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This ebook is a collection of series of rather morbid and grotesques tales, depicting family murders and related by the murderers. The tales include: «My Favorite Murder»…a man on trial for his mother's murder also relates his uncle's «Oil Of Dog»…ghastly tale of death (not for those against the murder of animals) «An Imperfect Conflagration»…tale of a father/son burglar team's. disagreement «The Hypnotist»…a young man experiments with his hypnotic powers. Ambrose Gwinnett...
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Lyrical Ballads, two collections of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but they became and remain a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry. Most of the poems in the...
| Автор | William Wordsworth |
This eBook edition of «KAZAN, THE WOLF DOG» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than he; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered. Yet every drop of the wild blood in his splendid body was racing in a ferment of excitement that Kazan had never before...
| Автор | Джеймс Кервуд |
"First, my child, what do you want most?" asked the godmother, quite in the fairy-book style. «To be loved by everybody,» answered Becky. «Good!» said the cat. «I'm pleased with that answer, it's sensible, and I'll tell you how to get your wish. Learn to make people love you by loving them.» – «Becky's Christmas Dream» Table of Contents: Merry Christmas A Christmas Dream And How It Came True Becky's Christmas Dream Kitty's Class Day Rosa's Tale...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
This eBook edition of «The Alaskan (Western Classic)» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Captain Rifle, Grey and old in the Alaskan Steamship service, had not lost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not dead in him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and the association of strong men and a mighty country had not died out of his veins. He could still see the picturesque, feel the thrill of...
| Автор | Джеймс Кервуд |
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «THE COMPLETE SKETCH BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. (With Original Illustrations)» This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat. Table of Contents The Voyage Roscoe The Wife Rip van Winkle English Writers on America Rural Life in England The Broken...
| Автор | Washington Irving |
This carefully edited collection of «THE COLLECTED WORKS OF R. AUSTIN FREEMAN (Illustrated Edition)» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He introduced the inverted detective story; a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the...
| Автор | R. Austin Freeman |
"The Log of a Cowboy" is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana during 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's best account of cowboy life. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his time; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. The Chicago Herald has said: «As a narrative of cowboy...
| Автор | Andy Adams |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Richard Austin Freeman was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He introduced the inverted detective story; a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's...
| Автор | R. Austin Freeman |
Tarzan («…the Apeman») is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani «great apes»; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel Tarzan of the Apes (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and then in twenty-five sequels, three authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media,...
| Автор | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
A woman with a young son is abandoned by her outlawed husband in the middle of nowhere and that too amidst the Indian uprising. Excerpt: "Everything all right, Limber?" asked Allan Traynor, boss of the Diamond H ranch, as a cowboy with jingling spurs reined his pony before the closed gates of the corral. Doctor Powell, standing beside Traynor, scrutinized the rider, whose broad-brimmed Stetson, caught by the wind, flapped from his face, exposing the sun-brown skin, firm chin and grey...
| Автор | Forrestine C. Hooker |
The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic tale set in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip, who live as primeval hunter-gatherers in a heavily depopulated world. Smith, whom they call «Granser», decides to tell them the story of the disease alternately referred to as...
| Автор | Jack London |
The first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And Jo's Boys (1886)...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes complete works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sherlock Holmes is a «consulting detective» known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. The...
| Автор | Arthur Conan Doyle |
Dr. John Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical jurispractitioner – originally a medical doctor, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern parlance, forensic scientists. His solutions were based on his method of collecting all possible data (including dust and pond weed) and making inferences from them before looking at any of the protagonists and motives in the crimes. It is this method which gave rise to one of Freeman's most ingenious...
| Автор | R. Austin Freeman |
Charlie Chan is a Chinese American detective who lives on Hawaii and works for the Honolulu Police Department, but often travels around the world investigating mysteries and solving crimes. The House Without a Key – Member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaii for a number of years is murdered. The victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, could be of some assistance to detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery. The Chinese Parrot – A valuable string of pearls is...
| Автор | Earl Derr Biggers |
This eBook edition of «In a Hollow of the Hills (Western Adventure Novel)» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "It was very dark, and the wind was increasing. The last gust had been preceded by an ominous roaring down the whole mountain-side, which continued for some time after the trees in the little valley had lapsed into silence. The air was filled with a faint, cool, sodden odor, as of stirred forest depths. In...
