Articles on books of the MoneyMuseum.

It’s the high school reunion of your worst nightmares. A newly rich billionaire returns to the small town of her childhood and presents the townsfolk with an ultimatum: Either they kill one of their own or the old lady will financially ruin the town.

Two things Joseph Conrad equally loved equally were being at sea and writing. Based on his own experiences, he tells stories of far-away islands, typhoons, the impenetrable African jungle, steamship expeditions on the Congo river, and mutinies at sea.

Going on pilgrimage is a pious enterprise but, let’s be honest, also a boring one. To combat the boredom, the travelers in Geoffrey Chaucer’s monumental work launch a storytelling competition. Who tells the most entertaining story? Nun, knight, or doctor?

What’s the price for a human life? How much would it take for you to go to war? The biography of the Swiss farmer Ulrich Bräker shows: Human life was cheap during the Seven Years’ War – just like the mercenaries’ pay.

The opposite of love is not hate but indifference – as Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights shows. Because their love cannot be, two lovers destroy each other until the bitter end, in this depressing but beautifully atmospheric novel.