ავტორი: Daniel Defoe   Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God.

Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier then ever... Animal Farm is Orwell's timless and timely allegorical novel - a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.

ავტორი: Virginia Woolf   "A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, the first two colleges for women at Cambridge. Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular, in this famous essay, which asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she has to write. Woolf suggests that great minds are androgynous. Her essay is generally seen as a feminist text and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. It examines whether women were capable of producing, and in fact free to produce, work of the quality of William Shakespeare, addressing the limitations that past and present women writers face. The essay, written in lively, graceful prose, displays the same impressive descriptive powers evident in Woolf’s novels and reflects her compelling conversational style.

ავტორი: Ann Bronte   AGNES GREY is the debut novel of English author Anne Bronte, first published in 1947. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Bronte suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Bronte's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young women. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy.

ავტორი: დათო ტურაშვილი; Dato Turashvili სერია: Georgian Fiction “American Fairy-Tales” tells us a story about a distant country, where the author Dato Turashvili spent hundred days on an international literary program. Despite the fact that the book is based on a documentary facts, it is difficult to tell where reality ends and fiction begins. Therefore, “American Fairy-Tales” is both a short novel and a story told as a fairy tale, since, according to the author, America itself is in between the fairy tale and reality.

ავტორი: James Joyce   Dubliners is a collection of vignettes of Dublin life at the end of the 19th Century written, by Joyce’s own admission, in a manner that captures some of the unhappiest moments of life. Some of the dominant themes include lost innocence, missed opportunities and an inability to escape one’s circumstances. Joyce’s intention in writing Dubliners, in his own words, was to write a chapter of the moral history of his country, and he chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to him to be the centre of paralysis. He tried to present the stories under four different aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life.

წიგნში შესულია ფრანც კაფკას სამი ნაწარმოები გერმანულ ენაზე: გარდასახვა; დაკვირვება; პროცესი Die Verwandlung Die Betrachtung Der Prozeß

Translated from the Georgian by PJ Hillery   Jemal Karchkhadze (1936-1998), Georgian writer. He is the author of six novels and numerous short stories. Jemal Karchkhadze’s first published works were embraced by the public, but met with harsh criticism from the Soviet censorship of the time. He nonetheless continued to write and regularly published his nonconformist works. Igi is a modern bestseller novella by Jemal Karchkhadze. The story is a unique reconstruction of the prehistoric era, depicting the perception, contemplation, and inspiration of the first humans. The story is interwoven with the eternal theme of the individual versus society and the individual. Written in short, archaic stream of thought, this beautiful novella is an intellectual-aesthetic gem of modern Georgian literature.

ავტორი: Jane Austen   A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is a satire of Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naive young protagonist, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art. Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.

ავტორი: Jane Austen  

ავტორი:  Mark Twain     A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.

ავტორი: Mark Twain   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Mississippi River. St. Petersburg is described as a typical small-town atmosphere where the Christian faith is predominant, the social network is close-knit, and familiarity resides. Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives "lickings" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale." As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

ავტორი: Leah Nata The political turmoil of the 1990s in Georgia compels Liza Adamia,15, to relocate to England in pursuit of a better future.To escape her thorny life, Liza seeks solace in the world of books, where the outside fades away,allowing her to lose herself in the flow of time and surroundings.As an ardent reader,she decides to study British Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester,where she encounters Daniel Davis,an enthusiastic writer who sparks the love that faces adversities.

ავტორი: ნათო ყიფიანი „მოგონებების ტყე“ ახალგაზრდა ქართველი მწერლის, ნათო ყიფიანის სადებიუტო რომენია, ინგლისურად დაწერილი. ეს არის ამბავი განშორებაზე, სინდისის ქენჯნაზე და ხელახლა შეხვედრაზე. ავტორი ბრწყინვალედ და ნათლად გვიხატავს მთავარი გმირის, დილანის თუ გენჯის ემოციურ ბრძოლას საკუთარ თავთან. გენჯიმ ბავშვობა იაპონიის სამხრეთ სოფელში გაატარა მეზობელ ბიჭთან, უახლოეს მეგობართან, აიუმუსთან ერთად, მაგრამ საშინელი ტრაგედიის გამო იძულებული ხდება ქვეყნიდან წავიდეს. გენჯი იმ დღიდან დატყვევებულია მოგონებების ტყეში და თითქოს გამოსავალი არ ჩანს“, – იასუჰირო კოჯიმა. "The Forest of Memories" is the debut novel of young Georgian writer Nato Kipiani, written in English. It is the story about loss, remorse and renunion. The author brilliantly and vividly describes the emotional struggle of Dylan or Genji, the protagonist, who spent his childhood in a village in southern Japan together with a neighbour boy Ayumu, his closest friend, but left there to another country after a painful tragedy of his life. Since then, he has been captured in the forest of memories with apparently no way out", – Yasuhiro Kojima

ავტორი: Conan Doyle In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life. The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs.