| Автор | Bret Harte |
This unique collection of the greatest sea adventures of Jack London has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: The Cruise of the Dazzler The Sea-Wolf Adventure A Son of the Sun The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Cruise of the Snark Tales of the Fish Patrol White and Yellow The King of the Greeks A Raid on the Oyster Pirates The Siege of the «Lancashire Queen» Charley's Coup Demetrios Contos Yellow Handkerchief South Sea Tales The House of...
| Автор | Jack London |
When Judge Amidon and his son were murdered on their ranch a lot of fingers were raised in the direction of the Native Indians. In such a rising hostile environment Bess, a white orphan boy befriends How, a native Indian boy in spite of losing both his parents in the Indian war of resistance… Will Lillibridge or William Otis Lillibridge was born in Iowa into a prairie community and spent his adult life in Dakota where he worked on a ranch and had the first-hand experience of a farm life....
| Автор | Will Lillibridge |
Ein toller Krimischmöker – Alle Fälle von den CityAgents in einem Sammelband erhältlich Die City Agents – das sind Laura, Moritz, Marie und Alexander alias Lexi. Gemeinsam mit dem Vater von Laura und Moritz reisen sie in die spannendsten Städte Europas. Und egal, wo sie gerade sind, es wartet immer ein aufregender Fall auf die jungen Detektive: In London kommen sie einem Erpresser auf die Spur, in Amsterdam verfolgen sie eine Bande aus Bootsdieben. In Paris beobachten die Freunde eine...
| Автор | Insa Bauer |
Der kleine Hui Buh träumt davon, auf Schloss Burgeck zu spuken. Aber als Nachwuchsgespenst muss er das Gruseln erst noch lernen. In der Geheimzentrale für Gespenster, Hexen und andere magische Wesen bringt Lehrmeister Frederik dem kleinen Hui Buh und der Hexe Hedda Hex alles Nötige bei: Wie man sich eine lustige Riesennase hext, durch die Luft schwebt oder Dinge groß- und kleinspukt. Gar nicht so einfach! Vor allem, wenn man so vorlaut und tollpatschig ist wie Hui Buh. Aber das Gespenst hat das...
| Автор | Ulrike Rogler |
Im Zeichen des Phantastischen präsentieren Tanja Kinkel, Thomas Le Blanc, Alexander Röder, Rainer Schorm, Jörg Weigand und weitere deutsche Fantasy-Autoren in 23 mitreißenden, sowohl emotionalen als auch humorvollen Kurzgeschichten die Schauplätze Karl Mays aus vollkommen neuer Perspektive. Auf phantastischen Pfaden reitet Kara Ben Nemsi alias Old Shatterhand durch den schillernden Orient bis in den Wilden Westen und erlebt zusammen mit seinen Freunden magische Momente. Selbst dem...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Hirka steht vor der schwierigsten Frage ihres Lebens: Auf welcher Seite steht sie? Von der Außenseiterin zur bestimmenden Kraft des Schicksals mehrerer Welten und Völker Hirka ist durch die Rabenringe in die Welt der Blinden gelangt. Wie sie feststellen muss ist diese streng hierarchisch aufgebaut und regiert von der Verachtung für Schwäche. Hier gilt sie als minderwertiges Halbblut, hat als die unerwartete Nachfahrin von Graal jedoch eine Sonderstellung. Sie steht vor der schwersten Wahl...
| Автор | Siri Pettersen |
Milo ist immer schrecklich langweilig – bis er eines Tages in seinem Zimmer eine merkwürdige Schranke entdeckt. Da er gerade sowieso nichts anderes zu tun hat, schnappt er sich sein Spielzeugauto. Und ehe er sich's versieht, landet er in einer anderen Welt, in der nichts so ist, wie er es kennt. Er lernt Tack, den tickenden AufWachhund, kennen und Kackerlack, das eitle Insekt. Gemeinsam erhalten sie den Auftrag, die beiden Königreiche Wortopolis und Digitopolis wieder zu vereinen. Milo...
| Автор | Norton Juster |