Poor Icarus crashes and burns every time he tries to fly to the Sun. Watch as our Greek gods and heroes try to help not just Icarus but also young Odysseus, who must overcome his seasickness to become the great sea captain of legend. And Timmy the Minotaur? With no superpowers and no career opportunities atop Mount Olympus, is he destined to remain the labyrinth’s resident...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. Stepping back in time to Victorian London to join literature’s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson — as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. While originally published in...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. Stepping back in time to Victorian London to join literature’s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson — as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. While originally published in...

What can be written about this book that hasnt already been said? Orwells dystopian vision of a possible future is both astonishing and depressing. 1984 creates a fantasy world that is utterly convincing from beginning to end. With its provocative premise and surprisingly accurate predictions of a future world where totalitarianism reigns supreme, George Orwells story of...

Featured in His Last Bow, there is a collection of seven short stories, about Sherlock Holmes and his investigative prowess set in the First World War and first published between 1908 and 1917. They were published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a collection in 1917. These stories include the tales of a dead woman and her two "mad" brothers, a woman who receives a package with...

The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes in 1887 (in A Study in Scarlet) is particularly interesting in historical terms. For the first time, European cities had proliferated to the point where it was impossible to know more than a small percentage of their inhabitants, so his characters get lost in London that is the modern city of that era. A Study in Scarlet is the first...

Lawrences frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its main characters caused this controversial book, which is now considered a masterpiece, to be banned as pornography until 1960. Lady Chatterleys Lover is the final novel by English author D.H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and then in...