying truth about his friend’s strange medical condition.



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    21 min
  • 31. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

    31. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
    Jan 1 2026
    31. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
    The Tell-Tale Heart was first published in 1843 and is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allen Poe. It was then subsequently published as part of Poe’s Book – Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
    The story is told by an unnamed narrator that tries to convince the reader that he is not mad but provoked and haunted by the ‘evil’ eye of the old man, taunted almost, and to rid himself of the eye, he must murder the old man that he loved very much. It follows him as he walks us through his calculated and cunning plan to commit the murder, all while declaring his sanity.
    What I really like about Poe’s works, is that you can expect his narrators to be unreliable, making the reader unable to really know whether to trust him or not. In this case, the narrator is trying to mask his true intentions and feelings by his attempt to prove his sanity by exercising dissimulation. What’s to say he isn’t using dissimulation on us too?
    What I think is both a strength and weakness of The Tell-Tale Heart is Poe’s style of writing, it can be quite maddening, with his short sentences leave me with questions as to the meaning, and his longer sentences are precisely worded and descriptive. It is so carefully worded, which highlights Poe’s exquisite talent as a writer, that it highlights the angle of the narrator’s chaotic mind.

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    14 min
  • 30. The Unexpected by Jack London. (Part 2).

    30. The Unexpected by Jack London. (Part 2).
    Jan 1 2026
    30. The Unexpected by Jack London. (Part 2).
    The Unexpected is true to its name, full of twists and turns. But these surprises don’t just come in the form of dramatic plot events, they also come in an unexpected change of tone. Because, while in the beginning, the story seems set to become a thriller, it instead becomes a literary piece on morality and willpower.
    This is the best of Jack London using hardship to test his protagonist. Rather than the central tension revolving around the protagonist fighting her adversity, it revolves around her struggle to keep to her morals while doing so. She makes an ethical decision to do something the right way, despite everything pushing her to take the easy way out. It’s interesting, perhaps not very surprising, that this narrative choice would occur in one of the very few stories of the earliest 20th century with a female protagonist.
    Similar to Jack London’s survival adventures such as To Build a Fire and Love of Life, the story is filled with exhaustion, hunger, cold and pain. But in The Unexpected, it mostly takes place inside of a cabin with the forces behind the suffering, rather than being wind, snow, and sickness; being other people.
    The unexpected pushes forward an idea that life should be a struggle. As tumultuous and traumatising as the protagonist Edith’s life is shown to be, the introduction philosophises that it is a much more human, much more worthwhile life to lead than one of complacency.
    But the ending paints no clear picture, with no sign of heroic triumph or a return to safety. Life goes on, it seems to say. Whether you like it or not.



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