Fiction Genres

رواية مؤثرة تقدم تأويلًا مباشرًا يقوم على كبسة زر للمذاق المرير للحياة اليومية، مطعمة بروح السخرية والمفارقة بصورة لا تضاهى، إنها قصة جيل كامل من العرب الذين دمرت حياتهم الإيديولوجيات التي هيمنت على السياسة العربية. تتضمن الرواية أيضًا حسًا فكاهيًا وروح دعابة متميزين ومقدرة غير عادية للكاتب على خلق عالم داخلي، فهي تروي قصة حكواتي لا مقدسات لديه، ينتهي به الأمر في باريس، مواصلًا حياته بين البارات ومحطات المترو، حالمًا بكتابة سيناريو عن والده الفران الأصم الأبكم، ولكنه بدلًا من ذلك يكتب نصًا…

  صور الجاحظ في كتابه البخلاء الذين قابلهم وتعرفهم في بيئته الخاصة خاصة في بلدة مرو عاصمة خراسان ، وقد صور الجاحظ البخلاء تصويراً واقعياً حسياً نفسياً فكاهياً ، فأبرز لنا حركاتهم ونظراتهم القلقة أو المطمئنة ونزواتهم النفسية، وفضح أسرارهم وخفايا منازلهم واطلعنا على مختلف أحاديثهم، وأرانا نفسياتهم وأحوالهم جميعاً، ولكنه لا يكرهنا بهم لأنه لا يترك لهم أثراً سيئاً في نفوسنا.ـ وقصص الكتاب مواقف هزلية تربوية قصيرة وقد عرض الكتاب بأسلوب…

Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid Sofia Andreyevna – as he struggles to find his place in society and “become a Rothschild” against the background of 1870s Russia, a nation still tethered to its old systems and values but shaken…

Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks on an exhilarating journey through France and Italy, only to find her endeavours thwarted by the sinister plotting of…

Rodion Raskolnikov is a handsome, yet impoverished student. Morally conflicted, he believes that extraordinary men who contribute much to society by their thinking are above the law, and in order to prove his theory, he decides to murder a grasping old money lender and, through unforeseen circumstances, her sister. Unexpectedly filled with remorse, Raskolnikov is caught in a moral dilemma: while he believes he can get away with the perfect murder, he also finds his conscience challenged by…

Professor Otto Lidenbrock's great adventure begins by chance when a scrap of paper drops out of an ancient book he has just bought. The coded inscription reveals the existence of a passageway leading to the centre of the earth and that the entrance lies within the crater of an extinct volcano in Iceland. The professor travels to Iceland accompanied by his nephew, Axel, a keen young geologist. Together with a Swiss guide, they descend into the bowels of the earth where an amazing prehistoric…

Oliver Twist sent out shock waves when it appeared in 1838. With a half-starved orphan for a hero, it was Dickens' first attempt to rouse the public conscience over the social evils of the day. The adventures of the innocent Oliver - from workhouse to London's underworld, and how he was rescued - is one of Dickens' most popular stories.

First published in 1813, "Pride and Prejudice," Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners - one of the most popular novels of all time - tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins the novel, that features splendidly civilized sparring…