ავტორი: James Fenimore Cooper   The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery of the renegade brave Magua, the ambush of innocent settlers, and the thrilling events that lead to the final tragic confrontation between rival war parties create an unforgettable, spine-tingling picture of life on the frontier. And as the idyllic wilderness gives way to the forces of civilization, the novel presents a moving portrayal of a vanishing race and the end of its way of life in the great American forests.

ავტორი: ლაშა ბუღაძე; Bugadze Lasha; სერია: Georgian Fiction The novel is about literature and writers, more precisely, about unknown and mediocre authors travelling together. A literary association has invited authors of various nationalities to a seminar and the narrative follows their train journey through Europe on the Literature Express, a train specially chartered for the occasion. The novel describes the self-absorption of the authors and their inability to communicate with one another. They are portrayed as inward-looking and largely disinterested in their fellow travelers’ work. The novel is therefore a reflection on literature and the unsuccessful author. The main character of the story is a Georgian author. At the heart of the novel lies the love story between him and his Polish translator’s wife. However, their romance is as unsuccessful as the protagonist’s attempts at literary success. At the end of the fascinating voyage through Europe, we find out that all authors participating in the seminar are writing their new books on the Literature Express. Let’s see how the Georgian author will fare.  

ავტორი: ლაშა ბუღაძე; Lasha Bugadze სერია: Georgian Fiction Lasha Bugadze’s play is a tragicomedy about loneliness and alienation. The narrative of the radio play is highly dynamic while the drama takes a somewhat absurd turn, which has a deep impact on listeners and readers. In 2011 the play won the Best Radio Play award in the First Language Category at the competition held by the BBC and the British Council. The same year the play was recorded by the British actors and aired by the BBC.

ავტორი: Charlotte Bronte   The other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter, sent by me a year since to an old school acquaintance:—“DEAR CHARLES, “I think when you and I were at Eton together, we were neither of us what could be called popular characters: you were a sarcastic, observant, shrewd, cold-blooded creature; my own portrait I will not attempt to draw, but I cannot recollect that it was a strikingly attractive one—can you? What animal magnetism drew thee and me together I know not; certainly I never experienced anything of the Pylades and Orestes sentiment for you, and I have reason to believe that you, on your part, were equally free from all romantic regard to me. Still, out of school hours we walked and talked continually together; when the theme of conversation was our companions or our masters we understood each other, and when I recurred to some sentiment of affection, some vague love of an excellent or beautiful object, whether in animate or inanimate nature, your sardonic coldness did not move me. I felt myself superior to that check THEN as I do NOW. “It is a long time since I wrote to you, and a still longer time since I saw you. Chancing to take up anewspaper of your county the other day, my eye fell upon your name. I began to think of old times; to runover the events which have transpired since we separated; and I sat down and commenced this letter. What you have been doing I know not; but you shall hear, if you choose to listen, how the world has wagged with me.

ავტორი: nathaniel hawthorne   Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

ავტორი: Charles Dikens A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.

ავტორი: Emily Brontë   Emily was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1824, the family moved to Haworth, where Emily's father was perpetual curate, and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flourished. In childhood, after the death of their mother, the three sisters and their brother Patrick Branwell Brontë created imaginary lands (Angria, Gondal, Gaaldine, Oceania), which were featured in stories they wrote. Little of Emily's work from this period survived, except for poems spoken by characters (The Brontës' Web of Childhood, Fannie Ratchford, 1941). In 1842, Emily commenced work as a governess at Miss Patchett's Ladies Academy at Law Hill School, near Halifax, leaving after about six months due to homesickness. Later, with her sister Charlotte, she attended a private school in Brussels. They later tried to open up a school at their home, but had no pupils. It was the discovery of Emily's poetic talent by Charlotte that led her and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, to publish a joint collection of their poetry in 1846, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the first letter of their first names: Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell, and Emily became Ellis Bell. In 1847, she published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, as two volumes of a three volume set (the last volume being Agnes Grey by her sister Anne). Its innovative structure somewhat puzzled critics. Although it received mixed reviews when it first came out, the book subsequently became an English literary classic. In 1850, Charlotte edited and published Wuthering Heights as a stand-alone novel and under Emily's real name.

ავტორი: დათო ტურაშვილი; Дато Турашвили; სერია: Georgian Fiction «Американские сказки» повествуют нам о далекой стране, в которой Дато Турашвили провел сто дней по международной литературной программе. Несмотря на то, что книга, на первый взгляд, построена на документальном материале, в ней трудно уловить, где кончается реальность и начинается вымысел. Поэтому «Американские сказки» – это одновременно и небольшой роман, и история, рассказанная как сказка, поскольку по словам автора, в Америке почти отсутствует грань между сказкой и реальностью.