Classics

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit

Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames ... never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think ... and Guy Mantag suddenly realized what he had to do!

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel.  It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize.The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.

When a griffin visits the town where a statue that bears his likeness graces the front of a church, the townspeople do not offer him a warm welcome but the Minor Canon, whom the townspeople convince to host the creature, develops a relationship with him.

A beautiful, golden, jewel-studded statue and a little swallow give all they have to help the poor.