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American writer Robert E. Howard created his famous fictional hero Conan the Barbarian in 1932. This character attracts with his strength, intelligence, wit, and lust for life.

The animals on a farm rebelled against Mr. Jones, the farmer, and created an independent «animal farm.» But, having seized power, the leaders of the uprising immediately forgot about the declared rules of a future happy life. In an allegorical form, the transformation of revolutionary principles and programs, the gradual transition from utopian ideas of universal equality to dictatorship and totalitarianism is depicted. The most famous quote «All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,» as well as Animal Farm novella itself, has not lost its relevance.

The heroine of Sanditon, Charlotte Heywood, the eldest daughter in a large family of a country gentleman from Willingden in Sussex, accidentally meets the Parker family from the town of Sanditon. The new friends invite the girlto stay with them for the summer and share ambitious plans to turn Sanditon into a fashionable seaside resort.

Burmese Days is the first novel by the British writer George Orwell (1903–1950).

The story Battle of Life by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812–1870) is about love and sacrifice. Two sisters live happily in an English village. Marion, the younger sister, is engaged to Alfred Heathfield, who is leaving the village to complete his studies. However, on the day Alfred is to return and marry Marion, it turns out that the bride has run away.

Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, the heroine of the story, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated than her sisters. However, after her aunt contracted a marriage, Emma has been obliged to return to her father’s house. She is chagrined by the reckless husband-hunting of her older sisters, Penelope and Margaret. Emma meets the Watsons’ neighbors, Lord Osborne and Mr. Howard.

A Shilling for Candles is a gripping detective story by British writer Josephine Tey (1896–1952).
Film star Christine Clay is found dead on a beach in Kent. The evidence points to murder. Inspector Alan Grant quickly identifies the suspect, Robert Tisdall, whom the victim included in her last will and testament the day before. Grant is about to arrest Tisdall, but the man disappears. However, for some reason, Inspector Grant begins to doubt that the case is so obvious.

Anne’s House of Dreams is a novel by the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), which is a sequel of the book series about Anne Shirley.

Mrs. Dalloway is the novel by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941). It is a masterpiece of the “golden age” of English modernism.