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The Enchanted April

Elizabeth von Arnim

The Enchanted April

First published in 1922, “The Enchanted April” by British author Elizabeth von Arnim is the story of four very different English women who spend a month vacationing together in Italy at the Tuscan Villa, San Salvatore. Each finding themselves in need of a holiday from their dreary lives back home, the four women rent an Italian castle on the Mediterranean coast and experience a reawakening in life through their shared realizations and experiences there. While the women vary widely in temperament...

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Elizabeth von Arnim

THE ENCHANTED APRIL

Elizabeth von Arnim

THE ENCHANTED APRIL

Four dissimilar women in 1920s England leave their rainy, grey environments to go on holiday in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies' club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean to be let furnished for April. They find some common ground in that both are struggling to make the best of unhappy marriages. They also reluctantly take on the waspish, elderly Mrs Fisher and...

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Elizabeth von Arnim

The Enormous Room

E. E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings

The Enormous Room

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), famously known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous paintings and drawings. He is remembered as an unsurpassed voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular, even today. Cummings attended Harvard, receiving both his bachelor's and master's by 1916. A year later, he...

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E. E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings

The Enormous Room

E.E. Cummings

The Enormous Room

One of the most important and popular American poets of the 20th century, e. e. cummings is best known for his brilliant and innovative verse and its distinctive lack of uppercase letters and conventional grammar. He was also a Cubist painter and a World War I veteran. At the age of 23, he abandoned his artistic pursuits for voluntary service as an ambulance driver in France. His military career culminated in a comedy of errors leading to his arrest and imprisonment for treason, as he memorably...

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E.E. Cummings

Die Geschichte Almansors (Ungekürzt...

Вильгельм Гауф

Die Geschichte Almansors (Ungekürzt)

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Вильгельм Гауф

Wo bleibt die Moral? (Ungekürzt)

Ксюша Ангел

Wo bleibt die Moral? (Ungekürzt)

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Ксюша Ангел

Dantons Tod

Georg Büchner

Dantons Tod

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Georg Büchner

Polaris (Unabridged)

H. P. Lovecraft

Polaris (Unabridged)

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H. P. Lovecraft

Das verbrannte Bett (Ungekürzt)

Alice Berend

Das verbrannte Bett (Ungekürzt)

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Alice Berend

Der Kindlein (Ungekürzt)

Ludwig Thoma

Der Kindlein (Ungekürzt)

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Ludwig Thoma

Das Baby (Ungekürzt)

Ludwig Thoma

Das Baby (Ungekürzt)

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Ludwig Thoma

The Eustace Diamonds

Anthony Trollope

The Eustace Diamonds

"The Eustace Diamonds" by Anthony Trollope. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible...

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Anthony Trollope

The Eustace Diamonds

Anthony Trollope

The Eustace Diamonds

The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, «The Eustace Diamonds» concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Sir Florian Eustace and quickly becomes a widow. Despite the brevity of their marriage, Lizzie still inherits according to the generous terms of Sir Florian's will, which include the Eustace diamonds. When the Eustace family solicitor, Mr. Camperdown, begins to question her legal claim to the...

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Anthony Trollope

The Forsyte Saga

John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga

Consisting of three novels and two interludes, “The Forsyte Saga” chronicles several generations of an upper middle class British family at the beginning of the twentieth century. Full of social satire, “The Man of Property” commences this fictional history and introduces the first generation of Forsytes, prominently featuring Soames and his wife Irene. Keenly aware of their nouveau riche standing and highly desirous of material possessions, Soames especially demonstrates the opposing forces of...

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John Galsworthy

The Gilded Age

Mark Twain

The Gilded Age

"The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era of political greed and corruption that followed the American Civil War. This period is often referred to as «The Gilded Age» because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the era is exemplified through two fictional narratives; one of the Hawkins family, a poor family from Tennessee who try to get the government to purchase their 75,000 acres of...

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Mark Twain

The Gods of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Gods of Mars

In Edgar Rice Burroughs’ sequel to “A Princess of Mars”, we find John Carter returning to Mars after a ten-year absence. First published serially in 1913, “The Gods of Mars” is the second volume in the “Barsoom” series. “A Princess of Mars” ended with the heroic Carter being unwillingly transported back to Earth. Having been long separated from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Martian people of Helium that he has adopted as his own, Carter struggles to return to them. However, he...

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tom Sawyers Abenteuer und Streiche...

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyers Abenteuer und Streiche (Gekürzt)

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Mark Twain

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderla...

Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (Unabridged)

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Lewis Carroll

Julchen (Ungekürzt)

Вильгельм Буш

Julchen (Ungekürzt)

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Вильгельм Буш

The Golden Bowl

Генри Джеймс

The Golden Bowl

Henry James’s 1904 novel “The Golden Bowl” is the story of Prince Amerigo, an impoverished but charismatic Italian nobleman who travels to London to marry Maggie Verver, the only child of the immensely wealthy American financier and art collector, Adam Verver. While in London, Prince Amerigo meets his former mistress, Charlotte Stant, who is Maggie’s close friend and soon to marry Maggie’s widowed father. Amerigo and the beautiful Charlotte find themselves often in each other’s company and the...

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Генри Джеймс

The Golden Scarecrow

Hugh Walpole

The Golden Scarecrow

"The Golden Scarecrow" by Hugh Walpole. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...

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Hugh Walpole

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier

Leonora and Edward Ashburnham were «good people» from England, as John Dowell, the narrator of this tale, explains: and Dowell and his wife, Florence — leisured Americans of solid stock — were, like their English friends, a «model couple.»For a dozen years, the foursome cultivated and maintained a friendship reinforced with yearly meetings at a fashionable German health resort, which Dowell visited with his «ailing» wife and the Asburnhams traveled to because of Edward's...

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Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier

First published in 1915, “The Good Soldier” is Ford Madox Ford’s tragic tale of the relationship between two couples. The first couple is English, Captain Edward Ashburnham, the good soldier referenced in the title, and his wife Leonora. The two at first have a seemingly perfect marriage but over the course of the novel is revealed that a constant series of infidelities by Edward has driven Leonora to attempt to exert increasing control over Edward’s affairs, placing great strain on their...

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Ford Madox Ford

Rikki Tikki Tavi - Das Dschungelbuc...

Редьярд Киплинг

Rikki Tikki Tavi - Das Dschungelbuch, Band 3 (Ungekürzt)

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Редьярд Киплинг

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