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"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of thirteen detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. Contained within this collection are the following tales: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, The Adventure of the Priory School, The Adventure of Black Peter, The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, The Adventure of the...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
All of author Joseph Conrad's works have an air of loneliness and isolation within the plot. This is now thought to be reflective of the author's life as a Polish immigrant living and writing at the height of the British Empire. His prose strikes a chord that resonates deep within the reader, leaving a feeling of immense despondency. Yet with his deep affinity for the melancholy, Conrad was also a highly skilled prose writer. His words allow the reader to become lost in whatever world...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
“The Secret Sharer and Other Stories” is a collection of seafaring tales by famed author Joseph Conrad. In “The Secret Sharer”, a nameless captain discovers a stow-away clinging to the side of his ship and secretly brings him aboard and harbors him in his cabin. In “Typhoon”, the main character, Captain MacWhirr, decides to sail his vessel through a typhoon in the South Pacific. His bold action, at first to the protest of his crew, later earns him their admiration and respect. In “The Nigger of...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
This is the story of an actual event that occurred with the U.S. Border Patrol and the Riverside Sheriff's department. It discloses the events that followed a failure to yield and ensuing high speed pursuit that caused international complaints regarding the harsh treatment of illegal aliens from Mexico. The investigation uncovered a smuggling organization that claimed none of its smuggler/drivers would ever yield to police.
| Автор | Larry Rios |
Part excoriation, part lamentation, 'Young Love' unspools the psyche of a man ill at ease with modernity, "that festering malignancy." Satirical, compulsive and deeply provocative, it announces the arrival of David Roberts, a powerful new literary voice.
| Автор | David Roberts |
One of the fathers of Realism was the famed 19th century French writer Honore de Balzac. His works are best known for their shrewd, yet honest, interpretation of real life problems within the social classes of French society. He believed that explaining a character would not inform the reader about the character's personality; however, describing their home, possessions, and other details would tell the reader about the character's true nature. With that in mind, he wanted to mold his...
| Автор | Оноре Бальзак |
"The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac. 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...
| Автор | Оноре Бальзак |
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own...
| Автор | Anton Chekhov |
Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov и др.
YEVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hundred acres of land from Madame Kuvshinnikov, a general's widow, was standing in a corner before a copper washing-stand, washing his hands. As usual, his face looked anxious and ill-humoured, and his beard was uncombed.<br><br>"What weather!" he said. "It's not weather, but a curse laid upon us. It's raining...
| Автор | Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov и др. |
The history of the marijuana movement is filled with great characters – daredevils, risk-takers and kids who grew green thumbs and learned how to grow; as well as martyrs who went to prison for freeing the weed. These are some of their stories.<br /><br />Ganja Tales: Author revives and expands his marijuana classic from 2000, for the cannabis culture today. There's little comedy in these twelve dramatic short stories that everyone can relate to.
| Автор | Craig Pugh |
The story Jerome Searing, a brave, intelligent and deadly marksmen and how he risks all to close on the enemy. One of Bierce's finest short stories.
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own...
| Автор | Anton Chekhov |
Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov и др.
IN the village of Reybuzh, just facing the church, stands a two-storeyed house with a stone foundation and an iron roof. In the lower storey the owner himself, Filip Ivanov Kashin, nicknamed Dyudya, lives with his family, and on the upper floor, where it is apt to be very hot in summer and very cold in winter, they put up government officials, merchants, or landowners, who chance to be travelling that way. Dyudya rents some bits of land, keeps a tavern on the highroad, does a trade in tar,...
| Автор | Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov и др. |
The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health. The story also has been classified as Gothic fiction and horror fiction. The story is written as a collection of first person journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house that he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has...
| Автор | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Мы знаем Диану Арбенину – поэта. Знаем Арбенину – музыканта. За драйвом мы бежим на электрические концерты «Ночных Снайперов»; заполняем залы, где на сцене только она, гитара и микрофон. Настоящее соло. Пронзительное и по-снайперски бескомпромиссное. Настало время узнать Арбенину – прозаика. Это новый, и тоже сольный проект. Пора остаться наедине с артистом, не скованным ни рифмой, ни нотами. Диана Арбенина остается «снайпером» и здесь – ни одного выстрела в молоко. Ее проза хлесткая, жесткая,...
| Автор | Диана Арбенина |
One of the classic short stories based around the American Civil War. A story of a man joining a conflict because of betrayal and finding no safe place to hide in the horror of war.
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
A story of how a straight forward order can come to haunt an officer who did not question enough.
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
Born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London is one of the most well-known and beloved of all American authors, as well as one of the first Americans to become world famous and wealthy from his literary career. London lived a colorful and adventurous life as a young man, working as a sailor and then living as a hobo, all before starting high school. After dropping out of college at Berkeley, London joined the Klondike Gold Rush, an experience which would form the basis of many of his...
| Автор | Jack London |
"To Build a Fire and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of Jack London's most loved short stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: To The Man On The Trail, The White Silence, In A Far Country, The Wisdom Of The Trail, An Odyssey Of The North, The Law Of Life, The God Of His Fathers, Bâtard, The League Of The Old Men, Love Of Life, The Wit Of Porportuk, To Build A Fire, All Gold Canyon, The Apostate, South Of The Slot, The Chinago, A Piece Of Steak,...
| Автор | Jack London |
This ebook is a compilation of short stories written by author Sherwood Anderson and published in 1921. It includes some of his greatest works: «The Egg,» a story about the struggle to find success and happiness in the American Midwest, «I'm a Fool,» about a young man who sabotages his chance at love because of his own feelings of inferiority, and «I Want to Know Why,» about the confusion and desperation felt by a boy entering adulthood. Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories is highly...
| Автор | Sherwood Anderson |
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was a novelist and short story writer who has been recognized as one of the most innovative and important American authors of his time. He was a prolific writer, publishing seven novels and myriad collections of essays, memoirs, poetry and short stories. Anderson wrote in a characteristically simple prose style, and his unconventional techniques caused him to at first be written off. However, his unique exploration of the unconscious and its effect on behavior...
| Автор | Sherwood Anderson |