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  The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe About Author: Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. Summary: This is a story about Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy, siblings who live in England during World War II. They discover a wardrobe and by entering it, they are transported to a magical world called Narnia. Narnia is ruled by the White Witch, an evil sorceress who keeps the world in eternal winter. However, a prophecy tells those four humans will take down the Witc...

  1984 by Grorge Owell About Author: Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his  pen name  George Orwell, was an English essayist, journalist and critic. As a writer, Orwell produced  literary criticism  and poetry, fiction and  polemical  journalism; and is best known for the  allegorical  novella  Animal Farm  (1945) and the  dystopian  novel  Nineteen Eighty-Four  (1949). Summary: It was a bright and cold April day, Winston Smith, a 39-year-old man, entered the houses of victory. The smell of dining flooded the place. He barely climbed the seven floors that led him to his house. On each landing, there was a very large colour poster with the huge face of a man with a big moustache and hard features at the bottom was written Big Brother watches over you, this poster was also in every street. Winston looked at the city from the window . London was cold and sad. It was par...

  Fahrenheit 451  by Ray Bradbury About Author: Ray Douglas Bradbury  (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Summary: This is a story about a man named Guy Montag who is a fireman. He's not a fireman by today's standards though. Instead of putting out fires, he starts them by burning books, which are outlawed by the government. After talking to his neighbour, Clarisse, Guy begins to question his work. He looks around and sees a wife who doesn't love him and an entire society caught up in technology and war. People kill each other every day and no one seems to care. After learning that Clarisse died, Guy further begins to question whether or not he is doing the right thing by burning books. So much so, that he steals a book before burning a lady and pile of ...

  The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald About Author : Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald   (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the  Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. Summary: This is a story about a man named Nick who is living in America in the 1920s. He moves to New York to become a bond trader and finds that he lives next to a large mansion occupied by a mysterious man named Gatsby. Gatsby has wild parties every night with lots of women and alcohol and when Nick is invited, he learns that Gatsby had also been in the army. However, no one really knows how Gatsby got rich. Nick reunites with his cousin, Daisy, a flirtatious young woman who is married to Tom, a rich businessman. However, Tom is having an affair with a mechanic's wife, Myrtle. Nick meets Daisy's friend, Jordan, a young profe...