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Led by the pigs, the most clever of the animals, the farm is renamed and the beasts set about running their world for their own benefit.\n\nBut power reshapes those who hold it. As the ambitious boar Napoleon consolidates control, the founding ideals are quietly rewritten, dissent is punished, and the promises of the revolution curdle into a tyranny that looks unsettlingly like the one it replaced. The other animals, loyal and hardworking, struggle to remember how things were meant to be.\n\nGeorge Orwell's short, savage fable uses a barnyard uprising to trace how revolutions are betrayed, how language is bent to serve power, and how easily the many can be ruled by the few. 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His wish is granted. As Dorian, encouraged by the cynical, epigram-spouting Lord Henry Wotton, gives himself over to a life of pleasure, cruelty, and corruption, his face remains untouched — while the portrait, hidden away, grows monstrous with every sin.\n\nOscar Wilde's only novel is a dark fable of aestheticism, vanity, and moral consequence, as sharp in its wit as it is unsettling in its horror. Around Dorian's unchanging beauty, Wilde builds a Faustian parable about the cost of a life lived purely for sensation, and a portrait of Victorian society's obsession with surface and youth.\n\nFirst published in 1890 and expanded the following year, the book scandalised its first readers and remains one of the most enduring works of Gothic and philosophical fiction in English.","https:\u002F\u002Fcovers.openlibrary.org\u002Fb\u002Fid\u002F15156805-L.jpg","L06a#84:01%20500~l_1?I02~T-:",1890,"4.55",320,[963,967],{"id":964,"slug":965,"name":966},"01kjqtyw338nszf68q3cd3wx0q","oscar-wilde-e6uf","Oscar Wilde",{"id":968,"slug":969,"name":970},"01km6s1x9ssy8cykv6n0qy1by3","jennifer-wicke-skbg","Jennifer Wicke",[972,973,977,978,979,980,981,982],{"id":295,"name":381,"slug":382,"is_fiction":19},{"id":974,"name":975,"slug":976,"is_fiction":18},79,"Education","education",{"id":339,"name":340,"slug":341,"is_fiction":18},{"id":42,"name":43,"slug":44,"is_fiction":19},{"id":46,"name":47,"slug":48,"is_fiction":19},{"id":310,"name":311,"slug":312,"is_fiction":19},{"id":716,"name":717,"slug":718,"is_fiction":18},{"id":95,"name":194,"slug":195,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":138,"complexity":7,"audience":96,"mood":985,"themes":986,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[140,356],[],{"id":988,"slug":989,"title":990,"description":991,"primary_cover_url":992,"cover_blurhash":993,"first_publish_year":994,"community_rating_avg":995,"community_rating_count":42,"page_count":996,"authors":997,"genres":1002,"series":1013,"enrichment":1017},"01kjq7cmey2gczvhsq50rk54yq","fahrenheit-451-xroi","Fahrenheit 451","In a future America, firemen do not put out fires—they start them. 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Decades after publication it remains one of the most widely read and debated novels about the value of books and the cost of their loss.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kjq7cmgpttgygq4tspg6rp8p.jpg","LAQ9M+?w^HR3L}m*S1SjIQ9EDj?v",1953,"3.30",231,[998],{"id":999,"slug":1000,"name":1001},"01kjq7cmf58hz75w0429j12vr0","ray-bradbury-snol","Ray Bradbury",[1003,1004,1005,1006,1007,1008,1009],{"id":304,"name":305,"slug":306,"is_fiction":19},{"id":974,"name":975,"slug":976,"is_fiction":18},{"id":908,"name":909,"slug":910,"is_fiction":19},{"id":873,"name":874,"slug":875,"is_fiction":19},{"id":310,"name":311,"slug":312,"is_fiction":19},{"id":42,"name":43,"slug":44,"is_fiction":19},{"id":1010,"name":1011,"slug":1012,"is_fiction":19},203,"Social Sci-Fi","social-sci-fi",[1014],{"id":1015,"slug":1016,"name":990,"position":254,"is_main_entry":19,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kmrw84sm973e379drn8vadgc","fahrenheit-451-beqa",{"pace":138,"complexity":7,"audience":96,"mood":1018,"themes":1019,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[140,356,202],[],[1021],{"id":1022,"slug":1023,"title":1024,"user":7,"work_id":4,"is_draft":18,"verified_reader":18,"featured":18,"body":1025,"overall_rating":448,"depth":7,"momentum":7,"atmosphere":7,"craft":7,"impact":7,"spice":7,"spoiler_level":1026,"locale":7,"feed_item_key":1027,"like_count":14,"comment_count":14,"top_likers":1028,"viewer_can_reply":18,"created_at":1029,"updated_at":1029},"01kr82wj2eeeetjp7hnvpqxemf","review-of-things-remembered-and-things-forgotten-by-deleted-258","Review of \"Things Remembered and Things Forgotten\" by deleted_258","Dearly love all the 10 stories in here as it was so delicately written with combination of themes that I favoured; from historical backdrop to magical realism setting, of lifestyle and culture, stories on friendship, love and an engrossing family bond narrative that giving me both surreal and a comfort aftermath.\n\nI love how each story was tied in the same nuances having those nostalgic reminiscing of the past through the character's recollection of memories and personal musings (I love When My Wife Was A Shiitake-- this has won a literary award previously, The Harajuku House and The Last Obon stories the most for this). Descriptive and whimsically narrated with an unexpected twist or uncanny incident that somehow leaving me with a delightful surprise-- that plot twist for Things Remembered and Things Forgotten was so unforeseen but I love it the most along with the end twist for Kirara's Paper Plane and Childhood Friends.\n\nThe characters were my most fav part of this collection as I think the author managed to fascinate me with their life-like and bizarre behaviours adding such wit and wonder-- Kenta the ghost protagonist from Kirara's Paper Plane, the three sisters from both Global Positioning System and The Last Obon, even that scandalous sewing machine in The Lifestory of A Sewing Machine gets me enthralled. Few stories having a gripping perspective from an older character highlighting on grief and their forgetfulness-- quite riveting and bit heartwrenching too. An ambiguous narrative for A Special Day, The Harajuku House and The Pet Civet yet I still enjoyed these stories a lot because the absurdities were too tempting.\n\nGiving 5 startling stars to this collection!","none","rv-01kr82wj2eeeetjp7hnvpqxemf",[],"2026-05-10T04:38:49.000000Z"]